Indeed Enoch was not post-flood or mid-food he was pre-flood.
When we were talking about this yesterday, it made me remember and think about his "name meaning" ('dedication' or 'initiation')... and as I was thinking about the word 'dedicate' and a particular scripture reference, I happened to come across the following quote (below) by Augustine that was along the lines of what was going through my head at that time (
not that I would endorse Augustine's Amillennial-type stuff, or its faulty chronology [let alone his typical method of interpretation, etc], but just that I thought it was interesting that my thoughts were trying to formulate
something akin to what he says here, about Enoch--see quote below, after the verse I was thinking about first):
Deuteronomy 20:5 - [related to
the name "Enoch" meaning "dedicated" or "initiated"]
"And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not
dedicated [H2596 - ḥānaḵ] it?
let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate [H2596 - ḥānaḵ] it."
- H2596 (verb) - "
to initiate, a house (that is
to dedicate, or
to commence to use)."
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[note my caveat at top...; quoting]
The Significance of Enoch's Translation.
City of God — St. Augustine
"For that line also of which Seth is the father
has the name "Dedication" in the seventh generation from Adam, counting Adam. For the seventh from him is Enoch, that is, Dedication. But this is that man who was translated because he pleased God, and who held in the order of the generations a remarkable place, being the seventh from Adam, a number signalized by the consecration of the Sabbath. But, counting from the diverging point of the two lines, or from Seth, he was the sixth. Now it was on the sixth day God made man, and consummated His works.
But the translation of Enoch prefigured our deferred dedication; for though it is indeed already accomplished in Christ our Head, who so rose again that He shall die no more, and who was Himself also translated,
yet there remains another dedication of the whole house, of which Christ Himself is the foundation, and this dedication is deferred till the end, when all shall rise again to die no more. And whether it is the house of God, or the temple of God, or the city of God, that is said to be dedicated, it is all the same, and equally in accordance with the usage of the Latin language."
[end quoting]
(made me also recall the posts I've made re:
Heb9:8-9a saying, "...the first tabernacle [the one in the wilderness] yet having A STANDING [ /
STASIS / STASIN ], which is a parable
for the present time")
The tradition is that he was was born on Pentecost and was raptured on his birthday.
I've heard that too, but I would have no way of knowing whether or not it's true, so I don't really dwell on that particular train of thought, personally... lol