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Enoch (ē`nək), in the Bible. 1 Son for whom Cain named the city he built. 2 Father of Methuselah. It was said of him that he walked with God—a phrase used also of Noah—and also that like Elijah he was translated to heaven. An alternate form is Henoch. Enoch Old Testament 1. the eldest son of Cain after whom the first city was named (Genesis 4:17) 2. the father of Methuselah: said to have walked with God and to have been taken by God at the end of his earthly life (Genesis 5:24) Enoch traditionally seen as paragon of upright man. [O.T.: Genesis 5:21–24] See : Righteousness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Enoch lived in the house with his mother in those days and when he was a young boy went to school at the Winesburg High School. Last time he had remembered their names, but now he had forgotten them utterly, chiefly because Enoch was the personage he liked best in the whole of the Old Testament, and Enoch's translation to heaven was connected in his mind with a whole long train of thought, in which he became absorbed now while he gazed with fascinated eyes at his father's watch-chain and a half-unbuttoned button on his waistcoat. If I may state my intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied spiritually |
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