Q.-Do you consider the assertion that Jude 14, “Behold the Lord cometh” &c., is a quotation from the book of Enoch, is just? J. H.
A.-The existing book of Enoch, translated into the Ethiopic tongue, may have had a Hebrew original, as it is a Jewish production. Some contend that it preceded the birth of our Lord. It was probably after Jude gave the words of Enoch by divine inspiration, which also supplied the fact of the contest between Michael and Satan about the body of Moses. It is certain that, as Jude's words (vers. 14, 15) are divine truth, the corresponding language in the Ethiopic is false. For this spurious book makes the Lord to execute judgment on His saints, in direct opposition to His own word in John 5:24: the prevalent error of Judaism and Christendom.
Q.-How do you understand the genealogies in Matt. 1 and Luke 3? J. H.
A.-Matthew gives the properly Messianic genealogy from Solomon through our Lord as legal heir of Joseph, for without it promise had failed and He had lacked the legal title. Luke gives His real line as Son of man, and Son of God here below, through Mary, not down from Abraham and David, but up to Adam and God. Mary, as the Talmud allows, was Heli's daughter; “being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,” is the true parenthesis, and not part of the genealogical line.
Recollections of the late G. J. Bellett, by his daughter with sequel: the memory of a dearly loved and only son of J. G. B. A. S. Rouse, 15 & 16, Paternoster Square, London, E.C. 1895.
MANY readers of the B. T. will only need to hear of this little volume, in order to enjoy the pleasure of learning more of one so loved and honored, from its seven brief chapters, and the short memoir of his dear son.