Genesis 5:21 (WEB)
Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.21Conference VIII
“…begat Cainan, but Cainan begat Mahalaleel, but Mahalaleel begat Jared, Jared begat Enoch, Enoch begat Methuselah, Methuselah begat Lamech, Lamech begat Noah.”” — editor's note: Gen. v. 4–30.
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Tertullian
“If that is the reason (for rejecting it), let them recall to their memory that Noah, the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch himself; and he, of course, had heard and remembered, from domestic renown and hereditary tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather’s “grace in the sight of God,”…” — editor's note: See Gen. v. 21, 25, 28, 29.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Enoch was translated, attaining to his translation as the reward of a little piety (for the faith was still in shadow) and escaped the peril of the remainder of life, but Basil’s whole life was a translation, and he was completely tested in a complete life.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 21.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.