The City of God · Character
Enoch
Righteous man who walked with God and was taken up without dying.
minor
Also known as Enoch begat
First appearance: part i book i
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Representative of the seventh generation; translated without death at age 365, with a similar 100-year discrepancy before begetting his son.
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In X: Representative of the seventh generation; translated without death at age 365, with a similar 100-year discrepancy before begetting his son. Later, in Chapter XIII: On the Discrepancies Between the Hebrew and…
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- Other
Character groups
- Early Biblical Genealogy
- Patriarchs and Pagan Figures
- Diverse Historical and Biblical Figures
- Protagonist
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- X
- Chapter XIII: On the Discrepancies Between the Hebrew and Septuagint Chronologies
- The Significance of Enoch’s Translation
- The Generations of Cain and Seth: The Two Cities Before the Flood
- Chapter XXIII: On the Nature of Angels and the Birth of Giants
- XXXVIII
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