Friday, September 19, 2025

Matthew Poole on the Use of 1 Enoch in Jude

  

Prophesied; he doth not say wrote, and therefore from hence it cannot be proved that there was any such book as Enoch’s prophecies, received by the Jews as canonical Scripture; but rather some prophecy of his delivered to them by tradition, to which here the apostle refers, as a thing known among them; and so argues against these heretics from their own concession, as ver. 9. (Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, 3 vols. [New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1853], 9:946)

 

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