The genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Noe. The translation of Henoch.
Genesis Chapter 5
The City of God and those who belong to it, are constantly calling upon the name of the Lord.
“The proper way to present the two cities: The one begins and ends with a murderer, for Lamech, too, as he admitted to his two wives, was a murderer. The other city begins with the man who hoped to call upon the name of the Lord God, for the invocation of God is the whole and the highest preoccupation of the city of God during its pilgrimage in this world.”(4) -St. Augustine
Hope in God brings us closer to Him.
“Enoch called upon God in hope and so is thought to have been transported. And so only that man who puts his hope in God seems to be ‘man.’ Moreover, the clear and truthful sense of the passage is that one who puts his hope in God does not dwell on earth but is transported, so to speak, and cleaves to God.”(4) -St. Augustine
Walk with God in this life and you will view the things of this world as they truly are.
“The mind is so caught up in this way that the hearing no longer takes in the voices outside and images of the passerby no longer come to sight and the eye no longer sees the mounds confronting it or the gigantic objects rising up against it. No one will possess the truth and the power of all this unless he has direct experience to teach him. The Lord will have turned the eyes of his heart away from everything of the here and now, and he will think of these as not transitory so much as already gone, smoke scattered into nothing. He walks with God, like Enoch. He is gone from a human way of life, from human concerns. He is no longer to be found amid the vanity of this present world. The text of Genesis relates that this actually happened to Enoch in the body: ‘Enoch walked with God and was not to be found because God had taken him away.’ The apostle says, ‘Because of his faith, Enoch was taken up so that he did not have to encounter death.’”(4) -St. John Cassian
Become the Saint God made you to be: no excuses.
“Well, then, do not say, ‘I am impeded by the flesh, so I cannot win out or take on myself efforts to acquire virtue.’ Do not thus accuse your Creator. For if the flesh makes it impossible to possess virtue, the fault is not ours. However, the company of the saints has shown that in reality it does not make this impossible. The nature of the flesh did not prevent Paul, for instance, from becoming such a saint as he became or Peter from receiving the keys of heaven. Further, Enoch, though possessed of the flesh, was taken by God and seen no more.”(4) -St. John Chrysostom
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