1 Enoch 37:2
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And this is the beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and say to those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the Lord of Spirits.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Second Vision Opens: Wisdom for Those Who Come After
Enoch introduces "the second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom," tracing his own line back through Jared, Mahalalel, Cainan, Enos, Seth, and Adam. He says he was given "three Parables" and lifts his voice to speak them to everyone who dwells on earth, not only to "the men of old time" but to those who come after.
- Luke 3:37 : Enoch's line through Jared, Mahalalel, Cainan, Enos, Seth, and Adam matches the same names in Luke's genealogy of Jesus, run in reverse.
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.
Michael S. Heiser
A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol. II — The Parables of Enoch (2020)
The reader's commentary continued into the Son of Man visions of these chapters.