The New Testament quotes a book most Bibles leave out
Jude cites Enoch by name, as prophecy. Because this collection carries both, you can read the quotation and its source together and check it yourself.
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VIc. 400-200 BCE1 Enoch: the Book of the Watchers (Chapters 1-36) · 1 ENOCH 1
9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of [[His]] holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy [[all]] the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works [[of their ungodliness]] which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners [[have spoken]] against Him.
1 Enoch, third century BCE. Note the wording, then read the next stop.
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IXc. 50-110 CEJude · Chapter 1
14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Jude, three centuries later, quoting it almost word for word and attributing it to 'Enoch, the seventh from Adam'. Double brackets in the Enoch text mark words the 1917 translator restored by conjecture.
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VIc. 400-200 BCE1 Enoch: the Book of the Watchers (Chapters 1-36) · 1 ENOCH 6
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'
The Watchers narrative that Jude and 2 Peter both allude to when they mention angels who left their proper dwelling. Without Enoch, those verses have no referent.
This thread deliberately alternates between a source and the text quoting it, so it moves back and forth in time rather than running straight forward. That is the point of it.
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IXc. 50-110 CE2 Peter · Chapter 2
4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
The same tradition, in the latest-written book of the New Testament.
1 Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and in no other major canon. Jude's use of it is not a curiosity; it shows that the boundary of authoritative writing was still open when the New Testament was being written, and that the canon was decided later, by people, through a process that took centuries.
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