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Jude Quotes Non-Canonical Texts

THE EPISTLE OF JUDE ·

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The argument usually stops at the wrong question. People ask: was 1 Enoch inspired? Heiser says the canonicity question is secondary, and asks a different one - did the New Testament writers know this book, use it, and expect their readers to recognise it?

On that question the evidence is not thin. Jude quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 almost in full. Second Peter uses the language of 1 Enoch 10 verbatim - chains of gloomy darkness, kept until judgment. Revelation's lake of fire draws conceptually on 1 Enoch 10-21. Matthew 25:41 speaks of fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

None of that makes 1 Enoch Scripture. All of it means the apostles were writing to people who had read it.

Scripture links:

- Jude 14-15 - The direct quotation.

- 2 Peter 2:4 - "chains of gloomy darkness... kept until the judgment."

You do not have to accept a book as Scripture to admit the apostles expected you to have read it.

What the Scripture Says

  • Jude 14ESV

    It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, 'Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones.'

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