Saint Enoch, Prophet

Saint Enoch, Prophet

聖祖哈諾客

紀念日 / Memorial date

七月三十日

/

July 30

Saint Enoch, Prophet

Saint Enoch, Prophet

聖祖哈諾客

紀念日:

七月三十日

Memorial Date:

July 30

聖祖哈諾客

哈諾客是個聖經人物,按創世紀第五章從亞當到諾厄,洪水之前共有10位族長,哈諾客排第七。聖經兩次提及哈諾客常與天主往來(創5:23-24),然後天主將他提去。

新約(希11:5-6) 關於哈諾客說:「因著信德,哈諾客被接去了,叫他不見死亡,世人也找不著他了,因為天主已將他接去;原來他被接去之前,已有了中悅天主的明證。沒有信德,是不可能中悅天主的,因為凡接近天主的人,應該信他存在,且信他對尋求他的人是賞報者」。

德訓篇 (44:16) 則說:「哈諾客悅樂了上主,故此被提升天,成為後世悔改的模範。」

創世紀說,哈諾客共活了365歲(創5:24)。

宗徒猶達(猶1:14-15)可能引用猶太傳統的內容,說:「亞當後第七代聖祖哈諾客也曾預言:『看,主帶著他千萬的聖者降來,要審判眾人,指證一切惡人所行的一切惡事,和邪辟的人所說的一切褻瀆他的言語。』」

祈禱

聖祖哈諾客,你常與天主往來,請為我們祈禱,求天主幫助我們以信德生活,俾能在他來臨時,蒙受他的寬恕和接納。因你的聖子、我們的主耶穌基督,他和你及聖神,是唯一天主,永生永王。亞孟。

Saint Enoch, Prophet

Enoch is a biblical figure and he appears in the Book of Genesis of the Pentateuch as the seventh of the ten pre-Deluge Patriarchs. He is the patriarch prior to Noah’s flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. Genesis 5 provides a genealogy of these ten figures (from Adam to Noah).

At the time of the birth of Mathusala, Enoch was sixty-five years of age, “and all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years” (Genesis 5:23). Instead of the clause “and he died”, added to the sketches concerning the other patriarchs, the text says of Enoch: “And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him” (Genesis 5:24). This happens 57 years after Adam’s death and 69 years before Noah’s birth.

The inspired writer of Hebrews 11:5 adds: “By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death.” Sirach 44:16 and 49:16 intimates the same truth about the patriarch. The Epistle of St. Jude (14-15) shows us Enoch in the light of a prophet, announcing the judgement of God upon the ungodly. Some writers have supposed that St. Jude quoted these words from the so-called apocryphal Book of Henoch; but, since they do not fit into its context, it is more reasonable to suppose that they were interpolated into the apocryphal book from the text of St. Jude. The Apostle must have borrowed the words from Jewish tradition.

Prayer

St. Enoch, pray for us.

資料來源 References

圖:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Figures_God_took_Enoch.jpg

中文內容:https://biblicalhk.org/biblical/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Enoch-Elijah-JohnB.pdf

English text:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07218a.htm