Part 12 (1/2)

314. And the fifth chapter, which now follows, is expressly written to set forth the immortality of Enoch, who was taken up into heaven by the Lord. Although the following chapter is necessary as a chronicle of the number of the years of the generation of the righteous, yet its most remarkable feature is its record that Enoch did not die like Adam, nor was slain like Abel, nor carried away, nor torn to pieces by lions and bears, but was taken up into heaven and translated into immortality by the Lord himself; all which was written that we might believe in the Seed of the woman, Christ our Redeemer and Satan's conqueror, and that through him we also might expect a life immortal after this mortal and afflicted life.

315. This harmony of these five chapters the Jews see not, for they are dest.i.tute of that sun which sheds light upon these things and makes them manifest; which sun is Christ, by whom we have the remission of sins and life immortal.

CHAPTER V.

I. THE BOOK OF THE FIRST GENERATIONS OF MAN, AND THE GLORY OF THE CAINITES.

A. THE BOOK OF THE FIRST GENERATIONS OF MAN.

1. The reasons why Moses records the generations of Adam 1.

2. Why he so particularly gives the years, and in the case of each patriarch adds ”and he died” 1-2.

3. Why Enoch is placed in the records of the dead 3-4.

* Was Enoch a sinner, and do sinners have hope of eternal life 4.

* Of death.

a. How we are to comfort ourselves against death 5.

b. How reason views death, and how the best heathen philosophers viewed it 6.

c. The knowledge the Scriptures give us of death 6.

4. How we may be greatly profited by the book of the generations of the ancient world 7.

5. Why the book of the generations of Cain is larger than that of Seth's 7.

* How terrible that both lines were totally destroyed, except eight persons 8.

6. The aim of Moses in writing this book of the generations of Adam 9.

* The glory of the first world 10.

a. What was this glory 9-10.

b. Why this glory was revealed 10.

c. Profitable and interesting to meditate upon it 11.

d. The patriarchs of the first world the most holy of all martyrs 12.

B. THE GLORY OF THE CAINITES.

1. The Cainites greatly tormented G.o.d's Church, especially after Adam's death 12.

2. To what end their hatred and persecution served the holy patriarchs 13.

* Why Moses did not record the zeal of the holy fathers against the Cainites 14.