Within this series, you will find info from The Gospel of Peter, The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, The Epistle of Barnabas aka Pseudo-Barnabas, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Anatolius of Alexandria, Jerome plus Alfred Loisy. See my previous articles Did the prophet Enoch write the Book of Enoch? and 1, 2, 3 Books of Enoch and Methuselah
May generic statements can be found online, may repeated again and again, which reference certain early church leaders with regards to the Book of Enoch. However, most do not provide quotations or citations and until such a time as I can track more references down these will make due.
In this segment we will consider The Gospel of Peter, The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
GOSPEL OF PETER (70-160 AD):
M.R. James, trans., The Apocryphal New Testament on the Gospel of Peter:
The early testimonies about this book have been set forth already. The present fragment was discovered in 1884 in a tomb at Akhmimin Egypt. The manuscript in which it is a little book containing a portion of the Book of Enoch in Greek, this fragment on the Passion and another, a description of Heaven and Hell, which is either (as I now think) a second fragment of the Gospel, or a piece of the Apocalypse of Peter. It will be given later under that head.
THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS (70-200 AD):
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs’ Testament of Simeon Concerning Envy:
For I have seen it inscribed in the writing of Enoch that your sons shall be corrupted in fornication…the book of Enoch the righteous.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs’ Testament of Dan Concerning Anger and Lying:
[For I have read in the book of Enoch, the righteous, that your prince is Satan, and that all the spirits of wickedness and pride will conspire to attend constantly on the sons of Levi, to cause them to sin before the Lord. And my sons will draw near to Levi. And sin with them in all things; And the sons of Judah will be covetous, Plundering other men’s goods like lions.] (brackets in R. H. Charles’s The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, Vol II)