Enoch

In chapter 11, Reverend Dimmesdale “longed to speak out, from his own pulpit, at the full height of his voice, and tell the people what he was. ‘I, whom you behold in these black garments of the priesthood,– I, who ascend the sacred desk, and turn my pale face heavenward, taking upon myself to hold communion, in your behalf, with the Most High Omniscience, – I, in whose daily life you discern the sanctity of Enoch, – I, whose footsteps, as you suppose, leave a gleam along my earthly track, whereby the pilgrims that shall come after me may be guided to the regions of the blest…– I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!’” GENESIS 5:21-23 tells us about Enoch, Noah’s great-grandfather: “Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot [fathered] Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not [found dead], for God took him.” Amazingly, Enoch never died a physical death, “for God took him.”