Hebrews 11:5

5. Example of Enoch.

Translated Transferred, like Elijah, (2 Kings 2:11,) bodily from earth to heaven.

That In order that. It was the divine purpose that Enoch should be in the patriarchal dispensation the example of the immortality of man and the glorification of the faithful. So was Elijah in the Mosaic dispensation; and, crowning all, Christ in his own dispensation. So the pre-Christian writer, Sirach, says, ( Sir 44:16 ,) “Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, an example of repentance to the generations.” And, again, ( Sir 49:14 ,) “Upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was even taken up from the earth.” And Josephus says, “He went to the divinity.”

That In order that; expressive of the divine purpose.

See death Experience death, Luke 2:26. He passed thus the glorious resurrection “change” (note on 1 Corinthians 15:51) without passing through the agony of dissolution. His spirit dwelt not in paradise; but both body and spirit ascended to the highest heaven.

Not found No human search on earth could discover him. So Livy says of Romulus, “Nor then was Romulus on earth.”

He had this testimony That is, it stands testified, before his translation, in the Genesis history, (Genesis 5:24,) that he “walked with,” that is, pleased, God.