Monday, December 11, 2023

Johann Gerhard (Lutheran [1625]) on Enoch "Prophesying" in Jude

  

Jude, however, does not say that Enoch wrote, only that he prophesied. This could have occurred through oral preaching, and Jude could have had this prophecy of Enoch by a sure tradition, just as Paul had the names of the magicians Jannes and Jambres (2 Tim. 3:8). (Johann Gerhard, On the Nature of Theology and on Scripture [trans. Richard J. Dinda; Saint Louis, Miss.: Concordia Publishing House, 2009], 43)