Matthew Poole and continuators on Jude 1:14

14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam prophecied of those , saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints .

He doth not say writ, and therefore from hence i[illegible: 1 letter] cannot be proved that there was any such Book as Enoch's Prophecies, received by the Iews as Canonical Scripture, but rather, some Prophecy of his delivered to them by Tradition, to which here the Apostle refers, as a thing known among them; and so argues against these Hereticks from their own Concession, as v. 9. So here, q. d. these Men own the Prophecy of En[illegible: 1 letter]ch, that the Lord comes to Iudgment, &c. and they themselves are in the number of those ungodly ones, and they to whom the Prophecy is to be applied.

Not that he did directly and expressly prophesy of them in particular; but that his Prophecy of the Destruction of the World for the same kind of Crimes whereof they were guilty, did reach them, and so he foretold what should befall them as well as others.

Innumerable multitudes, a definite for an indefinite.

Ho[illegible: 1 letter]y Angels, Matth. 16.27. Dan. 7.10. Zach. 14.5. and 2 Thess. 1.7. and Rev. 5.11. Believers likewise may be here included, as attendants upon Christ when he comes to Judgment.

Either to distinguish him from Enoch the Son of Cain, or, to shew the antiquity of the Prophecy.

Marginal references: Gen. 5.18.; Matth. 25.31.