cension must have quickened the holy
patriarchs 56.

13. Enoch's ascension a sign that a better life is offered to man
57.

14. How Enoch walked and lived before God 58.

15. Enoch a man as we are and yet God took him 58.

* The great sorrow of the patriarchs at Enoch's disappearance and
their great joy over such an experience 59.

* Seth at the time was high priest, old and tired of life, and
died soon after Enoch was taken 60-63.

* What Luther would do if he knew in advance the day of his death
61.

* This temporal life full of want and misery 62.

* The results of Seth's preaching after Enoch's ascension 63.

* The longing of the holy fathers for eternal life, and how it
should serve us 64.

* Lamentation over the great corruption inherent in our flesh 65.

16. Enoch's ascension was great comfort to the holy patriarchs in
meeting death 66.

* Of death.

a. It is not death to believers, but a sleep 66.

b. In what way death is a punishment of sin, and how it is
sweetened 67.

* Luther's thoughts of Enoch's ascension 67.

17. Enoch's ascension extraordinary, and well worthy of
consideration by all 68.

18. The rabbins' foolish thoughts of Enoch's ascension refuted 69.

19. Enoch doubtless had many temptations 69.

20. Enoch ascended even bodily, and not with that life which he now
lives 70.

* How and why God willed that the world should have in all times a
sign of the resurrection, and hence in the first world Enoch
ascended, in the second Elijah, and in the third Christ 71.

* Lamentation over the unbelief of the world 72.

* Christ's ascension more significant than Enoch's or Elijah's 73.

* The chief doctrine of the first five chapters of Genesis 74.

* How and why death and the resurrection of the dead are set forth
74.

III. ENOCH.

44. There is one history, however, that of Enoch, the seventh from
Adam, which Moses was not willing to pass over for the reason of its
being extraordinarily remarkable. Still, even in this case he is
extremely brief.

In the case of all the other patriarchs he mentions only the names and
the number of their years. Enoch, however, he delineates in such a
manner that he seems, in comparison, to slight the other patriarchs
and, as it were, to disparage them as if they were evil men,