# Enoch — The City of God character guide

> Enoch in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Enoch begat

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Righteous man who walked with God and was taken up without dying.

## In the story

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x)

Representative of the seventh generation; translated without death at age 365, with a similar 100-year discrepancy before begetting his son.

### [Chapter XIII: On the Discrepancies Between the Hebrew and Septuagint Chronologies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii)

Mentioned as the son of Jared in the context of the chronological calculations.

### [The Significance of Enoch’s Translation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix)

The seventh from Adam, translated because he pleased God, prefiguring the deferred dedication of the house of God.

### [The Generations of Cain and Seth: The Two Cities Before the Flood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx)

Seventh from Adam through Seth; translated without dying, but begat children before translation.

### [Chapter XXIII: On the Nature of Angels and the Birth of Giants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii)

Mentioned as the seventh from Adam, who left divine writings that are considered apocryphal and not part of the canonical Scripture.

### [XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxviii)

Cited as the seventh from Adam who prophesied, according to the canonical epistle of Jude.

## Links

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