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the
Enoch of
Enoch 14 &
the one like a son
of man of Dani'el 7 & concluded,
quite naturally, in Enoch 71
that "you [Enoch] are
the Son of Man."

A crucial step
in the developed messianic idea thus had been taken:
the merger of the second G d, heavenly Redeemer figure
and an earthly savior exalted
into heaven.

We can detect
in the Similitudes of Enoch
the actual tracks of a religious history in which two originally independent strands of tradition
have been combined into one!? On one hand, we see the development of the one like like a son of man
of Daniel 7 from a simile into a title; we can literally see
this development taking place
on the page.

On the other hand,
we see the tradition of the seventh antediluvian human king
who was exalted and given a place in heaven,
which is one of the mist powerful themes
of the whole Enoch work?!

In chapter 71
of the Similitudes
we observe these two traditions
being combined into one and
the two figures of Enoch
and the Son of Man
coming together.

The complex,
doubled story of the Son of Man
had already been prepared for in PRE-JESUS
Jewish speculation and was extant at the time of his life:
it already included the two elements of a Son of Man who was the preexistent,
transcendent Messiah & the element of the human being who would be
THE embodiment of that Messiah on earth
& be exalted & merged
with him.

Thus was born
the Christ, not quite a historical
virgin birth or creation out of nothing
but the fulfillment of the highest
& most powerful aspirations
of the Jewish people.
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