Enoch’s Translation and Scripture Misuse
By Editor
THE word of God says that "Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him," and then explains this by saying, "Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him." Nothing can be clearer, therefore, than that the expression, "he was not, for God took him," cannot be applied in the case of any person who dies, but to translation, and to that alone. Yet Rev. F. F. Jewell, writing in the Pacific Christian Advocate, June 16, of a man who died June 7, says: "He dropped to the floor, and immediately expired. 'He was not, for God took him'"!! Such a shameful perversion of the Scriptures we shall not attempt to characterize further than to say that such a travesty upon the word of God seems to us to fall but little short of blasphemy.