Gregorii Abil-Pharagii

Dynast. I.

Enoch.

à Deo translatus taken by God.

the Syriac language calls the melody qinah lament/song, and the Arabs call the singing slave-girl a qaynah. Enoch, son of Jared, sired Methuselah. His age, according to the opinion of the Seventy, was one hundred and sixty-five years, and according to the opinion of the Jews, sixty-five years. This Enoch held fast to the manifest commandments of God and acted upon them; he followed what is good and turned away from evil. He taught the science of worship for three hundred years, so God took him, while he was still alive, to wherever He willed, and it is said, to Paradise.

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Hermes, Trismegistus called by the Greeks.

by the Arabs, Edris. There are three Hermeses.

1. Egyptian; built the pyramids.

2. Babylonian; founded the city of Babylon.

3. Also Egyptian.

The ancients among the Greeks claim that Enoch is Hermes, and he is titled Trismegistus Thrice-Greatest, meaning "triple in teaching," because he used to describe the Creator, may He be exalted, with three essential attributes: existence, wisdom, and life. The Arabs call him Idris. It is said that there are three Hermeses. The first is Hermes who lived in Upper Egypt; he was the first to speak about the celestial substances and warn of the Flood. Fearing the loss of knowledge and the decline of the crafts, he built the pyramids. He depicted within them all the crafts and tools, and he illustrated the branches of science in them, out of a desire to immortalize them for those who would come after him. The second is the Babylonian Hermes, who lived in Kalwanna, the city of the Chaldeans; he was after the Flood and was the first to build the city of Babylon after Nimrod, son of Cush. The third is the Egyptian Hermes, who is the one...