Nearly all the writers of the New Testament were familiar with this book, and were more or less influenced by it in thought and diction . It is quoted as a genuine production of Enoch by St. Jude, and as Scripture by St. Barnabas . The authors of the Book of Jubilees, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 4 Ezra, laid it under contribution . With the earlier fathers and apologists it had all the weight of a canonical book .
