Tag: Book of Enoch

[Chapter 38] 1 The first Parable. When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,And sinners shall be judged for their sins,And shall be driven from the face of the earth: 2 And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous,Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,...

[Chapter 77] 1 And the first quarter is called the east, because it is the first: and the second, the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for ever 2 descend. And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there all the lu...

[Chapter 43] 1 And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their 2 names and they hearkened unto Him. And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their appe...

[Chapter 23] 1,2 From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. And I saw a burning 3 fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. And 4 I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy angels ...

[Chapter 48] 1 And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousnessWhich was inexhaustible:And around it were many fountains of wisdom:And all the thirsty drank of them,And were filled with wisdom,And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.2 And at that hour that Son of Man was ...

LXXVIII. The Sun and Moon: the Waxing and Waning of the Moon. CHAPTER LXXVIII. 1. And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjares, and the second Tomas. 2. And the moon has four names: the first name is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe. 3. These are the tw...

LXI. Angels go off to measure Paradise: the Judgement of the Righteous by the Elect One; the Praise of the Elect One and of God. Chapter LXI. 1. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north. 2. And I as...

Section IV. Chapters LXXXIII-XC.The Dream-Visions. [Chapter 83] 1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting 2 them before thee. Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I was learning to write: the ...

From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament R.H. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text that is considered as an apocryphal work by the majority of Christians and is not found in the canon of the Old Testament. It is attributed to Enoch, the gr...

[Chapter 52] l And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden -for 2 I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west-There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copp...

[Chapter 82] 1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and writing down for thee! and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy father's hand, and (see) that thou deliver them to the ...

[Chapter 18] 1 I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with them the whole creation 2 and the firm foundations of the earth. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four 3 winds which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. And I saw how the winds stret...