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ment. Of Enoch Moyses here maketh the matter more then probable, saying of euerie one of the rest, he dyed, onlie of Enoch saith not so, but that he appeared, or was seene no more. For which the seuentie two interpreters say, And he was not found, for God translated him. Which can not signifie death, but transporting, or remouing to an other place. Whereto agreeth the author of Ecclesiasticus, saying: Enoch pleased God, and was translated. But most clearly S. Paul saith, Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and he was not found for God translated him. With what plainer wordes can any man declare, that a special person were not dead, then to say: He was translated, or cōueyed away, that he should not see death? Neither is it a reasonable euasion to interprete this of spiritual death. For so Adam being eternally saued (as S. Irenaeus li. 3. c. 34. Epiphan. con. haeresim 46. S. Agustin epist. 99. ad Euodium, and others teach,

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