Show son of man from book of enoch there Is a general impression that prophetic writing had ceased in israel from the time of the old testament to the gospels but in fact there was a continuous though diminishing flow of it the jews had no profane history all their writings were accounts of god in his dealings with them either as individuals or as a nation books of this kind bringing the story of israel down to his own time were it in circulation and had been read by jesus he quoted from them from the book of enoch he took the title which lie he very early began to apply to himself the son of man iian from the man ian jesus by mary austin in tho north american review |