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ENOCH (ipaq, niq, Han6kh, Teaching or Dedication), (i) In Gen. iv. 17, 18 (J), the eldest son of Cain, born while Cain was building a city, which he named after Enoch ; nothing is known of the city. (2) In Gen. v. 24, &c. (P), seventh in descent from Adam in t ...

EPOCH (Gr. tirox^, holding in suspense, a pause, from lirixtw, to hold up, to stop), a term for a stated period of time, and so used of a date accepted as the starting-point of an era or of a new period in chronology, such as the birth of Christ. It is hence t

... s, yet in the rude adaptation of Ennius the secret of what ultimately ENNODIUS— ENOCH became one of the grandest organs of literary expression was first discovered and revealed. The inspiring idea of the poem was accepted, purified of all alien material, and r ...

... entence. (2) The final remains in God's hands; but in one writing (the Ethiopic Enoch) is represented as Messiah's function. This judgment either closes the Messianic age, if thought of as temporal, or ushers it in, if conceived as eternal, or closes the world ...

... nical books Maccabees, Tobil, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasiicus, Baruch, Jubilees, Enoch, the Ascension of Isaiah, Ezra IV., Shepherd of Hermas, the Synodos (Canons of the Apostles), the Book of Adam, and Joseph Ben Gorion. For the distinction between canonical a ...

... element in Jewish Messianic — it certainly occurs in one portion of the Book of Enoch and in 4 Ezra1 — and chat Paul merely transferred to Jesus a doctrine which he had held while still in the Jews' religion. "Son of God" might seem to carry us further still; ...