4 And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah. (ENO) 5 And he said unto him: ‘I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious. (ENO) 6 And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the earth. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 106:4–6
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