Gen. 5:24. "Enoch walked," etc. That Enoch and Elias were translated, shows that it is not because the redemption of Christ was not sufficient, that the saints are not wholly freed from death, so as never to taste it. God saw fit that there should be these instances of it, probably partly for this end, to manifest this. If all mankind had died without one exception, it would have been ready to lead us to think it absolutely necessary that the justice or truth of God required, and that these didn't allow of one being redeemed from it; and that the redemption of Christ in that point failed of sufficiency. What is absolutely universal, we are ready to look upon as absolutely necessary; and the translation of these saints is the more credible, because at the end of the world all the saints that are found living when Christ comes, shall be translated without dying. If all shall be translated, why not one or two before?

Gen. 5:29

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