Page "Epistle of Jude" Paragraph 15

: Verses 14-15 contains a direct quote of a prophecy from 1En. 1: 9.

The title " Enoch, the seventh from Adam " is also sourced from 1En. 60: 1.

Most commentators assume that this indicates that Jude accepts the antediluvian patriarch Enoch as the author of the Book of Enoch which contains the same quotation.

However an alternative explanation is that Jude quotes the Book of Enoch aware that verses 14-15 are in fact an expansion of the words of Moses from Deuteronomy 33: 2.

This is supported by Jude's unusual Greek statement that " Enoch the Seventh from Adam prophesied to the false teachers, not " concerning " them.