Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

 It cannot fail to strike every attentive reader of the Gospel history, how much the teaching of our Lord, as He approached the close of His ministry, dwelt upon the theme of coming judgment. When He spoke this parable Luke 19:11–27, He was on His way to Jerusalem to keep His last Passover before He suffered; and it is remarkable how His discourses from this time seem almost wholly engrossed, not by His own approaching death, but the impending catastrophe of the nation.  Not only this parable of the pounds, but His lamentation over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41); His cursing of the fig-tree (Matt. 21; Mark 11); the parable of the wicked husbandmen (Matt. 21; Mark 12; Luke 20); the parable of the marriage of the king’s son (Matt. 22); the woes pronounced upon ‘ that generation ’ (Matt. 23:29–36); the second lamentation over Jerusalem (Matt. 23:37, 38); and the prophetic discourse on the Mount of Olives, with the parables and parabolic illustrations appended thereto by St. Matthew,—all ...

  For wisdom has been poured out like water, and glory will not fail in his presence forever and ever. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness; and unrighteousness will vanish like a shadow, and will have no place to stand. For the Chosen One has taken his stand in the presence of the Lord of Spirits; and his glory is forever and ever, and his might, to all generations.           And in him dwell the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of insight, and the spirit of instruction and might, and the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness. And he will judge the things that are secret, and a lying word none will be able to speak in his presence; For he is the Chosen One in the presence of the Lord of Spirits according to his good pleasure.  George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012), 63.   “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us ...