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1 Dec 2015

Adam and Enoch


Adam protoplastus, et colonus paradisi, princeps humani generis et delicti, ad imaginem Dei factus, universitati praelatus, qui creaturis nomina dedit atque in eis potestatem dominandi accepit. Hic in deliciis florentis paradisi constitutus, inter redolentes armoratum sylvas ac vernantia floribus arva, ruris habitator, novae vitae gaudia peragebat: ubi tellus fecunda viret perpetuo vere, ubi fons decurrens quadrifluo labitur amne. Sed postquam serpentis dolo, lingua etiam pollutus feminea, per tactum ligni, loci beatitudinem profanavit, paradiso projectus, terra, sentibus squallentem operaius gemens incoluit. Amissaque immortalitate, in pulverem, unde carnis sumpserat ortum, post cursum annorum nongentorum triginta rediit. Hinc jam posteritas in crimine hujus parentis exsutem se paradiso factam, ac labori mortique subactam ingemuit.

Enoch filius Jared, septimus ab Adam, placens Deo, malorum nescius, mortis ignarus, qui sceleratorum hominum non ferens angustias, a perniciosis contractibus mundi substractus, meruit in eum locum transferri vivens unde fuerat protoplastus expulsus. Sublatus est autem annorum trecentorum sexaginta quique. Manet autem haetenus in corpore; in consummatione mundi restituet cum Elia mortalem vitae conditionem. 

Sanctus Isidorus Hispaliensis, De Ortu Et Orbitu Patrum Qui in Scriptura Laudibus Efferuntur
Adam the first fashioned and a farmer of paradise, head of the human race and of crime, made according to the image of God, preeminent before everything, who gave names to the creatures and received power to rule over them. Here among the fair flowers of paradise he was established, among sweets scented breezes and lush green fields, an inhabitant of the country he took joy in new life, where the earth put forth its fruits continually, where a spring produced four flowing rivers. But after the deceit of the serpent, defiled by the tongue of the women, through the touch of the wood, profaning the blessedness of the place, he was expelled from paradise, and he dwelt groaning in squalid work. Having lost immortality, he returned to dust, from whence he had taken flesh, after the course of nine hundred and thirty years. Hence the posterity of this parent by crime is exiled from paradise and groans subjected to travail and death.

Enoch the son of Jared, of the seventh generation from Adam, pleasing to the Lord, ignorant of evil, having no experience of death, who did not enter into the troubles of the crimes of men, was from the pernicious touch of the world taken, meriting to be placed living in the same place from where the first fashioned was expelled. He was aged three hundred and sixty five years. He remains in the body. At the consummation of the world he shall be restored with Elijah to the mortal condition of life.

Saint Isidore of Seville,On the Birth and Death of The Fathers

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