Enoch

(e'nok.) 1. A son of Cain.-2. An antediluvian patriarch, B. 3378 B. c., was the father of Me thu selah, and " was translated that he should not see death," (Gen. v. 24), at the age of 365. The book of E., one of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, is chiefly made up with a relation of the prophetic visions of E. regarding the fall, heaven, hell, nature, astronomy, the future of the Jewish people, & c. This book was current in the primitive church, but was not generally received as canonical. It was lost abt. the 8th cent. In the last cent., the traveller Bruce discovered in Aby in i a three complete MS. copies of the work, which he brought to England, where an English version of it was published in 1838 by Archbishop Lawrence. [s. 332]