The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.

The year 987.

This is altogether mysterious. It end∣eth the first seventy of the weeks of years, that ran from the year 497, to the Con∣ception of Christ.

It was the same year of the translation of Enoc, which began the second Septe∣nary of the 77 Generations, in the Ge∣nealogy of our Lord.

Christ is the seventieth Man after Enoc, as Enoc is the seventh man after Adam.

Enoc was the third went out of this world. Christ the third of those went up bodily into heaven, being preceded by Enoc and Elias.

The departure of Enoc was preceded by that of Abel, who died a violent death, and by that of Adam, who died a death natural. Those two ways, the vio∣lent death, and the natural, have been opened until, and represented now, in Abel and in Adam, the two first men that departed out of this world. There

remaineth a third way, viz. the trans∣mutation and translation of those that shall be sound living at the last day, 1 Cor. 15.51. this third way was represented in the Person of the third Man who de∣parted out of this world.

That translation of Enoc was the first Miracle that God wrought after the Crea∣tion of the world; and the last Miracle he will work, before he destroyeth the world, will be the translation of those that shall ascend to heaven.