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Originally Posted by Jerusalem Blade  I would say that the author of the Book of Enoch quoted the same ancient saying Jude did. There is no basis upon which to assert Jude quoted from the BOE.
Note also the similar saying in Deut 33:2. |
If there were another source, the problem grows bigger since we do not know what that source would be. Someone could say that some unknown "lost" book might have been part of the Septuagint or that some forgotten "oral tradition" might have been divinely inspired. I don't think we want that.