1 Enoch 89:67
Pseudepigrapha
64 And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them. 65 But they shall not know it, and you shall not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me.' 66 And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the hand of the lions. 67 And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars ate along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished that house.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Barnabas 16:5
Epistle of Barnabas
Patristic
2 For, almost like the Gentiles, they treated Him as if consecrated in the temple. But what does the Lord say, annulling the temple? Learn this: ‘Who has measured the sky with a span or the earth with his hand? Haven’t I?’ says the Lord. ‘Heaven is My throne, and earth is the footstool under My feet. What house will you build for Me, or what will be My resting place?’ You see that their hope is in vain. 3 Furthermore, He says again: ‘Look, those who tore down this temple will themselves build it.’ 4 So it happens; for since they went to war, it was torn down by their enemies. And now even the servants of their enemies will rebuild it. 5 Again, it was revealed how the city and the temple and the people of Israel would be handed over. For Scripture says: ‘And it will come to pass in the last days that the Lord will hand over the sheep of His pasture, and the fold, and their tower, to destruction.’ And it happened as the Lord said.
Date: 80-120 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... James VanderKam notes the widespread use of 1 Enoch in early Christianity and makes the point that it is highly unlikely that the early Christians, who were significantly influenced by Jewish canonical views, would have such high regard for a book that had no standing within the Jewish community. For example, besides the reference to 1 Enoch in the Epistle of Barnabas (16:5) noted above, acceptance of 1 Enoch in early Christianity is among such notables as Athenagoras, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Bardaisan, the author of the Pseudo-Clementine literature, Julius Africanus, Origen, Commodian, Zosimus, Cyprian, as well as some earlier Gnostic literature. The book is also found in the Chester Beatty papyri (ca. 200 CE) along with Sirach, and it is not distinguished from other biblical books. Augustine is apparently the first notable church leader who rejected 1 Enoch as a canonical book. However, that book was translated into Ethiopic (Ge'ez) between the fourth and fifth centuries and continues as a canonical text (as does Jubilees) in the Abyssinian Church today ..."
McDonald, Lee Martin
Forgotten Scriptures: The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings
(p. 136) Westminster John Knox Press, 2009
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