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ENNOK. Enoch was the son of Cain, his time given as the seventh generation of the human race. The world's first city was named after him (Etym, VII.vi.11). The passage which says: "Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him" (Genesis 5:24) is interpreted by Paul: "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him" (Hebrews 11:5). Thus it was thought that Enoch ascended into heaven. Enoch's ascent is described in Ecloga Theoduli 65-68, a ninth-century school text Chaucer probably knew.

The Dreamer wonders why the Eagle should take him into heaven since he is not Ennok, HF II.588. [Elye: Ganymede: Romulus]

Ennok appears medially, HF II.588.


Ecloga Theoduli, ed. J. Osternacher, 34; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, ed. W.M. Lindsay, I.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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