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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Perhaps at this time they had the original. Or perhaps they "remembered" stories or had commentary of the original.
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To paraphrase the King of Lacedaemonians: "
Perhaps."
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Some suggest that someone inserted or wrote the book of Enoch after Jude and included what Jude said
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Except that we have fragments from Qumram that are much older than Jude which bear record to the fact that it was Jude who quoted "Enoch."
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Barnes
There is, indeed, now an apocryphal writing called “the Book of Enoch,” containing a prediction strongly resembling this, ...
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From about the time of Augustine forward, everyone seems to have been trying to throw our monstrous and/or heroic babies out with their bathwater. To do so would make a difficult problem easier to handle - but would it be honest? I don't think so. I'd rather have a thousand loose ends than a single intractable knot woven from my own obstinance.
Why not accept the fact that there were human beings in antiquity discussing matters that leave us a bit bewildered? Do we have some sort of mindset that since they were "ancient" they must also have been "more primitive" than ourselves? Fact of the matter is - we have irrational mobs today that lash out violently against their neighbors and display the same ignorances and superstitions as "ancient people" did. There is wisdom to be found in the ancient texts.