Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
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Clement Of Rome

AD 99
Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him. Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Henoch chap. xxiii.; St. Chrysostom; (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
This man displayed greater faith than Abel. How (you ask)? Because, although be came after him, yet what befell [Abel] was sufficient to guide him back. How? God foreknew that [Abel] would be killed. For He said to Cain: You have sinned: do not add thereto. Honored by him, He did not protect him. And yet neither did this throw him [Enoch] into indifference. He said not to himself, 'What need of toils and dangers? Abel honored God, yet He did not protect him. For what advantage had he that was departed, from the punishment of his brother? And what benefit could he reap therefrom? Let us allow that he suffers severe punishment: what is that to him who has been slain?' He neither said nor thought anything of this kind, but passing beyond all these things, he knew that if there is a God, certainly there is a Rewarder also: although as yet they knew nothing of a resurrection. But if they who as yet know nothing of a resurrection, and see contradictory things here, thus pleased [God], how mu...

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
For Enoch, too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and in-observant of the Sabbath, He translated from this world;. Such power was not accorded to the great Medea herself-over a human being at any rate, if allowed her over a silly sheep. Enoch no doubt was translated,

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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