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Old 02-14-2009, 06:44 PM
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Re: Who Was Melchizedek ?

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Originally Posted by Praxeas View Post
So nobody knows which is which...if any at all...so why not just as Enoch too lol
Enoch is at least attested back to antiquity. The real book of Jasher (The Book of the Upright) is lost to time. All we have are the planks found floating on the sea after a tremendous shipwreck.

"But howsoever the works of wisdom are among human things the most excellent, yet they too have their periods and closes. For so it is that after kingdoms and commonwealths have flourished for a time, there arise perturbations and seditious and wars; amid the uproars of which, first the laws are put to silence, and then men return to the depraved conditions of their nature, and desolation is seen in the fields and cities.


And if such troubles last, it is not long before letters also and philosophy are so torn in pieces that no traces of them can be found but a few fragments, scattered here and there like planks from a shipwreck; and then a season of barbarism sets in, the waters of Helicon being sunk under the ground, until, according to the appointed vicissitude of things, they break out and issue forth again, perhaps among other nations, and not in the places where they were before."

Sir Francis Bacon
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