John Calvin Commentary Hebrews 11:5

"By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:" — Hebrews 11:5 (ASV)

By faith Enoch, etc. He chose a few of the most ancient, so that he might make a transition to Abraham and his posterity. He teaches us that it was through faith that Enoch was translated.

But we should especially consider the reason why God removed him from the earth in such an unusual manner. The event was remarkable, and therefore all may know how dear he was to God. Impiety and all kinds of corruptions then prevailed everywhere. If he had died like other men, it would not have occurred to anyone that he was thus preserved from the prevailing contagion by God’s providence; but, since he was taken away without dying, the hand of God from heaven, removing him as it were from the fire, was openly manifested.

It was not, then, an ordinary honor with which God had favored him. Moses indeed tells us that he was a righteous man and that he walked with God; but since righteousness begins with faith, it is justly ascribed to his faith, that he pleased God.

As for the subtle questions that curious people usually raise, it is better to pass over them without taking much notice of them. They ask, what became of these two men, Enoch and Elijah? And then, so that they may not appear merely to be asking questions, they imagine that they are reserved for the last days of the Church, that they may then come forth into the world; and for this purpose, the Revelation of John is referred to. Let us leave this airy philosophy to those flighty and vain minds that cannot be satisfied with what is solid. Let it suffice us to know that their translation was a type of extraordinary death; nor let us doubt that they were divested of their mortal and corruptible flesh, so that they might, with the other members of Christ, be renewed into a blessed immortality.