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the Authorized Ve rsi o n o f the Epi st l e —o fi Jud e
we read the fo l l o w i n g wor d s
En o c h al s o the seventh from Adam prophesied
o f these saying Behold t h e Lord cometh with ten
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thousands o f his saints to execute judgment upon
all and to convince all that are ungodly among
them o f all their ungodl y deeds which they have
ungodly committed and o f all their hard speeches
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which u n godl y sinners have spoken against Him
Modern research sees in the Epistle o f Jude 9
work o f the s econd century : but as orthodox
theologians accept i t s contents as the in s pired
utterance of an A po s tle let us diligently s earch the
Hebrew S criptures for this important forecast o f the
s econd Advent o f the Me s siah
I n vain we turn
ov e r the page s of the sacred Canon ; not even in the
A pocry pha can we trace o n e line from the pen o f
the marvellou s bei n g t o whom uninterrupted i m m o r
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tality is as signed by apostolic interpretation o f
Genesis v 24 Were the prophecies o f Enoch
therefore accepted as a Divine revelation o n that
momentous day when Jesus explained the S crip
ture s after h i s resurrection to Jude and h i s apostolic
brethren ; and have we mo derns betrayed o ur trust
by excludin g an inspired record from the Bible
Reverting to the second century of Chri s ti anity
we find Iren aeu s and Clement o f Alexandria citing
the Bo o k o f Enoch without questioning its sacred
character Thus Iren aeus a s mg n m g to the Book o f
Enoch an authenticity analogous to that o f Mosaic
literature affirms that Enoch although a man
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filled the o ffice o f God s messenger to the angels
Tertullian who flouri s hed at the close o f t h e first
and at the beginning o f the second century whil s t
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admitting that the S crip t ure o f Enoch is n o t
received by some because it is not included i n the
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Hebre w Canon speaks o f the author as the mo s t
ancient prophet Enoch and o f the book as the
divinely inspired autograph o f t hat immortal patri
arch preserved by Noah i n the ark o r miraculously
reproduced by him through the in s piration of the
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Holy S pirit Tertullian adds But a s Enoch has
spoken in the same scripture o f the Lord and
every scripture suitable for e d i fica t i o n i s divinely
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inspired let us reject nothing which belong s to us
It may n o w se e m to have b een d i s avowed by the
Je w s like all other scripture which speaks of Chri s t
a fact which should cau s e us no s urpri s e a s th e y
were not to receive him even when per s onally
addre ss ed by hi m s e lf
The s e vie w s Tertullian con
firm s by appealing to the te s timony of the Apostle
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Jude
The Book o f Enoch w a s th e refore a s s acred
a s the P s alms o r I s aiah in the eye s of the famou s
theologian o n whom modern orthodox y relie s as
the chief canoni s t of Ne w Te s tament s cripture
O rigen (AD
in quoting Hebre w literature
a s s ign s to the Book of Enoch the s a m e authority
as to the P s alm s I n polemical di s c uss ion wit h
Cel s u s he a ffir m s that the work of the ant e diluvian
patriarch was not accepted in the Churche s a s
Divine ; and m odern theo l ogians have accordingly
as s umed that he rejected i t s in s piration : b ut the
extent to which he adopts i t s language and idea s
d i s closes per s onal conviction that Enoch was o n e of
the greate s t o f the prophet s Thu s in h i s treati s e f
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we read : We are not to s uppo s e
o n the angel s
that a s pecial o ffice has been a s s igned b y mere
accident to a particular angel : as to ,Raphael the
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work o f curing and healing ; to C a b ri e l the direction
o f war s ; to Michael the duty o f hearing the prayers
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but assumed revelation could O rigen obtain a n d
publi s h these circum s tantial d e ta ils o f min i sterial
administration in heaven ?
Turning to the Book o f Enoch we r ead : A fter
this I be s ought the angel o f peace who proc eeded
with me to explain all that was concealed I said
to him Who are those whom I have seen o n the
four sides and w hose words I have heard and
written down He replied The firs t i s t h e merciful
Th e s econd i s he who
t h e patient the holy Michael
presides over every s u ffering and ever y a ffl iction o f
the son s o f men the hol y Raphael Th e third who
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preside s over all that is pow e rful is Gabriel 7 A nd
the fourth who presides over repentance and the hope
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o f those who will inherit eternal life is P h azue l
We thus d i s cover the s ource o f O rigen s apparently
s uperhuman
knowledge and detect h i s implicit
tru s t in the Book o f Enoch a s a Divine revelation
When primitive Chri s tianity had freely app ro
ri a t e d the visions o f Enoch a s the m aterials of
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con s tructive dogmas this remarkable book gradually
into oblivion disappeared out o f We s t ern
s ank
Christendom and was e v entually forgotten by a
Church which unconsciou s ly perpetuated i t s teach
ing as the miraculo us revelation s o f Christianity
The Book o f Enoch unknown to E urope for
nearly a thousand years except through the frag
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preserved by Georgius Sy ncellus (circa 7 92
was at length discovered by Bruce in A b y ssinia
who brought home three C opies o f the Ethiopic
version in 1 7 7 3 respecting which he wri tes
A mongst the articles I consigned to the library at
Paris was a very beautiful and ma g nificent copy o f
t h e Prophecies o f Enoch in large quar t o ; ano t her
i s amongst the Books o f S cripture which I brought
home standing
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This priceles s manuscript d e stined some day to
reveal the forgotten source of many Chri s tian dogma s
and mysteries rested in Bo dleian ob s curity un t il
presented t o t h e world through an Engli s h tran s
lation by Dr Laurence A rchbi s hop o f Cashel
formerly Professor o f Hebrew at O x ford who issued
his first edition in 1 8 2 1 in ap p arent unconsciousness
that he was giving t o m ankind the theologic a l
fos s ils through which we in the clearer li ht
o f o ur
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Christianity
The scarcity o f Archbi s hop Laurence s tran s lation
before the publication o f the second edition in 1 8 3 3
produced an impre s s ion in Ger m any that t h e work
had been suppressed b y its author ; but this report
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is contradicted in the preface to the third edition
issued in 1 83 8 in response to a large order from
A merica
The Book o f Enoch excited more interest o n the
Continent than in England It was translated into
German b y Dr Ho ffman in 1 83 8 into Latin b y
Gfro re r in 1 840 again into German by Di l l m a n n in
1 8 5 3 and has been discussed b y We i sse L ii ck e
Hi l g e n fe l d and Kalisch the latter of whom uttered
the prediction that the book of Enoch will o n e
day be employed as a most important witness in
the histor y of religious dogmas
The da y and the
hour have come the clock has struck and in thu s
publishing an edition o f Archbi s hop Laurence s
translation o f the Book o f Enoch we place within
the reach o f all readers o f the English language
the means o f studying the pre Christian origin of
Christian mysteries
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Turning towards the Preliminary Dissertation
o f A rchbishop Laurence in which he discus s es with
impartial criticism and accomplished scholarship
the origin o f the Book o f Enoch we find him
attaining the important conclu s ions that it was
written by a Jew o f the Dispersion in his o w n
language whether Hebrew o r the later Aram ae an
acquired in exile ; that the version in the hands of
the author o f the Epistle o f Jude and the Ante
Nicene Fathers was a Greek translation ; and that
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the Ethiopic edition whether translated fro m
A ram aean o r Greek is the same work as that cited
by the A postle
In atte s tation of the theory o f an Aramaic o r
S yro Chald aean ori gin Archbi s hop Laurence refer s
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s pecies o f philosophical commentary upon the L a w
combining theological opinions with the allegorical
subtleties o f the m y stical school In thi s cele
b ra t e d compilation of what was long supposed to
con s titute the hidden wi s dom o f the Jewish nation
occasional references are made to the Book o f
En och a s a book carefully preserved from generation
to generation
A rchbi s hop Laurence then give s
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extracts from the Z ohar referring to important
passages in the Book of Enoch and infers that
the authors o f the Cabbali s tical re mains wrote
their recondite doctri nes in Chaldee and pos s essed
a copy o f the Book of Enoch written in that
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language o r in Hebre w which they regarded a s
the genuine work o f him who s e name it bore and
not a s the s purious production of a later age
A rchbi s hop Laurence then con s iders the probable
date of the work and infer s from the quotation o f
Jude that it must have been written antecedent to
the Chri s tian era but not before the Captivity o f
Babylon beca use it contain s the language and
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imagery o f Daniel in the representation o f the
A ncient o f Day s coming to j udgme nt with the S o n
1 ote
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B ut since A1 c h b i s h o p Lau rence
modern criticism has di s closed h o w nebulous is the
date o f Daniel s o that it become s as reasonable to
as s ume that the author o r co m piler borro w ed from
the Book o f Enoch as to attribute plagiarism to
the pseudo patriarch The learned tran s lator how
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discovered more sati s factor y proof through
internal evidence that the book w a s written long
sub s equent to the commencement and eve n to the
conclu s ion of the Babylonian Captivity
That section of the Book o f Enoch extending
from chapter lxxxii to xc contain s an allegorical
narrative o f the royal dynasties o f Israel and Judah
fro m which Archbishop Laurence con s tructs a
histo ry extending from S aul to the beginning o f
the reign o f Herod the Great and infers that the
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Book of Enoch w a s written before the rise o f
Chris t iani t y ; mo s t probably at an early period of
t h e reign o f Herod
The Archbi shop add s
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That it c ould not have been the production o f a
writer who lived after the in s pired authors o f the
New Testament o r who w a s even coeval with them
mu s t be manife s t from the quotation o f S t Jude
a quotation which proves it t o have been in his
time a work ascribed to Enoch him s elf
A rchbi shop Laurence fur t hermore attains p ro
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date through another line o f argument
In chapter liv 9 o f the Book o f Enoch we read
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Medes s hall rem ove kings in whom a spirit o f
perturbation s hall enter
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the flock
Commenting o n this pa s sage Arch
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altogether unknown in history until the 2 5 0t h year
before Chri s t when under the guidance o f Ars a ce s
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It was n o t however until the y ear 2 3 0
B G that their empire became firml y establishe d
when Ars a c e s defeated and took p ri s oner S eleucus
Ca l l i c i n us the S yrian monarch and fi rs t a s sumed
the title o f King o f Parthi a By degrees they
expelled the S yrian dominion from eve ry province
over which it extended ea s t of the Euphrate s ; so
that from about the year 1 4 0 B C their vast empire
reached from the Ganges t o the Euphrates and
from the Euphrates to the Cauca sus
The s e facts
would therefore lead to the conclusion that the
Book o f Enoch was written ab o ut the middle of the
second cen tury B C ; but as the author add s to
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the pas s age already cited The y s hall go up and
tread upon the land o f their elect the land o f their
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elect shall be before them
The threshing fl o o r
the path and the city o f my righteo us people shall
impede the progre s s o f their hor s es A rchbi s hop
Laurence connects thi s language with the in v a s ion
o f S yria by the Parthian s in the y ear 5 4 B C
and
their defeat of A nthony eighteen y ears later when
the credit o f the Part hian arms w a s at the highe s t ;
and it is probable that about the s ame period o r
at lea s t n o t long a fter the Book o f Enoch w a s
written
The que s tion now naturally arises How was this
work o f fiction accepted within s o s hort a period as
the genuine production o f the patriarch Enoch ?
The Archbi s hop answers by showing through
internal evidence that the book w a s written by a
Je w residing at a di s tance from Palestine and
having bee n brought into Jud ac a in the name o f the
prophet Enoch the obscurit y o f its origin cau se d
s ome to accept it as the genuine production of the
patriarch him s elf In chapter lxxi P s eudo Enoch
divides the da y and night into eighteen parts and
repre s ent s the longe s t day in the year as con s i s ting
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o f twelve o ut o f these eighteen parts
Now the
proportion o f twelve to eighteen i s precisely the
s ame a s
sixteen to four and twenty the present
division in hours o f the period constituting day and
night If therefore we consider in what latitude a
country must be situated to have a day of sixteen
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hours l ong we shall immediately perceive that
Palestine could not be such a country We may
then s afel y conclude that the region in which the
a uthor lived must have been situated not lower
than forty fiv e degree s north latitude where the
longest day is fifteen hours and a half n o r higher
perhap s than fort y nine degrees where the longe s t
day i s preci s ely s ixteen hours T h is will bring the
country where he wrote as high up at least a s the
northern district s o f the Caspian and Euxine seas ;
probably it was situated somewhere bet w een the
upper parts o f both the s e seas ; and if the l atter
conjecture be well founded the author o f the Book
o f Enoch was perhaps a member o f o n e o f the tribes
which S halmane s er carried away and placed in
Halah and in Habor by the riv e r Go s hen and in the
citi es of t h e Med e s and who never returned from
c apti v ity
S ince Archbi shop Laurence wrote his Pre
liminary Di s sertation fres h light has been thrown
o n the origin o f the Boo k o f Enoch through the
publication o f Mr L a ya rd s Nineveh and Bab y lon
recording the discovery in Babylonian ruin s of cups
o r bowls of terra cotta covered on the inner s urface
with in s cription s in ink which have been deciphered
by Mr Thomas Ellis o f the Manuscript Departmen t
in the Briti s h useum a s amulet s o r charm s again s t
e vil s pirits disease calamity and sudden death
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composed in the Chaldean language mingled with
Hebre w wor ds and written in characters which
combine S yriac a n d Palmyrene with the ancient
Ph oe nician These i n s cription s are un dated ; but
Mr Ellis attained the conclu s ion thro ugh internal
evidence that the s e cups belonged to the d e s ce u
d ants o f the Jews who were carried captive to
Babylon and the surrounding cities
But the most i m portant revelation attained
through these discoveries o f Mr Layard lie s in the
interesting fact mentioned in his work that the
names of the a n gels inscribed o n these cup s and
those recorded in the Book o f Enoch are in many
in s tance s identical so that no dou b t remains as to
the Hebrew Chaldee origin o f that great S emitic
work whether assignable to human genius o r Divi n e
revelation ; and the exhumed amulets o f Jews of
the Di s persion attest the accuracy of Archbisho p
Laurence s conclus ions respecting the nationality o f
P s eudo Enoch
Ignorance o f the contents o f the Apocrypha as
canonized by the C hurch of Rome is so general
in England that many other w ise well informed
people imagine that the Book o f Enoch m a y be
found in its pages whereas it has been lost to all
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English readers except tho s e who may possess o r
h ave acce s s to copie s of the Engli s h translation la s t
issued in 1 83 8 O n this a s pect of the question
Archbishop La urence writes
The fate of the A pocryphal writings in general
has been s ingular O n o ne side from the influence
o f theological opinion o r theological caprice they
have been sometime s 1 nj ud 1 c i o us l v admitted into
the Canon o f S cripture ; while o n t h e other side
from an over anxiety to preserve that Canon i n
violate they have been not simply rej ecte d but
loaded with every epithet of contempt and obloqu y
The feelings perhap s of both parties have o n such
Fo r
occasions run away with their j udgment
writings of thi s description whatever may o r may
not be their claim to inspiration are at least o f
con s iderable utility where they indicate the theo
logical opinions o f the periods at which they were
compo s ed This I appr e hend to be peculiarly the
the case of the Book o f Enoch ; which a s having
been m anifestly written before the doctrines o f
Christianity were promulgated to the world mu s t
a fford us when it refers t o the nature and character
o f the
Mes s iah a s it repeatedly does so refer
credible proof o f what were the Jewish opinion s
upon tho s e points before the birth o f Christ ; and
consequently before t h e possible predominance o f
the C h ri s tian creed
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Archbishop Laurence thus clearly recognized
t h at the vi s ions o f Enoch preceded the teaching o f
Jesus ; but it was n o t given to him or to his
generation to see how deeply his conclusions a ffected
the supernatural claims of Christianity
Tw i ng j o t h e c o nt e n t s o f the Book o f Enoc h
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the first s 1 x chapt ers announce the condemnat i on
s o f the righteous
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advent o f the c
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s t in the famous
f the Epistle attributed to Jud e
Chapters vii t o xvi record th e descent o f t w o
their selection o f
wives the birth o f their gigantic o ffs pring and
the in s truction of mankind in th e manufacture
fensi v e and defen s ive weapons the fabrication
o f of
and the
o f mirrors the w cnk m a n sh i p o f j ewellery
us e o f cosmetics and d yes combined with lessons
in sorcery astrology divination and astronomy
all which Tertullian accepts as Divine revelation
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broidery Babylonian cloth golden bracelets gleam
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emeralds with all the other adj uncts o f an elegant
toilette are the special gifts o f fallen angels to
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.
i
.
xv
iii
I
NTR 0D UC TI ON
.
G a lileo and the m artyrdom o f Bruno ? We answer
that its teaching had survived as numerou s other
superstitions have pa ss ed from generation to genera
tion long after all knowledge o f their origin has
been los t to the theologians who accept them as
Divine
“
In the Evolution o f C h ristianity we cite the
“
following passage from Iren aeus : It is im p ossible
tha t the Gospels can be more o r less t h an they are
For as there are four zones in the world wh i ch we
inhabit and four principal winds while the Church
is spread abroad throughout the earth and the
and basi s o f the Church is the gospel and
should
irit o f life i t
l
four
illars
e x h al i h g i rg
i
m
mh
g
m
g
g
:p
bestowing renewed vital it y o p m e n From which
fa ct
that the Word has given us four
versions of the Gospel united by o n e spirit
We
now recognize that this fanciful theory
of
a
limited
WW
is b a s e m n t h
of Enoch ; and if in the second century Iren aeu s
ahhg oted the visions o f an antediluvian patriarch
f
as fa cts the traditional sur v ival of the earth s
corner stone doubtless controlled the orthodox
astronomy o f medi aeval theologians
,
.
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,
,
,
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m g eL
beh
ld
the
rison
of t
al l e n
hi f
W e
p
angels in which str ug g ling columns of fire ascended
,
INTR ODUC TION
x ix
.
ment he looked up op t h e t re e s o f k n o wle dg e a n d
o f life exhaling fragrant odour s fro m leaves which
n ever withered and from fruit which ever b loomed ;
and he beheld the great and glorious wonder of
the cele s ti al stars coming forth through the gates
o f heaven
ha
t
rs
xxxvii
to
lxxi
record
the
second
vision
e
C p
o f wi s dom
divided into t h re e pg ra b l e s The fir s t
depicts the future h apni ne ss aml g l o ry o f the elect
es in t h e
“m
a
t um
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m
f
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t housands and myriads
fig t fiafi
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o
e s sr
song a s the Holy Holy Lord o f s pirits before whom
righteousne s s eter nally dwell s
As Enoch uttered hi s pro p heci e s re sp e c t i n g t h e
u
of
e 1 t e nce
the
1
t
e fo re
el ep
i m pp rt an t to l e a rp j p w h a t s e n s e heJ l nd e rs t o o d the
on
The language o f the first
“
parable happily leave s no room for doubt?
The
H
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works
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1
duly weighed by the Lord o f Spirits
Election
t h ere fore trace d to its original source means nothing
more than Divine selection of the fitte s t
a
theory more consistent with the justice o f God than
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,
,
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x xx v
i ii 2
.
.
INTR ODUCTION
.
the ca pricious choice o f the m e t a m o rp h i ca l potter
w hose arbitrary fa s hioning o f plastic clay s m b o
y
l i z e d in Pauline theology the doctrine o f predesti
nation
The second parable ( xlv lv ) demands the a h
sorbed attention o f modern Jews and Gentiles ;
for it is either the inspired forecast o f a great
Hebrew
e t predicting with
acc
racy
u
h
p
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W
the fut u1 e teaching o f
Naza i e t h o r the
S emitic romance from which the latt e r borrowed
His conceptions o f the triumphan t return o f the m
o f man
to oc cupy a j udicia l t hrone in the m i dst
,
,
,
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,
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whe ther these celestial
the
years that candid
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as human
influence
af
t
t
h
elationship
o
f
the
Book
f
Enoch
with
o
r
tio n o r the e v o l ut l o n o f Ch rl st —l a n ty
Th e thir d parable ( lvi lxx ) recurs with glowing
eloquence to the inexhaustible theme of Messianic
l
rv
o f the
and
again
depicts
the
happy
future
o
g
ri ght eous l n contrast with the appalling misery o f
the wicked It al s o records the supern atural control
o f the elements
throug h the acti on o f i fl di fi d fa l
angel s presiding over the winds the s e a hail frost
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x xi
.
dew the lightning s fl ash and
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re v e rb e ra t i n
h
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.
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given among whom we recognize some o f the i n
visi b le po w ers named in the incantation s inscribed
o n the terra cotta cups o f Hebrew Chaldee c o n u
j
ration
Chapters lxxi to lxxxi contain the book o f the
revolutions o fthe luminaries o f heaven the sun the
m oon and the s tars controlled in their move m ents
by the admini s tration o f angels In co m menting
o n this section o f the Book o f Enoch
A rchbishop
“
Laurence says This system o f a stronomy is pre
c i se l
that
o f an untutored but accurate o b s e r
y
the heaven s He describes the eastern and w e s
parts o f heaven where the sun and moon ri s e and
erent gates throug h
s e t as di v ided each into s i x diff
which those orbs of light pass at their respective
periods In the denomination o f these gates he
begins with that through which the s un pa s ses at
the winter solstice ; and this he terms the first gate
It o f course answers to the s ign o f Capricornus ; and
is the southernmost point t o which the s un reaches
both at rising and setting The next gate at which
the s un arrives in its progress towards t he c a s t at
ri s ing and towards the west at setting and which
an s wers to the sign o f A quarius he term s the se co n d
gate The next in continuatio n o f the same course
o f the s un which answers to the sign of Pisces he
,
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,
,
,
,
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,
,
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
,
,
,
.
,
,
,
xx
INTR OD UCTION
ii
.
terms the thi rd gate The fo urth gate in his de
scription is that which is situated due c a s t at s un
rising and due west at s un setting and which
answering to the s ign o f Aries the s un enters at the
With thi s fo urth gate he com
v ernal equinox
m e n c e s h i s account of the sun s annual circuit and
o f the consequent change in the length of day and
night at the various season s o f the year His fifth
gate is now to be found in the sun s progress north
And his
w ard s and answers to the s ign o f Tauru s
situated still further north ; which
s i x th gate is
answering to the sign o f Gemini concludes at the
mo s t northern point o f heaven to which the s un
arrives and from w hich it turns at the summer
again to measure back its course south
s olstice
wards
Hence it happe ns that the same gates which
answers to the s i x signs al l uded to in the sun s
passage from the winter to the summer s olstice
nece s sarily also answer to the remaining six o f
the twelve signs o f the Z odiac in its passage back
again
The turning o f the s un both at the winter and
s ummer solstices the first at the most s outhern the
last at the most northern point o f its progre s s must
have always struck the eye o f tho s e who contem
plated the variet y a s well as the splendour o f its
daily appearance The astronomy of t h e apocryphal
.
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NTR 0D UCTI ON
x x ii i
.
Enoch was perhap s formed in this respect upon the
who
s ame principle s as the astronomy o f Ho m er
places the s ituation o f the island Ev p zn under the
turn i n g of the s un 89a p Ofl a i fie h i o ro ( Ody s s lib
xv 4 04 )
Chapters lxxxiii to lxxxix c
i Yi hi L o f
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extendin g from Enoch s o w n j i m e to
thousand years b e yo n d t h e p rese nt g e n e ra t ig n
o ne
m
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m
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do p t e d ,
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s e ven
.
Reference is made to t he j e l ng e the call o f Abra
ham the Mo sa ic di sp e ns ation the building and the
destr uction o f the Te m ple of S olo m on event s
which preceded the d a te a t w h i c h t he Bo ok o f
but when the author“
in h i s character of a di yi nel y l nspi g d se
ds
his vision beyond the horizon of his o w n age he
discloses the M
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however the Book o f Enoch had reached us through
the We s tern as well as the Ethiopic Cano n apolo
getic theologians woul d doubtle s s a ffirm _m
t uri e s are but t ri fl e s in prophetic
at
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,
,
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INTR OD UCTION
.
Chapters xciii to civ contain the eloquent ex
hortations of Enoch addre s sed to his children in
which he follows Buddha in c o m m e n dipg t h e
“
Path s of Righteousne s s and anticipates Jesu s
in pronouncing the doom of sinners and t heq fip g
e
saints and gives t
most emphatic
as s u rance o f immortality which has ever flowed
“
i
man lips : Fear not ye souls o f the
fi orii h u
righteous but wait with pa tient hope fo r the day
Grieve not because
o f your death in righteousness
\ our souls des cend in trouble and sorro w to the
y
receptacle o f the dead for g re a t j oy shall
s
r
li ke that o f the a n g e l si ijn eav en And wh e n you
die sin n ers s ay concerning yo u As w e die t h e
righteous die
What profit have they in their
works
Behold like us they expire in sorrow and
in darkness What advantage have they over us ?
Henceforward are we equal ; for behold they are
dead and never will they again perceive the light
But n o w I sw ear to y o u ye righteous
that I
compreh e n d this m ystery ; that I have read the
tablet of heaven have seen the writing o f the holy
ones and have discovered what is written and
impressed o n it concerning you I have seen that
all goodness j oy and glory have be en pre pared for
you
The spirit s o f you who die i n righteous
ness s hall exist and rej oice and their remembrance
shall be before the face o f the Mighty One from
.
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INTR OD UCTION
.
b ri gh t
be
e a rt h
s h al
p
e l e ct
En
j
it
xci i i
7
.
p
j u tl y
l
ri ch ,
oe
.
h av
ri c h e s
t rus t e d ; b ut
ri ch e s y o u s h a l l b e
xcv i
L uk e
e
h av
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”
.
W
p
e a re ri ch ,
oe
who
sa y ,
th ,
o ss e s s w e a l
y th i n g
a n d h a v e a cqui re d e v e r
w h i ch
then
we
h av
we
No w
.
l w e d o w h a t s o ev
w il
p
t o do ;
a m a ss e d si l v e r ;
dis
w e a re
d e si re
can
e
o se d
er
fo r
o ur
b a rns a re ful l
T h e y sh al l
s ure l y d i e s ud d e n l y
pl
e a ch
a ce
t h ro n e
p
26
.
y
of
gl
of
e c ul i arl
.
hi s
.
p
y
En
w
.
of
,
own
I
.
p
e rs o n s
th e m
or
En l x i i 1 1
m e nt s h e
ay s
.
And I
L uke
a ra bl e
no
m e rry
i ii
2
.
who
L o rd
of s
h av
pi
e re e c t e d
ri t s
.
It
ha l l
xix
.
si t
l
th e
w o ul
d
e
”
.
,
of
28
.
on
a l so
Ye
.
tw el
the t w e l v
v e
e
t h ro n e s ,
t ri be s
of
”
.
Ro m
.
re s
Go d
e re
p
u
n
no
re qui re d
be
.
I sra e l
b e e n be t t e r fo r t h e m
h a d t h e y n e v e r b e e n b o rn
h av
s
j ud gi g
o f s i nn e rs
j
g
y
or
l ai d
o o ds
But Go d s a i d un t o
h i m T h o u fo o l , t h i s n i h t t h y
gl
Wh
.
g
.
sh al
”
x xx v
.
up fo r m a n y y e a rs , t a k e t h i n e
d ri n k , a n d b e
e a se ,
e at ,
a
j
p
.
p
C o m are th e
of
t h e ri c h m a n
w h o s e b a rn s w e re ful l , a n d
“
w h o s a i d t o h i m s e l f,
So ul ,
x 11
on
h i s udg
re s e c t t o
n
y o ur
fo r y e
c o n so l a
.
M a tt
l
.
i l l t h e h a b i t a ti o n
be
wil
un t o
oe
”
th e e
cv
W
"
ri c h
a re
re ce i v e d
e
s o ul
.
.
.
,
.
En
.
“
t h o u h a s t m uc h
’
“
p
i 24
v
re m o v e d
.
.
.
yo u th a t
s i n n e rs ,
un t o y o u,
.
p
fro m y o ur
6, 7 , 25
.
Fa t h e r
.
ti o n
.
o f th e i r
ki n g
Ja m e s v 1
Go t o n o w ,
and b o w l
y e ri ch m e n , w e e
fo r y o ur m i s e ri e s t h a t sh a l l
”
co m e u o n y o u
ol
yo u
En
i n th e
s un
“
Th o se , to o ,
y o ur
fo r i n
th e
as
.
d a n d s i l v e r,
s udde n l y
an d
t o y o u w h o a re
s
e ri s h
do m
W
w h o a c qui re
s h al
.
”
.
g
fo rth
Th e
h
e
t
n
d
a
;
oy
re o i ce
l
o s se s s
.
j
w i th
p
e ct
of
Fo r t h e re 1 s
e rs o n s w i t h
p
”
.
M a t t xx v i
.
.
24
.
g
W
oe
un t o
t h a t m a n t h ro u h w h o m t h e
"
b e t ra y e d I t
go o d fo r t h a t ma n
n o t b e e n b o rn
m an i s
So n
of
w o ul
d be
i fhe had
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.
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I
En
xix
.
fice
s a c ri
2
.
“
.
So t h a t t h e y
to de v i l s
as
G
to
o ds
.
x x 11
.
p
.
.
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g
g
p
.
.
.
.
w
xxv
ii
g
1 Co r x 20
Th e t h i n s
w h i ch t h e
e n t i l e s sa cri ce ,
t h e y s a c ri fi ce t o d e v i l s , a nd
.
.
L uke
gi
t w e e n us
g
.
i
g
on of
( Abra h am
26
.
Di v
fro m
es
th e
bl e sse d
th e
a nd
gul f fi
re a t
fi
”
xv
a dd re ss i n
re
.
G
t o Go d
no t
10, 1 2 ( Th e a n e l
R a h a e l a ddre s si n Eno ch i n
t h e re i o n o f t h e d e a d
He re t h e i r so ul s a re se a
”
ra t e d
by a ch a sm
( ‘
En x x x i x 3 , 4 , 7 M A
c l o ud t h e n s na t ch e d m e up
En
ON
Be
y o u t h e re i s
xe d
a
”
.
2 Co r x i i
I w i l l co m e
t o v i s i o n s a n d re v e l a t i o n s o f
t h e L o rd
I k ne w a m a n i n
C h ri s t
ca u h t up t o t h e
t h i rd h e a v e n ,
w h e th e r i n
“
.
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.
g
the
an
g
of
un d e r t h e w i n
el s
th e
L o rd
the h o l y
of s
a nd
pi
th e
ri t s
g
ca nn o t
s
Al l
.
e l e ct
s un
g
b e fo re h i m i n a ppe a ra n ce
l i k e a bl a ze o f fire
th e i r
m o ut h s b e i n g ful l o f b l e s s
,
,
i ng s,
th e i r
a nd
fy i ng t h e
o f s i ri t s
p
li
nam e o f
p gl
b o d y o r o ut
s
o ri
th e
L o rd
”
Ho w
i nt o
s
p
ea
no t
th at h e w as
p
k a b l e w o rd s
l a w ful fo r
So n
'
v
eaI
al
.
g
2
T hi s"i s t h e
h n mv i l l re
.
l t h e t re a sure s
ix
.
a rt
o d s,
o rd ,
L o rd
Ki n
g
of
th a t
T h en t h e y
i f
to t he i r L
Th o u
of
.
t
Eri
sa i d
xl v i
t h e Ki n
o f l o rd s ,
of
k i n gs
.
g
:
Go d
Th e
c a ug
w h i ch
,
it is
m an
a
to
”
ut t e r
.
g
Rev
xix
.
i n h e av
1
.
v o i ce
re a t
L o rd
.
.
h t up
a n d h e a rd un
a ra d i s e ,
e n,
h o no ur,
En
bo d y I
kno w e t h
Go d
tel l :
o
.
I
h e a rd
f m uc h
p pl
eo
a
e
yi n g A l l e l ui a
gl o ry a nd
and
,
p
an d
o ur
“
sa
sal v a ti o n,
.
o ft h e
Go d
,
,
unt o t h e
o w e r,
”
.
“
I n w h o m a re
Co l i i 3
h i d a l l t h e t re a s ure s o f w i s
”
d o m a nd k no w l e d e
.
.
.
g
Re v
Ki n
l o rd s
.
g
xv i i
of
.
14
k i n gs
,
.
16
a nd L o rd o f
xix
.
.
.
Re v
.
iv
.
11
“
.
Th o
u
a rt
I
iii
xxv
e v e r and
gl
th y
of
t h ro ne
.
y
i s fo r
or
a nd
e v e r,
NTR 0D UCTI ON
fo r
e v er
i s th y n a m e s a nct i
T h o u a rt
fie d a n d g l o ri e d
bl e ss e d a n d l o ri e d T h o u
a nd
ev e r
fi
g fi
.
h a s t m a de
p
p
o s s e sse s t
th i n
o
al
p
g
thi n
g
En
l a st i n
.
n
a re d
a re
s
so rro w ,
m e nt
a
th e
l
h as
a nd
i t,
the y
th e
d i s t re s s ,
e a
e a rt h ,
as
a nd
th e m
e
pu i
n sh
a
g
v en
c re a t e d
He b
”
.
.
Al l
of
p
.
b ut
th e
an
g
el s
.
.
x
.
15 , 16
.
iv
.
g
unt o t h e
w i t h wh o m
Re v
s i de
.
xxi i
of
th e
l i fe ,
2
ri v
“
e
of
him
e r w as
tw e l
m o nt h ;
o f t h e t re e
he al i n
g
a nd
w e re
the
of
v e
yi e l d e d
e v e ry
e av e s
.
t re e
a
ba re
f
.
”
e i th e r
On
.
;
a nd
t o do
o f rui t s , a n d
i t s frui t
si g h t
ke d
ye s
hav
we
.
e
w h i ch
m a nn e r
t i o ns
s a re n a
is
th a t i s
c re a t ure
l thi n
e ne d
of
Ne i th e r
“
13
.
a ny
al
na
.
7
To h i m t h a t
o v e rc o m e t h w i l l I
i v e to e a t
o f t h e t re e o f l i fe , w h i c h i s i n
t h e m i ds t o f t h e
ara d i s e o f
Re v
.
11
.
.
g
p
Go d
”
.
To
ri
Re v
Mi ch a e l
.
x x1 1
gh t t
.
.
.
t h e t re e
o
ix 1
.
fa l l fro m
e a rth
ower
En
.
m a n i fe s t i n h i s
no t
p
we re
a nd
a re ,
”
.
t h e re
o
p
th e y
s ure
Re v
.
.
En 1x 1 3
a nd
14
Bl e ss e d a re
t h e y t h a t d o h i s c o mm a n d
m e nt s, t h a t t h e y m a y h a v e
”
En l x xxv 2
And b e h o l d
s i n l e s t ar fe l l
fro m h e a
.
h o n o ur,
; fo r t h o u h a s t c re a t e d
a l l t h i n g s , a n d fo r t h y
l ea
th e
.
re ce i v e
to
,
ow er
fo r t h e
l iv ed ;
da ys s h a l l
i n th ei r
a nd
,
sw ee t
l l iv
hav
y
or
L o rd
O
t he l
i n to th e i r
sh a l
gl
p
y
de
iv e it
g
wo ul d
e nt e r
on
ffl i c t
ev er
t re e fo r t h e
fo re fa th e rs
n e i th e r
I bl e sse d
Th e
a nd
l i fe
,
be
ca n
b e ca us e He
.
o d o ur s h a l
th y
,
y
th a t h e
b o ne s ;
“
or
t hi s
th e m
g
gl
fo rm e d
c l a re d
l on
g
.
.
,
of
g
th e e
1 1 10
g Ki g
s a i nt s ,
to
s
th i n
l
al
fro m
xxi v
.
L o rd
re
; th o u
o v er al l
ow er
a n d no th i n
s,
co n ce a l e d
p p
g
m a n i fe s t b e fo re
T h o u b e h o l de s t a l l
.
th e
l thi n
a nd
en
th ee
a nd
s :
.
w o rth
I
.
h e av
e
o fl
i fe
sa w a
n
un t o
”
.
s ta
r
th e
”
.
2 T h e ss i
ow er
o f Hi s
.
p
Jud e 6
“
.
Th e
an
g
el s
.
.
Th e
an
g l whi
e s
ch
INTR
L o rd
th e
a l so ,
ya
z
and
a
a re w i t h
h av
w ho
hi m
a s s o ci a t e d w i t h w o m e n
se v e n t
Bi n d t h e m fo r
ra t i o n s
g
g
e ne
e art h ,
un de rne a t h t h e
j g
t o t h e d a y o f ud m e n t ,
a nd o f c o n sum m at i o n, unt i l
e v en
j ud g m
th e
l a s t fo r
Then
aw a
e v e r,
sh a l
y
w hi c h
e n t,
be
co m
the y b e
l
i nto t h e l
o w e st
sh a l
pl
.
p
in
c o n fine m e n t
up fo r
e te d
d e th s
t h e fire i n t o rm e n t s ,
s h ut
l
ta ke n
of
sh al
i ng
a nd
l th e y b e
ev er
.
th e i r
re se rv e d
judg m
th e
day
re a t
2 P
et
in
,
,
e v e rl a s t
un de r d a rk n e ss ,
ch a i n s
un t o
.
y
firs t e s t a t e
l e f t t h e i r o w n h a bi t a t i o n
no t
h e h ath
ho
be e n
e
k e pt
b ut
t o Sa m
o t h e rs w
to th e
xx i x
.
an d
Go
c ri m e
h is
a n no un c e
sa i d ,
'I
UC T ON
of
e nt
.
4
th e
p
“
Go d s a re d
no t t h e
an e l s w h e n
th e y
s i nn e d , b ut c a s t t h e m d o w n
t o h e l l , a n d c o mm i t t e d t h e m
i t s o f d a rk n e s s , t o b e
to
”
re s e rv e d un t o ud m e nt
“
Re v x x 1 0
Th e d e v i l
t h a t d e c e i v e d t h e m w a s ca s t
i n t o t h e l a k e o f fire a nd
b ri m s to ne ,
a nd s h a l l b e
11
.
.
.
g
p
j g
.
.
.
t o rm e n t e d d a y
ev er
.
gh t f
a nd n i
or
”
.
En
co l
’
56
.
m
éth
t
um
M
td g
xx i
.
n
’
er
“
.
th e
o
I be h e l d
g
g
st ru g l i n
e nd o f t h e
Re v
an
an
h e av
.
.
th e y
ke p t
p
g
fo r
g
.
pp
.
el
co m e
h av i n
g
And I s aw
d o w n fro m
th e
bo tt o m l e s s
and
g re a t
a
h and
An d
.
t h e d e v il
i nt o t h e
s h ut
him
.
it
he
pit
ch a i n
k ey
of
( a by s s )
in his
l ai d h o l d o n
a nd
ca s t
hi m
bo t to m l e s s
p i t, and
a nd s e a l e d i t o v e r
.
.
I n t h e days
En l xxi x
o f s i n n e rs t h e y e a rs s h a l l b e
and
e v e ry
s h o rt e n e d ,
t h i n d o ne o n e a rt h s h a l l b e
e a r i n i ts
s ub v e rt e d a n d di sa
I n t h o se d a y s
s e a so n
g
g
1— 3
.
ev er
“
.
xx
e n,
th e
B ut n e i t h e r i t s
d e sce n t
m eas ure me nt n o r m a g n i tud e
w a s I a bl e t o di s c o v e r
Uri e l , o n e o f t h e h o l y a n e l s
ri s o n
s a i d, T h i s i s t h e
o f t h e a n e l s , a n d h e re a re
.
Ma tt
7 , 21 2 2 29, 3 0
T h e re s h a l l b e fa m i n e s a nd
l a ce s
e a rt h qua k e s i n d i v e rs
g
.
xx i v
re a t
.
the
.
,
t ri b ul a t i o n ,
a s w a s n o t s i nce
o f t h e w o rl
,
p
s uc h
b e g i nni n g
d to t hi s t i m e ,
no ,
X XX
the
frui ts
no t
fl o uri s h i n t h e i r s e a so n ,
h e a v e n s h a l l s ta n d s t i l l
of
th e
sh al
e a rth
l
n o r e v e r sh al
ce
p p
p
g
up a
l xi 9
s h ut
be
En
.
z
l
se i
sh a l
l
beh o l d
e
si tti n
m an
gl
o fh i s
y
fl e sh
se e n a t
i ts
di a te l y
and
s t a rs s h a l
l
b e d a rk e ne d ,
”
.
t ro ub l e
h e n th e y
of wo
t h e t h ro ne
.
sh al
l
H
En xl v i i 3
t h e t h ro ne o f h i s l o ry ,
t h e bo o k o f t h e l i v i n
o
p
a ro un d a n d
En l
.
en
t ri b e s
b
,
l
o wes
.
o
p
l
sh a l
I
.
g
b e i mm e r
w
ed
fro m
.
“
i nt o
h ol y
th e
”
n
t h e m o ut h
e ne d
se l e ct
l
and
th e m
En l i v
sh al
d e s t ruc t i o n
t h a t w h i ch i t
and
ri g h t e o us
g
e ne d ,
t h o se da ys
of
hel l
he
h i ch t h e y s h a l l
h
l
l
e
;
s h al
l de
th i n
an d
I
.
re a t
saw
t h ro n e ,
a nd
i t,
a nd
s w
ed
hat
w h i ch
a nd
l i fe ,
j udg
th e
dead
of
th ose
o ut
we re
is
the
w ri t t e n
b o o k s a cc o rd i n g
w o rk s
And t h e s e a
the
bo o k
a n o th e r
p
g
f
d e a d, s m a l l a nd
s t a n di n
b e fo re t h e
; a nd t h e b o o k s w e re
w e re
h el l
g
o
th e
d e l i v e r up
t h a t w h i ch i t h a s
fro m
l the
c l o ud s
o w e r a nd
sa t o n
of
up
l
th e
,
bo o k
er
sh al
sh al
g
re a t ,
p
g
—
1
1 13 1 5
h er
He
a mon
sa w
t h ro n e
o
th e m o o n
m o urn ;
th e So n o f
se e
w h i te
I
.
l
n
O e ne d ,
re s t o re
.
re a t
a nd
th o s e d a y s
n
a nd
re c e i v e d ,
.
re s e n ce ,
him
shal
xx
.
hi m that
”
l
.
w as
g
sh a l
e a rt h
gi
wi t h p
g
be fo re
de l i v
h e rs ,
g
a
no
”
Re v
on
w hi l e
y
or
a nd
th e
co m i n
e n,
s un
Th e n
th e y
a nd
d
t h e t ri b ul a t i o n
.
of
d be
h e r l i h t , a nd
sh a l l
fa l l fro m
s t a rs
h e av
ex
Im m e
.
v e
w as
I
.
e a rt h
fro m
s h al
p
p
u
o w e rs w h i c h
l th e
a bo v e t h e h e a v e n s s to o d
w e re
w om
g
al
w h il e
th e
.
i n hi s
e ne d
p
e sa t
gi
no t
th e
gl
s h o ul
t h o se d a y s , t h e
m an
”
.
ft e r
a
of
he av
.
sav e d
l
w
on
be
s h o ul
t h e re
al
t h i s So n
g up
or
i ts
An d
th em
s h al
e
a i n s t s i n n e rs
.
.
g
ch a n
And
.
da ys
t h o se
s h o rte n e d ,
.
Th e m o o n s h a l l
l a w s , a nd n o t b e
e ri o d ;
ro e r
t h e cl a s se s o f t h e
pt
l be
,
.
in
t o t hei r
g
t h e d e a d w h i ch w e re
av e
in
up
i t,
a nd
d e a t h a n d h e l l d e l i v e re d
up t h e d e a d w h i c h w e re i n
An d w h o s o e v e r
th em
w a s n o t fo un d w ri t t e n i n t h e
.
b o o k o f l i fe
l a k e o f fire
.
w a s ca s t
i nt o th e
NTR 0D UCTI ON
I
.
y a nd s w a l l o w up si nn e rs
fro m t h e fa ce o f t h e e l e c t
Aft e r t h i s I
En x l 1
b e h e l d t h o usa n ds o f t h o u
s t ro
”
.
.
a nd
s a nd s ,
t h o us a n d
te n
t i m e s t e n t h o us a n d ,
in
fi
ni t e
s t a nd i n
s
pi
ri t s
En
g
e,
of
xl v
3
.
I
.
gl
of
th a t d ay
si t u o n
n
p
c o un t l e ss
y
or
,
and s h a l
11
.
h e a rd
an
g
h a bi t a t i o n s
”
.
el s
ro und
4
I n th a t d a y I
w i l l caus e m y El e c t On e t o
d w e l l i n th e m i d st o f t h e m
I w i l l ch a n g e t h e fa ce o f t h e
ti m e s
.
h e av
en :
I
w
bl e s s
il l
i l l um i n a t e i t fo r
a l s o ch a n e t h e
I
e a rt h :
g
w il
I
ev er
.
fa c e
bl e s s
l
it
w hom
ca use
th o se
ch o se n
to dw e l l u
p
on
and
wil
th e
of
a nd
i t,
I
it
l
h av
a
pp
.
xc i i
e ar
l
p
of
“
4 9
—
.
.
h i s m o ut h
s i nne rs ,
-s
a nd
Th e
h al l
al
l
n um
be r
a nd
t h o us a nd s
”
.
“
Th e n
3 1, 3 2
s h a l l h e s i t u o n t h e t h ro ne
o f hi s
l o ry ; a nd be fo re h i m
sh a l l b e
a t h e re d a l l n a t i o n s
a n d h e s h a l l se a ra t e t h e m
x xv
.
fro m
Re v
si t te t h
p
a n o th e r
”
.
2
.
“
.
h o us e
ii
eter
l e ss ,
w e,
I
my
n
m a ny
a re
”
.
15
.
“
.
th e
on
dw e l l
2 P
p
.
p
xi v
v
.
.
g
g th
amo n
.
He
th at
t h ro n e
em
i i i 13
l
.
Ne v
.
sh a l
”
a cco rd i n
g
e rt h e
hi s
to
m i se , l o o k fo r n e w h e a v e n s
a n d a ne w
e a rth , w h e re i n
ro
d w e l l e th
ri
Re v
h e av
th e
.
x x1 1
gh t
w o rd
d e s tro y
t h e nu
.
1
e n and
fi rs t
e o us ne s s
p
I
.
a
h e av
e a rt h w e re
.
.
al
p
”
En l x i
of
.
th e
th e
”
.
.
“
.
b o ut
e
17
Th e fo rm e r
h e a v e n s h a l l d e a rt a n d a s s
h e a v e n s h al l
a w ay, a n e w
En
many
of
t h o usa n d ,
te n
Ma t t
.
.
a nd
,
t h e m w a s t e n t h o usa n d
of
h a bi t a ti o n s
xl v
a
and
Jo h n
’
fa t h e r s
.
v o i ce
t h ro n e ,
o ne
En
I be h e l d
.
th e
g
l
a nd
co n di t i o ns
th ei r
c h o o se
I
v
.
t h o usa nd s
.
t h ro n e
a
eo
L o rd
th e
l t h e El e ct One
sh a l
p pl
of
n um b e r
b e fo re
a nd a n
”
.
Re v
.
.
s a w a ne w
n e w e a rt h ,
fo r
W
rs t
e n and
fi
the
a s se d a w a
y
.
h o sh a l l
2 T h e ss i 9
b e un i s h e d w i t h e v e rl a s ti n
de s truc ti o n fro m t h e re se nce
p
.
.
.
p
g
INTR ODUCTION
xx xii
g
p
o dl
.
y
w h o s hal
re s e n ce
u
th e m ,
on
ai
s h al
p
u
as
his
on
l
tion
a n o th e r
l
l
sh a l
and
t o ni s h e d ,
.
p
; th e y
be
s h al
l
c o un t e n a n c e s
th e i r
t ro ub l e
h e n th e y
se i
l
shal
s h al
z
of
t h e t h ro ne
ba se
a nd
;
th em ,
e
be h o l d
l
o f w o m an si tt i n
So n
as
a
Hi s
gl
th i s
g up
y
or
of
gl
on
L o rd
th e
y
The ss
l xv i
v al
t h at
5 8
.
.
sh a l
a s t ro n
a ro s e
p h u wh i
r
g
sm e l
l
no t e sca
be ca m e
ch
m o ut h
th e
v al
o f th e an
l ey
a nd
w a te rs ;
w i th
y
or
g
e l s, w
h o h ad
b e e n gui l t y o f s e d uct i o n
b urne d un d e rn e a t h i t s so i l
g
T h ro u h
of
ri v e rs
fire
t o w h i ch t h e
an
co n d e m n e d , w
i n h a bi t a n t s
En
.
a
g
l
ne ss
thin
hood
s
”
.
.
wil
l
g
,
l be
s e d uc e d
ho
sh al
l
I po i nt
g
f up i gh t
p k il
re ss
r
s
ea
.
,
.
p
t h e S i ri t
hi
of
s
.
xxv
31
.
sh a l
xi i i
.
42
.
t h e m i nt o
in his
co m e
l he
gl
o fh i s
“
.
a
th e
e
.
m a n sh a l l
the n
Wh n
“
p
si t
u
on
y
And sh al l
furna ce o f
or
.
”
.
Ma t t
fro m
xxv
.
th e d e v i l
Re v
de v i l
.
g
De
p
a rt
p p
a nd
ang e l s
his
.
10
And t h e
th a t
d e ce i v e d t h e m
xx
w a s ca s t
a nd
.
y e c urs e d , i n t o
fire , re a re d fo r
m e,
e v e rl a s t i n
41
.
'
“
.
.
i n to th e l a ke
bri m s t o ne
of
fire
”
.
.
t ra n s
w o rd o
e
th e
Ma ny s i n n e rs
a nd
T he y
.
g
th e
e l s sh a l
No w
.
t urn
a i ns t
g
o ft h e e a rt h
m y s t e ry
o ut a
sh a l
ci v
fl ow in
w e re
.
a l so
v al l ey
th a t
,
”
.
Ma t t
fire
th e
T he n
.
”
of
ca st
m i xe d
p
.
w i th
s um e
Mat t
o f s ul
l
3
.
p
.
.
w h i ch
l ey i n
v
.
“
2 T h e ss i i 8
T h a t w i ck e d
w h o m t h e L o rd s h a l l co n
”
I be h e l d
.
p
t h e t h ro n e
.
ow er
d e s t ruct i o n co m e t h
u o n t h e m a s t ra v a i l u o n
a w o m a n w i th ch i l d , a n d t h e y
gl
En
th e
s udde n
Son
“
fro m
a nd
,
p
ofh i s
or
1
a
One p o r
o f t h e m sh al l l o o k u o n
i n t ra v
w o m an
w
e ri sh a t
T ro ubl e
.
p
co m e
p
l
ev
; t h e y s h a l l ut t e r fa l s e
p
1 Ti m i v 1 2
Th e S i ri t
s a i t h e x re s s l y , t h a t i n l a t e r
.
.
.
p
ti m es
fro m
some
sh a l
fa i th
t h e h y p o cri s y
spe ak l i e s
th e
”
.
l
fa l l
awa
g
y
t h ro u h
,
of
me n th at
x xxiv
I
NTR
O D UC TI ON
.
The bracketed word s in the last quotation from
the Book o f Enoch establ ish its complete i de nt i t v
with the parallel passage in the Epistle o f Jude
identity o f marvellou s clearne s s when we
an
consider that the original vers ion reache s us
through translation s and retranslation s from A ra
m ac an Greek and Ethiopic and now as s ume s the
modern form o fA nglo S axon A rchbi s hop Laurence
although convinced that the apo s tle cited the
Greek version o f the extant Ethiopic manu s cripts
w a s not aware that the last s entence o f his quo
We h ave dis
t a t i o n is pre s ent in the text
covered i t in chapter xxvi 2 o f the Book o f
Enoch ; and in thus perfecting the paralleli s m
between prophe t and apo s tle have placed beyond
controversy that in the eye s o f the author o f an
Epistle accepted as Divine revelation the Book
was
the inspired pro duction o f an
o f Enoch
antediluvian patriarch
The attention o ftheologian s h a s been concentrated
o n the passage in the Epi s tle o f Jude because the
author specificall y names the prophet ; but the
cumulative coincidence o f language and ideas in
Enoch and the authors of Ne w Te s tament S cripture
as disclo s ed in the parallel pa s sages which we h a v e
collated clea rly indicates that the work of the
S emitic Milton w a s the inexhau s tibl e source fro m
w h ich Eva n gelists and Apostles or the men who
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wrote in their names borrowed their conceptions o f
the resurrection judgment immortality perdition
and o f the univers al re i gn o f righteousness under
the eternal dominion o f the S on o f man Thi s
e v angelical plagiaris m culminates in the Rev e la
tion o f John which adapts the visions o f Enoch
to C hristianit y with modifications in which we mi s s
the sublime simplicity o f the great master o f apoca
l y p t i c prediction who prophesi ed in the name o f the
antediluvian patriarch
It is important to observe that it was n o t t h e
practice o f early Christian writers to name the
authors who s e language and ideas they borrowed
When we therefore detect the teaching and dicti on
o f Enoch in Gospel s and Epi s tles o ur conclu s ions a re
a nalogous to those o f the orthodox theologians w h o
identify p a ssages o f S cripture in the pages o f t he
ante Nicene Fathers although frequently ci t ed from
unnamed sources with an obscurity o f expression
more dubious in atte s tation o f t heir origin than the
remarkable clearness with which the language o f
Enoch may be recognized in the New Testament
Biblical analysts may qu estion obscure traces o f
e v angelical diction in apo s tolic Fathers ; b ut what
c a ndid and impar t ial inq uirer can doub t t h e
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S on o f man sitting upon
En o c h i a n o ri g l n o f the
the throne o f h i s glory
the
new heaven
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the elect and the everlasting fire prepared fo r
the devil and his angels
We have merely collated s ome o fthe most striking
instances of parallel pa s s ages in the Book o f Enoch
and in the New Testament O ur reader s can sup
plement o ur labours through their o w n research in
further attestation o f the controlling influence
exerci s ed by the uncanonical author o n the language
and ideas of canonical works
S ome orthodox theologians unwilling to admit
that an apostle quoted an apocryphal b o o k c o n t e n d
that Jude referred to a traditional utterance o f the
ancient patriarch ; but this obviously fanciful theory
inevitably vanishe s 1 n the presence of the numerous
pas s age s from the Book of Enoch which enter into
the composition o f Ne w Testament S cripture O ther
pious apologists a ffir m the po s t Christi a n authorship
book a theory which involves the mo s t
o f the
impro b able assumption that a n author familiar
wit h the s tory of a su ffering and crucified Messiah
uttered fictitious predictions in the name o f a n
a ncient prophet which depicted the career of the
S on o f man on earth as the triumphal march of
a victorious king Again theologians who s hrink
from the admission that the language and ideas of
e v angelists and apo s tles were anticipated in a n
apocryphal book suggest that the Me s s ianic passages
contain Christian interpolations But if moder n
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u
of
d efenders
the faith thus a ccuse primitive s aint s
and marty rs o f li terary forgery how can they accept
an infallible New Te s tament at the hand s o f men
thus guilty o f cons piring fo r the deception o f
posterity ? Convinced o f the hone s ty o f early
Christians we concur with the opinion o f A rch
bishop Laurence confirmed by Ho ffm an that the
passages i n que s tion are s o intimately interwove n
with the general context that they cannot be
re moved without evidently destroying the texture
o f the whole
The a s tronomical calculations o n which A rch
bishop Laurence ba s ed his theory o f the re s idence o f
the author o f the Book o f Enoch have been ques
t i o n e d ; but once his Hebrew nationality has been
admitted it matters not whether he wrote in o r o ut
o f Palestine with this exception that if the work
was not brought from a distant country into Jud aca
the facility with which a pse udon y mous book was
accepted in the local ity o f its recent composition
the genuine production o f an antediluvian
as
prophet necessarily encourages scepticism as t o
the d ates and authorship o f all ancient Hebre w
literature It cannot be said that internal evidence
atte s ts the superiorit y o f the O ld Testament to the
Book o f Enoch ; fo r no Hebre w prophet i s more
e loquent than its author in d enouncing iniquity
c o mmending righteousness
and inviting all men
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place implicit trust in the final vindication o f
Divine ju s tice
Internal evidence indicates the presence o f inde
pendent Tracts i n the Book of Enoch possibly
composed by different authors Th us chapters lxiv
to lxvii 1 record a vision o f the Deluge narrated
as if by Noah instead o f Enoch and inserted in the
middle of another vision with which it has no con
n e c ti o n
But if Pseudo Enoch borrowed from
earlier writers the presence o f the language and
ideas o f every section o f his work in the pages of
New Test a m e nt S cripture inevitably indicates that
the Book o r Books o f Enoch existed in their present
form before the Christian era
Christianit
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obviously
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terrors
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e ternal fire from the Book of Enoch
and Apostles define the duration of Divine retribu t ion
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by aeons Of EEODS ( a i i tfw e g 1 5 1 a i n mw v ) 0 1 million s
expre s sive o f eternity It i s
o f millions o f years
true that the word aeon can be used in the sense of
finite time but when the authors o f New Testament
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S cripture speak o faeonian fire r ep 6 i u wt o v ) they
obviousl y mean eternal flames Modern humanity
shrinking from so mercile s s a view o f Divine retri
b ut i o n suggests that when sinners have been
to
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t i o n , o r t i m e e v e rl a s t i n g , w a s t h e t i tl e a d o p t e d b y Va l e n t i n us fo r
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tortured fo r aeons o f aeons they ma y look forward
hopefully to the future It is questionable whether
final de s pair would not be preferable to thi s for m o f
h ope d e ferred ; but if modern believers adop t t h e
terminable theory of aeoni a n fire this commutation
o f sentence becomes equally applicable to the devil
and his angel s whose puni s hment has been decreed
1
o f same duration as that o f human sinners ;
a nd
thus t h e traditional enemies of Go d and man ma y
h Op e fo r j oyful restoration to fellowship with
Gabriel Michael and Raphael and communion
with the s aint s whom the y once s ought t o b e tray
by arts infernal A nd as the righ t e ous are also
only promised their rewards i n heaven fo r aeon s o f
2
if these words mean not eternity saints may
aeon s
fear whil s t s inner s hope for the vici s s itude s o f
A gain as the dominion o f the
ae onian futurity
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3
Me ss iah and even the power o f God are depicted
o f aeonian duration any limitation o f the infinite in
the sacred terminology aeons o f aeons imperils the
eternal in Divinity
Theologians who seek to vindicate Divine clemency
through the dubious expedient o fsubsti t uting aeonian
for eternal retribution overlook the fact that their
theory imputes to Divine wi s dom the adoption of
torture as the most e ffectual means o f tran s forming
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sinners into saints a theory which practically
invites us to follo w the Divine example by torturing
How much more
o ur criminal s into reformation
consi s tent for those who cannot reconcile eternal
fire with infinite mercy to take o n e step further in
the paths of s ceptici s m by rej ecting e v e 1 l a s t i n g to i
cm g p l
n s ; in s tead
ture as the m
n g htw
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m
hg
o f assuming that revelation speaks in language so
ambig uous that primitive saints condemned un h ap
t i z e d babe s to eternal fire whilst modern piety
w ould even rescue hardened sinners from the flames
If in s pired terminology encouraged spiritual ferocit y
in the age o f S t Augustine and fosters theological
humanity in the nineteenth century what may not
be the future interpretation o f word s now s upposed
to convey an infallible meanin g to students of
S cripture ?
The Book o f E no ch t eaches t he pre e x i s t e nce m f
the S o n o f a n the Elect O ne the Me ssiah who
1
from the beginning existed l n secret
and whose
name was invoked l n the p 1 e se n ce of the Lord o f
2
s pirits before the s un and the signs were created
The author also refers to the other Power who was
3
upon earth over the water o n that day
an
apparent reference to the language o f Gen i 2
We have thus the Lord o f spirits the Elect O ne
and a third Power seemingly foreshadowing the
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inspired prophet who predicted the teaching of
Chri stianit y he was a visionar y enthu s iast w hose
illusions were accepted by Evangelists and Apostles
as revelation alternative conclu s ions which involve
t h e Divine o r human origin of Christianity
It may be said that if the author o f the Book o f
Enoch was n o t the patriarch in who s e name he
wrote was he not obviously an impostor ? I n
treating o f Hebre w d ivination in The Evolution o f
Christianity we refer to the oracles o f Urim and
the predictions o f Prophet s There was however a
third form o f divination known as Bath Kol or the
Daughter o f the V oice through which the I s raelite s
consulted the Deity by accepting some preconceived
s ign in attestation o f the Divine approval o f con
t e m p l a t e d action
This method o f artificial (r sxv ucfi)
divination is said to have succeeded the revel a tion
o f prophets but was practised by the Isra elites at
a m uch earlier period o f their history Thu s the
servant o f Abraham predetermined the sign through
which he would recognize the future wife o f Isaac
as divinely chosen ; and Jonathan the so n o f S aul
preconcerted the verbal omen through which the
Israelites might know that Jehovah had delivered
the Philistines into th e ir hands
The practice o f Bath Ko l w a s doubtless familiar
to the S emitic author o f the Book o f Enoch ; let us
not therefore condemn him as an impostor knowing
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that through t h e accidental syn chronism o f s ome
pre arranged sign he may have per s onated Enoc h
in the conscientious conviction that he was piou s ly
fulfilli n g the will o f the Deity
The recent death o f Dr Pusey recalls the fact
that the learned tran slator o f the Book o f Enoch
was his predecessor a s Profe s sor o f Hebrew in the
University o f O xford The friend s and admirers
who was o n e of the
o f the eminent theologian
a uthors o f the Tractarian movement
propose to
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found a memorial Library in his name with two
o r more clergymen who shall act a s librarians and
shall promote i n w ha te v er w a y the interests o f
theological st udy and religio us life within the
University
program m e which seem s to i n
a
a ugurate the reign o f original research within the
domains o f eccle s iastical theology But if as we
are informed by the promoters of t h e proposed
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en dowment Dr Pusey was above all thing s a
Christian apologi s t the advocate and champion of
the Chu rch o f eighteen centuries h o w can the
disciple s who sa w in him the great pillar which
once s ustained the for t une s o f the Church o f
Engl a nd encourage a freedom o f inquir y in h i s
name w hich may result in c onclusions advers e t o
the eccle s iastical faith in which their master lived
and died ?
Eminent theologians tell us that the future
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ibrarians should be st udent s o f theology the
queen o f sciences among whom Dr Pu s e y held
a po s ition in t h e fir s t rank ; and yet that he w a s
a zealous supporter o f a movement which embodied
trut h s included ages ago in the formularies o f the
Church
But how can theology be enrolled among
the sci ences if its professors rea s on in ecclesiastical
fetters ? As wel l might a modern astronomer
d emand the assent o f h i s pupils to the medi aeval
theory o f the earth s im m obility before proceeding
to investigate t h e laws o f the sola r s y stem : and
thus doubtless most theologians seek Divine truth
weighted with a heritag e of foreg one conclusions
advers e to the admission o f unorthodox facts
We all can sympathize with the de s ire o f his
disciples to do honour to the memory o f the
Tractarian apostle o f many virtues in whom they
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se e a
great man raised up by God A lmighty to
live and labour for His Church ; but men who take
this transcendental v ie w o f a movement in which
others simply s e e progres s o n the road to Rome
can scarcely consider the prescriptive rights o f
primitive o r medi aeval dogmas in that impartial
m ood to which theologians must attain before
theology becomes the Queen o f S ciences
A rchbishop Laurence was an industrious worke r
in the scientific laboratory o f theology when he
t ranslated the Bodleian manuscript o f the Book
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Enoch and thus u nconsciously placed in our
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hands the Ethiopic key to
the evolutio n o f
Christianity
It remains for future generations to
determine whether his labours o r those o f h i s
successor in the S emitic chair of O xford shall prove
more conducive t o the religious enlightenment o f
posterity
Pal ae ontologists who compare the organic fossil s
o f distinctive epochs in geologic time and d i s cover
in the more recent formations organisms partially
d ivergent in structure from pre existent form s
attribute variation n o t to creative miracle s but to
the continuous action o f natural cau s es fashioning
Specie s throughout the ages in harmony with the
natural law o f S urvival o f the Fittest
We al s o
having identifi e d the kindred fossils o f En o c h i a n
and Evangelical epochs inevitably infer that
m odified vers ion s o f pre existent ideas are traceable
not to miraculous but to natural sources conclu
sions which inaugurate the s cience o f theologic
pal aeontology and invite all learned travellers to
follow the example o f Bruce b y searching the
world fo r ancient manuscripts which m a y disclose
the merely human origin o f do g mas and m ysteries
now accepted a s Divine
A rchbishop Laurence when Professor o f Hebrew
in the Univer s ity o f O xford translated the Book
o f Enoch within the walls o f t h e Bo dl e i a n Library
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and when appealed to by the Rev I M Butt in
1 8 2 7 to publish the Ethiopic original answered
I cannot the manuscript not being my o w n b ut
belonging to the Univers ity o f O xfo rd
In his
preface t o the third edition o f h i s translation the
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A rchbishop adds If the Univer s ity o f O xford
would oblige the literary world by publi s hing the
original Ethiopic from the manu s cript in i t s pos
s e s sion I a m per s uaded that E t hiopic s cholars would
not be w anting to accomplish more than has been
hitherto done fo r this long regretted book after its
sleep o f ages
S ince the s e word s were written
great progress h as been made i n the stud y o f
comparative philolo g y ; and there are n o w doubtless
m any eminent li n gui s ts in England on the Conti
and in the United S tate s who could still
n ent
further illumine the pages o f the Book o f Enoch
through c c operative critici s m of the Ethiopic text
Is not the time therefore come for the University
manuscript in
o f O xford to publi s h the original
their po s ses s ion that learned Jews and Gentiles
may stu d y the inspired predictions o f a great
Hebrew prophet o r admire the s ublime imagery o f
the S emitic Milton who ascended to the heavens
to dramatize Divinity ?
A t the era o f the Renai s sance when enfranchised
thought turned from A ri s totle to Plato it is s aid
that Cardinal Bellarmine advised Pope Clement
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obvious ly meaning that it would be inexpedient fo r
the Church to favour a merely human system which
anticipated the Trinitarian theo s oph y of alleged
revelation : is it not possible that further delay in
pre s enting the world with the Ethiopic text of
Enoch may suggest to adver s e critic s that O xford
neglects the Hebrew patriarch for the same rea s on
that Rome slighted the Athenian philo s opher ?
Archbishop Laurence s tran s lation n o w however
place s the Book o f Enoch within the reach o f all
English rea ders Catholics may di s regard i t s con
tents as i t is not found in the sacred Canon of
their infallible Church ; but Protestants who adhere
to the principles o f the Reformation and whose
tenure o f Christianity is therefore c ontingent o n
the appeal t o reason mus t inevitably enroll Enoch
among the prophets o r reconsider the supernatural
in Chri s tianity
It is important for readers o f the Book o f Enoch
to recollect that we owe the Reformation to inde
pendent study o f sacred literature previous l y with
drawn from the people t h rough the oblivion o f dead
and untran s lated languages The long neglected
Book o f E noch n o w stand s in analogous relation ship
w ith modern seeker s after religious truth ; and i t
remains for its readers to ex e rci s e that right o f
ro a c h e d
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private judgment to which Protestantis m owes its
existence by impartially considering the inevitable
modifications o f faith involved in the discovery that
the language and ideas o f alleged revelation are
found in a pre existent work accepted b y Evange
lists and Apostles as inspired but classed by modern
theologians among apocryphal productions
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Enoch we have been still further impressed by its
relationship with New Testament S crip ture Thus
the parable o f the sheep rescued b y the good S hep
herd from hireling guardians and ferocious wolves
is obviously borrowed by the fourth Evangelist
from Enoch lxxxix in which the author depicts
the shepherd s as k illing and destroying the sheep
before the advent o f their Lord and thus disclose s
the true meaning o f that hitherto mysterious passage
in the J o h a n n i n e parable
All tha t ever came
before me are thieves a n d robbers
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which we now detect an obvious reference to the
a llegorical shepherds o f Enoc h ]
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Who will hereafter tread upon Mount S inai ;
appear with his hosts ; and be Lm a ni fe s t e d in the
strength of h i s power from heaven
5 Al l shall be afraid and the Watchers be
terrified
6 Great fear and trembling shall seize them
even t o the ends o f the earth The lofty moun
tains shall be troubled and the exalted hills de
pressed melting like a honeycomb in the flame
The earth shall be immerged and all things which
are in it perish ; while j udgment shall come upon
all even upon a l l the righteous
7 But to them shall he give peace : he shall
preserve the elect and towards them exercise cle
mency
8 Then shall all belong to God ; be happy and
blessed ; and the splendour o f the Godhead shall
illuminate them
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Behold he comes w ith ten thousands o f his
saints to execute j udgment upon them and destroy
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the wicked and reprove all the carnal for every
thing which the sinful and ungodly have done and
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committed against him
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All who are in the heavens know what is
1
transacted the re
2 They k n o w that the heavenly luminaries change
n o t their path s ; that each ri s es and sets regularly
every one at its proper period without tr a n s gre s s ing
the com m ands w hi ch the y ha ve re cei v e d They behold
the earth and understand what is there transacted
from the beginning t o the end o f it
3 They s e e that ever y work o f God is invariable
in t h e period o f its appearance They behold sum
mer and winter : p erce i v i ng that the whole earth is
full o f water ; and that the cloud the de w and the
rain refresh it
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They consider and behold every tree how it a p
pears t o wither and every leaf to fall o ff except o f
fourteen trees which are n o t d e ciduous ; which w ait
from the o l d to the appearance o f t he new l e af fo r
two or three winters
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Agai n they consider the days o f summer th a t
the sun is upon it at its very beginning while yo u
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seek for a covered and shady spot on account o f the
burning sun ; while the eart h is scorched up with
fervid heat and you become incapable o f walking
either upon the ground o r upon the rocks in c o n s e
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They consider how the trees when they put
forth their green leaves become cover e d and pro
d uce fruit ; understanding everything and knowing
that He who lives for ever does all these things for
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him and invariable ; yet as God has appointed s o
are all things brought to pass
3 The y s e e too how the seas and the rivers t o
gether complete their respec t ive operation s
4 But you endure not patiently nor fulfil the
commandments o f the Lord ; but you tran s gress
and calumniate hi s greatness ; and malignant are
the words in your polluted mouths against his
Maje s ty
5 Ye withered in heart no peace shall be to
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ti on sh all be multiplie d and y o u s h all not o bta in
mercy
7 In those days s h all y o u re s ign your peace
w ith the eternal maledictions o f all the r i ghteous
and sinners shall perpetuall y execrate y ou
8 S h a l l e xe cra te yo u with the ungodly
9 The elect shall posse s s light j o y and peace ;
and they shall inherit the earth
1 0 But you ye unholy s hall be accursed
1 1 Then shall wi s dom be given to the elect all
o f whom shall live
a n d not again transgr e ss by
impiety o r pride ; but shall humble themselves
possessing prudence and shall n o t repeat trans
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plied in those days that daughters were born to
them elegant and beautiful
2 And when the angels the sons o f heaven
beheld them they became enamoured o f them say
ing to each other Come let us select for ourselves
w ives from the progeny o f men and let us b e get
children
3 Then their leader S a m ya za said to them ; I
fear that you may perhaps be indisposed to the
perfo rmance o f this enterprise
4 And that I alone shall su ffer for s o grievous a
crime
5 But they answered him and said ; We all
s w ear ;
6 And bind ourselves by mutual execrations
that we will not change o ur intention but execute
o ur proj ected undertaking
7 Then they swore all together and all bound
themselves by mutual execrations Their whole
number was two hundred who descended upon
Ardis which is the top of mount Armon
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Armon
8 That mountain therefore was called
because they had s worn upon it and bound them
s elves by mutual execrations
9 These are the names o f their c h iefs S a m ya za
who was their leader U ra k a b a ra m e e l Ak i b e e l
Ta m i e l R a m ue l Danel Azk e e l S a ra k n ya l A sael
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Armers Ba t ra a l Anane Z av e b e Sa m sa v e e l Ert a e l
Turel Y o m y a e l Ara zya l These were t h e p re fe c t s
o f the two hundred angels and the remaind er were
all w 1 th them
1 0 Then they took wives each choosing for
himself ; whom they began to approach and w ith
whom they cohabited ; teaching them sorcery incan
t a t i o n s and the dividing o f roots and trees
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And the women conceiving brought forth
giants
1 2 Whose stature was each three hundred cubits
These devoured all w hi ch the labour o f men p ro
duce d until it became impossible to feed them
1 3 When they turned themselves against men in
order to devour them ;
1 4 A nd began t o injure birds beasts reptiles
and fishes to eat their flesh o n e after another and
t o drink their blood
1 5 Then the earth reproved the unrigh teous
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Moreover Aza zy e l taught men t o m ake swords
knives shields breastplates the fabricati on o f mir
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and the workman s hip of bracelets and orna
ments the us e of paint the beautifying of the eye
brows the use of stones o f every valuable and select
kind and o f all sorts o f dyes so that the world
became altered
2 I m piety increased fornication multip l ied ; and
they tran s gre s se d and corrupted all the ir wa y s
3 Am a za ra k taug ht all the sorcerers and dividers
o f roots
4 Armers ta ug h t the solution o f sorcery ;
5 Ba rk a y a l ta ug h t the observers o f the stars
6 Ak i b e e l ta ug h t signs ;
7 Ta m i e l taught astronomy ;
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s a ra de l taught the motion o f the moon
A 9 An d men being destroyed cried o ut ; and their
voice reached to heaven
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CHA P IX
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Then Mich ael and Gabriel Raph ael S urya]
and Uriel looked down from heaven and sa w the
quantity o f blood which was shed on earth and all
the iniquity which was done upon it and said o n e
t o another I t i s the voice of their cries
2 The earth deprived of her chi l dre n has cried
even to the gate of heaven
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And complain even to the gate o f heaven
1 2 Their groaning ascends ; n o r can they escape
from the unrighteousness which is committed o n
earth Thou knowest a l l thing s before t h e y e x i s t
1 3 Thou knowest these things and w h at has
been done b y them ; yet thou dost not s peak to us
1 4 What o n account of these things ought we to
do to them
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Then the Most High the Great and Holy O ne
spoke
2 A nd sent Arsa ya l a l yur to the so n o f Lamech
3 S aying S ay to him in my name Conceal
thyself
4 Then explain to him the con s ummation which
i s about to take place ; for all the earth shall perish
the waters o f a deluge shall come over the whole
earth and all things which are in it shall be de
stroyed
5 And now teach him how he may escape and
how his seed may remain in all the earth
6 Again the Lord said to Raphael Bind Azaz
y el hand and foot ; cas t him into darkness ; and
opening the desert which is in Duda e l cast him in
there
7 Thr ow upon him hurled and pointed stones
cover i ng him with darkne s s ;
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shall he remain fo r ever ; cover his face
t h at he may not s e e the light
9 A nd in the great day o f j udgment let him be
cast into the fire
1 0 Restore the earth which the angels have
corrupted ; and announce life to it that I may
revive it
1 1 All the sons o f men shall not perish in con
sequence o f every secret by w hich the Watchers
h ave destroyed and w hi ch they have taught their
o ffspring
1 2 A ll the earth has been corrupted by the e ffects
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o f the teaching
To
him
therefore
za z e l
of A
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ascribe the whole crime
1 3 To Gabriel also the Lord said Go to the
biters to the reprobates to the children o f fornica
tion ; and de s troy the children o f fornication the
o ffspring o f the Watchers from among men bring
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them forth and excite them o n e against another
Let them peri s h by m utua l slaught e r ; fo r length o f
days shall not be theirs
1 4 They s hall all entreat thee but their fathers
shall n o t obtain the i r w i she s respecting them ; for
they shall hope fo r eternal life and that they may
live each o f them five hundred years
1 5 To Michael likewise the Lord said Go and
announce hi s cri m e to Sa m y a za and to the others
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who are with him who have been associated with
women that they might be polluted with all their
impurity And when all their sons shall be slain
when they shall se e the perdition of their beloved
bind them for seventy generation s underneath the
earth even t o the day of j udgment and of c o n sum
mation until the j udgment the eyfe ct of which will
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last for ever be completed
1 6 Then s hall they be taken away into the lowest
depths o f the fire in torments and in confinement
shall they be shut up for ever
1 7 Immediatel y after this s hall b e together with
them burn and perish ; they shall be bound until
the con s ummation o f many generations
1 8 Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance
a n d the o f
fs pring o f t h e Watchers fo r they have
tyrannized over mank i nd
1 9 Let every oppressor perish from the face o f
the earth ;
2 0 Let every evil work be de s troyed ;
2 1 The plant o f righteousness and o f rectitude
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appear and its produce become a bles s ing
2 2 Righteousness and rectitude shall be for eve r
planted with delight
2 3 And then shall all the saint s give thanks and
live until they have begotten a thousand chi l dre n
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while the whole period o f their youth and their sab
baths shall be completed in peace In those da y s all
the earth s hall be cultivated in righteousn e ss ; it shall
be wholly planted with trees and filled with bene
diction ; every tree o f delight s hall be planted in it
24 I n it shall vines be planted ; and the vine
which shall be planted in i t shall yield fruit t o s a
tie ty
every seed which shall be sown in it shall
produce for o n e measure a thousand ; and o n e mea
sure o f olives shall produce ten presses o f o i l
2 5 Purify the earth from all oppre s s ion from all
inj ustice from all crime from all impiety and fro m
all the pollution which is committed upon it Ex
terminate them from the earth
2 6 Then s hall all the children o f men be right
e o us and all nation s shall pay me divine honours
and bless me ; and all s hall adore me
2 7 The earth shall be cleansed from all corrup
tion from every crime from all punishment and
from all su ffering neither will I again send a deluge
upon it from generation to generation for ever
2 8 In tho s e d a y s I will open t h e treasures o f
blessing which are in heaven that I may cau s e
them to de s cend upo n earth and upon all the works
and labour of man
2 9 Peace and equity shall associate with the son s
o f men all the days of the world in every generation
o f it
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Before all these things Enoch was concealed
nor did any o n e of the sons o f men kno w where he
was conceale d where he had been and what had
happened
2 He was wholly engaged with the holy ones
and with the Watchers in his day s
3 I Enoch was blessing the great Lord and
King o f peace
4 And behold the Watchers called me Enoch
the scribe
5 Then th e L o rd said to me : Enoch scribe o f
righteousnes s go tell the Watchers o f heaven who
have deserted the lofty sk y and their holy e v e rl a st
ing station w ho have been pol l uted with women
6 A nd have done as the sons o f men do by
taking to themselves wives and w ho have been
greatly corrupted o n the earth ;
7 That on the earth they shall never obtain peace
and remission of s i n For they shall not rej oice in
their offs pring ; they shall behold the slaughter o f
their beloved ; s hall lament fo r the destruction of
their sons ; and shall petition for ever ; but sha l l
not obtain mercy and peace
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C HAP XIII
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Then Enoch passing o n said to Aza z ye l Thou
s h alt not obtain peace A great sentence is gone
forth again s t thee He shall bind thee
2 Neither shall relief mercy and supplication
be thine on account o f the Oppression which tho u
ha s t taught
3 A nd o n account o f every act of blasphemy
tyrann y and s i n ; which thou hast di s covered to the
children o f men
4 Then departing fro m h i m I spoke to them all
together ;
5 A nd they all became terrified and trembled ;
6 Beseeching me t o write for them a memorial
o f supplication that they might obtain forgivene s s
and tha t I might make the memorial o f their pr a yer
ascend up before the God o f heaven ; because they
could n o t themselves thenceforwards address him
nor raise up their e y es to heaven o n account o f the
di s graceful offence for which they were judged
7 Then I wrote a memorial of their prayer and
supplication fo r their spirits for everything which
they had done and fo r the subj ect of their entreaty
that they might obtain remission and re s t
8 Proceeding on I continued over the waters o f
Da n b a da n which is on the right to the we s t o f
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Armon reading the memorial o f their prayer until
I fell asleep
9 And behold a dream came to me and visions
appeared above me I fell down and saw a vision
o f puni s hment that I might relate it to the s ons o f
heaven and reprove them When I awoke I went
to them A ll being collected together stood weep
ing in Oub e l s e y a e l which is situated between Liba
nos and S e n e se r with their faces veiled
1 0 I related in their presence all the visions
which I h a d seen and my dream ;
1 1 And began to utter these words o f righteous
ness reproving th e Watchers o f heaven
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CHAP XIV
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This is the book of the words o f righteousness
and o f the reproof o f the Watchers who belong to
the world according to that which He who i s holy
and great commanded in the vision I perceived
in my dream that I was now speaking with a tongue
o f flesh and with m
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has put into the mouth o f men that they m ight
converse with it
2 And understand with the heart
As he has
created and given to men the p o w e r of comprehend
ing the word o f understanding s o has he creat e d
and given t o me the p o w er of reproving the Watchers
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crystal
A vibrating fl a m e
surrounded it which
began to strike me with terror
1 1 Into this vibrating flame I entered ;
1 2 A nd dre w nigh t o a s pacio us habitation built
also with stones o f crystal I t s walls too as well
as pavement were fo rme d with stones o f crystal
and crystal likewise was the ground Its roof had
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the appearance o f agitated star s and fla s hes of
lightning ; and among them were cherubim of fire
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in a stormy sk y A flame burned around its wall s
and i t s portal blazed with fire When I enter ed
into this dwelling it was hot a s fire and cold a s ice
No tra ce o f delight o r of life was there
Terro r
overwhelmed me and a fearful shaking se i zed
me
1 3 Violently agitated and trembling I fell upon
my face In the vi s ion I looke d
1 4 And behold there was another habitation
more spacious than th e fo rm e r ever y entrance to
w hich w a s open before me erected in the m i ds t o
a
f
v ibrating flame
1 5 S o greatly did it excel in all point s in glor y
in magnificence and in magnitude that i t is i m p o s
s i ble to de s cr i be to you either the splendour or t h e
extent of it
1 6 Its floor was o n fire ; above were lightnings
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and agitated star s while its roof exhibited a blazing
fire
1 7 A ttentively I sur v eyed it and s a w that it
contained an exalted throne ;
1 8 The appearance of which was like that o f
fro s t ; while its circu m ference re sembled the o rb o f
the brilliant s un ; and th e re w a s the voice o f the
cherubim
1 9 From underneath this mighty throne rivers
o f flaming fire i s s ued
2 0 To look upon it was impossible
2 1 O ne great in glory s a t upon it
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ho s e robe w a s brighter than the sun and
whiter than snow
2 3 N0 angel was capable o f penetrating to vie w
the face of Hi m the Glorious and the Effulgent ;
nor could an y mortal behold Hi m
A fire w a s
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fl a m i n g around Him
2 4 A fire al s o of great extent continued to rise
up before Him ; so that not o n e o f tho s e who sur
round e d Him w a s c a pable o f approaching Him
a m o n g the m y riad s o f myriads who were before
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Him To Him holy con s ultation was needless
Yet did not the sanctifie d who w e re near Hi m
depar t far from Him either by night o r by day ;
nor were they removed from Him I al s o w a s so
far advanced with a v eil on my face and trembling
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ENOCH
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Then the Lord with his o w n mouth called me sa y
ing Approach hith er Enoch at my holy word
25 A nd He raised me up making me draw near
even to the entrance My eye was directed to the
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Then addressing me He Spoke and sai d
Hear neither be afraid O righteous Enoch thou
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scribe o f righteousness approach hither and hear
my voice Go sa y to the Watchers o f heaven who
have sent thee to pray for them You ought to
pray fo r men and not men for you
2 Wherefore have y o u forsaken t h e lofty and
h oly heaven which endures fo r ever and have lain
with women ; have de fil e d yourselves with t h e
daughters of men have taken t o yourselves wives ;
have acted like the sons o f the earth and have
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begotten an impious offs pring ?
3 You being spiritual holy and possessing a
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life which is eternal have polluted yourselves
with wo m en ; have begotten i n carnal blood ; h ave
lusted in the blood o f men ; and have done as those
w h o a re flesh and blood do
4 These however die and perish
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Therefore have I given to them wives that
they might cohabit with them ; that son s might be
born o f them ; and that this might be transacted
upon earth
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But you from the beginning were made
Spiritual pos s essing a life which is eternal and
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n o t subject to death for ever
7 Therefore I made not wives for yo u because
being s piritual your dwelling is in heaven
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Now the giants who have been born o f spirit
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and o f flesh shall be called upon earth evil s pirits
and o n earth shall be their habitation Evil spirits
because they ere
s hall proceed from their flesh
created from above ; from the holy Watchers was
their begin nin g and primary foundation E v il
Spirits Shall they be upon earth and the spiri t s o f
the wicked s hall they be called The habitation o f
the Spirits o f heaven Shall be in heaven ; but upon
earth Shall be the habitation o f terr e strial spirits
w h o are born o n earth
9 The spirits o f the giant s s ha l l be l i k e clouds
which Shall oppress corrupt fall contend and bruise
upon earth
No food shall
1 0 They Shall cause lamentation
they e a t ; and they shall be thirst y ; they shall be
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concealed and shall not rise up against the sons
o f men
and against women ; for they come forth
during the days o f slaughter and destruction
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And as to the death o f the giant s where s oever
their Spirit s depart from their bodi e s let their flesh
that which i s peris h able be without j udg m ent
Thu s Shall they peri s h until the day o f the great
consummation o f the great world A de s truction
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shall take place o f the Watcher s and the impious
2 A nd now to the Watcher s who have s ent thee
to pray for them who in the beginning were in
heaven
3 S a y In heaven have you been ; se cret thing s
however have n o t been manife s ted to yo u ; yet
have you known a reprobated m y s tery
4 A nd this you have related to women in the
hardness o f your heart and by that my s tery have
w omen and mankind
multiplied evils upon the
earth
5 S ay to them Never therefore Shall you obtain
peace
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when they pleased they assumed the likeness of
C HAP
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They carried me to a lofty spot to a mountain
the top o f which reached t o heaven
3 A nd I beheld the receptacle s o f light and o f
thunder at the extremities of the place where it
was deepest There was a b o w o f fire and arrow s
in their quiver a sword o f fire and every species of
lightning
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4 Then they elevated me to a babbling s t ream
a n d to a fire in the west
which rec e ived all the
s e tting o f the sun I came to a river o f fire whic h
flowed like water and emptied it s elf into the great
sea we s twar d s
5 I s a w every large river until I arrived at the
great darkne s s I went to where all o f flesh mi
grate ; and I beh e ld the mo untain s o f the gloom
w hich con s titute s winter and the place from which
i ss ues the water in every abyss
6 I s a w al s o th e mouths o f all the rivers in the
world and the mouth s o f t h e deep
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I then surveyed the receptacles o f all the
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w inds perceiving that they contributed to adorn
the whole creation and to p rese rv e the foundation
o f the earth
2 I surveyed the stone w hi ch s upp orts the corners
o f the earth
3 I also behe l d the four winds which bear up
the earth and the firm a m e nt o f heaven
4 And I beheld t h e winds occupying the exalted
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and constituting the pillars o f heaven
6 I saw the winds which turn the Sky which
cause the o rb o f the s un and o f all the stars to s e t ;
and over the earth I s a w the winds which support
the clouds
7 I saw the path o f the angels
8 I perceived at the extr e mity of the earth the
Then I passed on
firm a m e n t o f heaven above it
toward s the south ;
9 Where burnt both by day and night s i x
m ountains formed o f glorious stones ; three toward s
the east and three towards the south
1 0 Those which were towards the east were o f a
variegated stone ; o n e o f which was o f m argarite
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Then Uriel said Here the angel s who c c
habited with women appointed their leaders ;
2 A nd being numerou s in appearance made men
profane and caused them to err ; s o that they sacri
fic e d to d evil s as to gods
Fo r in the great day
th e re s h a l l b e a j ud gment with which the y Shall be
j udged until they are consumed ; a n d their wives
al s o s hall be j udg e d who led a s tray the angel s o f
heaven th at they might salute them
3 A nd I Enoch I alone s a w the likene s s of the
end o f all things Nor did any human being see it
as I s a w it
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These are the n ames o f the angels who watc h
2 Uriel o n e o f the holy angels who p re si des
1
over clamour and terror
3 Raphael o n e o f the holy angels who p re s i de s
o ver the s p i rits o f men
4 Rag uel o n e o f the hol y angels who in fl ict s
puni s hment o n the wo rld and t h e l umi pg g i e s
5 Michael o n e o f t h e h o l y angel s who p re si di ng
over human virtue c o m mands t h e nations
6 S a ra k i e l o n e o f the h ol y angels who p re si de s
over the spirits o f the children of men that trans
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Gabriel one o f the holy angel s w h o p re si des
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Then I made a circuit to a place in which
nothing w a s completed
2 And there I beheld nei t her the tremendous
workman s hip of an exalted heaven nor o f an
e s tablished earth but a desolate spot prepared and
t e rrific
3 There too I beheld seven s tars o f heaven
bound m i t together like great mountain s and like
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a blazing fire I exclai m ed For what Species o f
crime have they bee n bound and why have they
b e en removed to thi s place ? Then Uri e l o ne of
the hol y angels who was with me and who con
ducted me answered : Enoch wherefor e dost thou
a sk ; wherefore reason with thy s elf and anxiou s ly
inquire ? The s e are tho s e o f the stars which have
tran s gressed the co m m andment o f the most high
God ; and are here bo und un t il the infinite number
o f the days o f t he i r crimes be compl e ted
4 From thence I afterwards passed o n to another
t errific place ;
5 Where I beh e ld the operation o f a great fire
blazing and g l i tt e rm g i n the mid st of which there
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was a division Columns o f fire struggled together
to the end o f the aby s s and deep was their descent
But neither its measurement n o r magnitude was I
able to discover ; neither could I perceive its origin
Then I exclaimed How terri b le i s this place and
how di fficult to explore
6 Uriel o n e o f the holy angels who was with m e
answered and said : Enoch why art thou alarmed
and amazed at this terrific place at the Sight o f thi s
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From thence I proceeded to another spot
where I s a w o n the we s t a great and lofty mountain
a strong rock and four delightful places
2 Internally it was deep capacious and very
s m ooth ; as smooth as if it had b een rolled over : it
was both deep and dark to behold
3 Then Raphael o n e of the holy angels who were
with me answered and said These are the delight
ful places where the spirits the souls o f the dead
will be collected ; for them were they formed ; and
here w ill be collected all the souls o f the sons o f
men
4 These places in which they dwell shall they
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occupy until the day o f judgment and until their
appointed period
5 Their appointed period will be long even u ntil
the great j udgment And I saw the Spirit s of the
sons o f men who were dead ; and their voices
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reached to heaven while they were accusing
6 Then I inquired o f Raphael an angel who was
with me and said Whose Spirit i s that the voice
o f which reaches to h ea v e n and accuses
saying This is the Spirit of
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Abel who was s lain by Ca i n his brother ; and who
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will accu s e that brother until his seed be destro y ed
fro m the face o f the earth
8 Until his seed perish from the seed o f the
human race
9 A t that time therefore I inquired respecting
him and respecting the general j udgment s aying
Why is o n e separated from another ? He answered
Three sep a ra ti o ns have been made between the
spirits o f the dead and thus have the spirits o f the
righteou s been separated
1 0 Namely by a chas m by water and by l ight
above it
1 1 And in the same way likewise are sinners
separated when they die and are buried in the
earth ; j udg m ent not overtaki ng them in their life
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Here their so uls are sep a rated Moreover
abundant i s their su ffering until t h e time of the
great judg m ent the castigation and the torment
o f those who
eternally execrate whose souls are
puni s hed and bound there for ever
1 3 And thu s has it been from the beginning of
Thus has there existed a separation
t h e world
between the soul s o f tho s e who utter complaint s
and o f tho s e who watch for their destruction to
slaughter them in the day o f sinners
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1 4 A rec e ptacle of this sort has been for m ed
for the s ouls o f unrighteou s men and of s inner s ; o f
those who have completed crime and a s s ociated
wi t h the impious whom they resemble Their s oul s
s hall n o t be annihilated in the day of ju dgment
neither Shall they arise from this place Then I
blessed God
1 5 A nd said Blessed be my Lord the Lord of
glory a n d o f righteousne s s who reigns over all for
ever and for ever
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From thence I went to another place towards
the we s t unto the extremities of the earth
2 Where I beheld a fire blazing and running
along witho ut cessation which int e rmitted i t s course
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neither by day n o r by night ; but continued alwa y s
the s ame
3 I inquired saying What is thi s which never
cea s e s
4 Then Raguel o n e of the holy angels who were
w ith me an s wered
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This blazing fire which thou b e
holdest r unning to w ards the west is tha t of all the
luminaries o f heaven
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I went from thence to a n other place and s a w
a mountain of fire fla s hin g both b y day and night
I proceeded toward s it ; and perc e ived seven splen
did mountain s which were all di fferent from each
other
2 Their stones were brilliant and beautiful ; all
were br i lliant and s plendid to behold ; and beautiful
Three m o un ta i ns were towards
w a s their s urface
the east and strengthened by being p l aced o n e
upon another ; and t hree were toward s the south
There were like
s tre n gthened in a similar manner
wise deep valleys which did not approach each
other A nd the seventh mountain was in the mid s t
In le n gth they all resembled the s eat o f
o f them
a throne and odoriferous trees surrounded the m
3 A mong these there was a tree o f an unceasing
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smell ; nor of those which were in Eden was th ere
o n e o f all the fragrant trees which smelt like this
Its leaf its flower and its bark never withered and
its fruit w a s beautiful
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4 Its fruit re s embled the cluster o f the palm
excl aimed Behold this tree is goodly in aspect
pleasing in i t s leaf and the sight o f its fruit is d e
lightful to the eye Then Michae l o n e of the holy
and glorious angel s who were with me and o n e who
presided over them a nswered
5 An d said : Enoch why dost thou inquire re
specting the odour o f thi s tree ?
hy art thou inquisitive to know it ?
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7 Th e u I Enoch replied to him and said Con
c erning every thing I am de s irous of instruction
but particularly concerning thi s tree
8 He answered me s aying That mountain which
thou beholdest the extent o f whose head re s embles
the seat of the Lord w ill be the seat o n which shall
s i t the holy and great Lord o f glory the everla s ting
King when he s hall come and descend to visit the
earth with goodness
9 And that tree o f an agreeable smell not o n e of
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carnal o do ur there s hall be no power to touch until
the period o f the great judgment When all shall
be punished and consumed for ever this shall be
bestowed on the righteous and humble The fruit
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dry valleys towards the extremity o f the th ree
All thes e valleys which were deep but not wide
consisted o f a s trong rock with a tree which was
planted i n them And I wondered at the rock and
at the valleys being extremely surprised
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Then I said What means this blessed lan d
all these lofty trees and the accursed valley between
them
2 Then Uriel o n e o f the holy angels who were
with me replied This valley is the accursed o f the
accursed fo r ever Here shall be collected all who
utter with their mouths unbecoming language
against God and speak harsh things of His glory
Here shall they be collected Here shall be their
territory
3 In the latter days an example o f j udgment
shall be made o f the m in righteou s ne s s before the
s aints : while those who have received mercy Shall
for ever all their days bless Go d the everlasting
King
4 And at the perio d o f j udgment shall they
bles s Him fo r his merc y as He has distributed it
to them Then I blessed God addre s sing myself
to Him and makin g mention as was meet o f His
greatness
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From thence I proceeded to w ards the east to
the middle of the mountain in the de s ert the level
s urface only o f which I percei v ed
2 It was full of trees of the s eed alluded to ; and
water leaped do w n upon it
3 There appeared a cataract composed a s o f
many cataract s both to w ards the we s t and toward s
the east Upon o n e side were trees ; upon the other
water and dew
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Then I went to another place from the de s ert
toward s the ea s t o f that mountain w h i ch I had
approached
2 There I beheld choice trees particularl y th os e
frankin
w hi ch p ro duce the s w eet smelling drug s
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3 A nd over it above them was the elevation o f
the eastern mo un tain at n o great distance
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I l ikewise sa w another place with valleys
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smell re s e m bled Z a s a k i n o n
3 And toward s the side s o f these valle y s I per
c e i v e d cinnamon o f a sweet odour
O ve r them I
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Then I beheld another mountain containi n g
tree s from which water flowed like Ne k e t ro I t s
name was S arira and Ka l b o n e b a A nd u pon thi s
moun tain I b e held another mountain upon which
were trees of Alva
2 These trees were full like almond trees and
and when they produced fruit it w a s
s trong ;
s uperior to all perfume
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Afte r these things s urve y ing the entrances of
the north above the mountains I perceived seven
mountain s replete with pure nard odoriferous trees
cinnamon and papyru s
2 From thence I passed o n above the summit s
o f tho s e mountains to s ome di s tance eastward s and
went over the Er y thr aean s e a
And when I w a s
adva nced far beyond it I pa s sed along above the
angel Z a t e e l and arrived at the garden o f righteous
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ness In this garden I beheld among other tree s
and which
s o m e which were numerous and large
flouri s hed there
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3 Their fragrance w a s agreeable a n d powerful
and their appearance b oth varied and elegant The
tree o f knowledge also was there o f which i f any
o n e eat s he becomes endowed w ith great wi s dom
4 It w a s like a s pecie s of the t amarind tree
bearing fruit which re s embled grape s extremel y
fin e ; a n d its fr a grance e xtended to a considerable
di s tance I exclai m ed How beautiful i s thi s tree
and how delightful i s i t s appearance
5 Then holy Raphael an angel who was with
me answered and said This i s the tre e o f know
ledge o f which thy ancient father and thy aged
mother ate who were before thee a n d who obtai n
i n g knowledge their e y e s being opened and knowing
themselves to be naked were expelled from the
garden
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From thence I went o n towards the extremitie s
where I s a w large beast s di fferent
o f the earth ;
from each other and bird s various in their c o un t e
nances and forms as well as with notes o f different
sounds
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extremities o f the earth where heaven ceased
The gates o f heaven stood open and I beheld the
cele s t ial stars come forth I numbered them a s
they proceeded out of the ga t e and wrote them all
down as they came out one by one according to
their number I w ro te do w n the i r names altogether
their time s and their sea s ons as the angel Uriel
who was with me pointed them o ut to m e
3 He showed them all to me and wrote down a n
a cco un t of them
4 He also wrote down for me their n ames their
regulations and their Operations
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From thence I advanced o n towards the north
to t h e extremitie s Of the e a rth
2 A nd there I s a w a great and glorious wonder
at t h e extremities Of the whole e a rth
3 I s a w there heavenly gates Openi n g into
h aven ; three Of th e m di s tinctly s eparated The
n orthern winds proceeded from them blowing col d
hail frost s now dew and rain
4 From one Of the gate s t h e y b l e w mildly ; but
when they blew from the two o the r g a tes it w a s
with v iolence and force They blew over the earth
strongly
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From thence I went to the extremities Of the
world we s twards ;
2 Where I perceived three gates Open as I ha d
s een in the n orth ; the gates and pa s sages through
them bei n g Of equal magnitude
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Then I proceeded to the extremities Of the
earth s outhward s ; where I s a w three gates Open to
the south fro m which is s ued dew rain and wind
2 From thence I went to the ext re m ities o f
heaven eastwar d s ; where I s a w thre e heaven ly
gates open to the east which had smaller gate s
within them T h ro ugh each o f these small gate s
the stars O f heaven pa s s ed o n and proceeded to
ward s the west by a path which was s een by them
and that at every p e riod of the i r app e a ra nce
3 When I b e held the m I ble s sed ; every time i n
w hi ch th e y app e a re d I ble s s ed the Lord Of glor y
who had made those great and s plendid s igns tha t
they might di s play t h e magnificence Of his work s
to angels and to the s oul s of men ; and that the s e
m ight glorify all h i s works and operation s ; migh t
fect Of h i s power ; might glorify t h e great
s e e the e f
labour of h i s h ands ; and ble ss him for eve r
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The vision which he s a w the second vision Of
wisdom which Enoch s a w the s o n Of Jared the son
the s o n Of Oa n a n the son o f Eno s the
Of
al al e e l
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s o n o f S eth
m e n c e m e n t Of the word Of wisdom which I received
to declare and tell to tho s e who dwell upon earth
Hear from the beginni n g and understand to the
e n d the holy thing s which I utter in the pre s ence
Those who were before us
o f the Lord O f spirit s
thought it good to s peak ;
2 And let n o t us who come after obstruct th e
beginning Of wisdom Until the present period
never has t here been given before the Lord Of Spirits
that w hich I have receive d wisdom according to
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the capacity of my intellect and accor d ing to the
pleasure Of the Lord Of s pirits ; that which I have
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received from him a portion Of life eternal
3 And I Obtained three parables which I declared
to the inhabitants of the world
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be destroyed ; but be de l ivered into the hands Of
the righteous and the holy
6 No r thenceforwards Shall any Obtain com
miseration fro m the Lord Of Spirits becau s e their
lives i n thi s w o rl d will have been completed
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In those d ay s s hall the elect and holy race
d e s cend from the upper he a vens and their s eed
s hall then be with the sons Of m e n
Enoch received
book s Of indignation and wrath and books Of hurry
and agitation
2 Never shall they Obtain mercy saith the Lord
Of spirits
3 A cloud then s natched me up and the wind
raised me above the surface Of the earth placing
m e at the extremity of the heaven s
4 There I s a w another vi s ion ; I s a w the habita
tions and couch es O f the saints There my eye s
beheld their habitations with the angels and their
co uches with the holy ones The y were entreating
s upplicating
and praying for t h e son s Of men ;
while righteou s ness like water flowed before them
and mercy like dew w a s sca tte re d over the earth
And thu s sh a l l i t b e with them for ever and for ev e r
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the elect Of truth faith and righteousness
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Countless s hall be the number o f the holy
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and the e l ect in the presence Of God for ever and
for ev e r
7 Their re s idence I beheld under the wings Of
the Lord o f s pirit s A ll the hol y and t h e elect
s u n g before h i m
in a ppearance like a blaze Of fire
their mouth s being full Of ble s s ing s and their lip s
glorifying the name Of the Lord Of Spirit s And
righteousnes s ince s s antly dw e l t before him
8 There was I desirou s of re m aining and my
s oul longed
for t h at habitation Th e re was my
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antecedent inheritance ; for thus had I prevailed
before the Lord o f s pirits
9 A t that time I glorified and extolled the name
Of the Lord Of s pirit s with ble ss ing and with prai s e ;
for he h a s establi s hed it with ble s s ing and with
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praise according to h i s o w n good plea sure
1 0 That plac e lo n g did my e y e s cont e mplate
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ble s s ed and said Ble s sed be he ble ss ed from t h e
beginning for ever In the beginning before t h e
world was created and without end is h i s know
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d ust,
but stand before thy glory blessing glorifying
exalting thee a n d s aying The holy holy Lord Of
spirits fills the whole world Of s pirits
1 2 There m y eyes beheld all who without
Sleeping s tand before h i m a n d bless him saying
Ble s se d be thou and bles s ed be the name Of God
for ever and for ever Then my countenance b e
came changed until I was incapable Of seeing
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After this I beheld thousand s Of thousand s
and myriads of myriad s and an infinite n u
mber o f
people standing before the Lord of s piri t s
2 O n the four wings like w i s e Of the Lord Of
spirit s on the four sides I perceived o t hers besides
t hose w h o were standing b efo re h i m
Their name s
too I know ; because the angel who proceeded w ith
m e declared them to me discovering to me every
s ecret thing
3 Then I heard th e voices Of those upon the four
sides magnify ing the Lord Of glory
4 The fir s t voice blessed the Lord o f spirits fo r
ever and fo r ever
5 The second voice I heard blessing the elect
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O ne and the elect who su ffer o n account Of the
Lords Of spirits
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The third voice I heard petitionin g and pray
i n g for tho s e who d w ell upon earth and s upplicate
the name Of the Lord Of s pirits
7 The fourth voice I heard expelling the impiou s
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angel s and prohi b iting them from entering in t o
pre s ence Of the Lord o f s pirit s t o prefer accusation s
again s t the inhabitants Of the earth
8 After this I be s ought the angel Of peace who
proceeded with me to explain all that w a s con
ce al e d
I said to him Who are those w ho m I
have seen o n the four s ides and whose word s I have
heard and written down ? He repli e d The fir s t i s
the m erciful the patient the holy Michael
9 The s econd 1 S h e w h o p re s i de s over every
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fering and every a ffl i c t i o n Of the s ons Of m e n
the hol y Raphael The third who p re si de s ov e r all
that is powerful i s Gabriel And the fourt h who
res i de s over repentance and the hope Of tho s e who
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These are the
w ill inherit eternal life i s Phanuel
four angel s Of the most high Go d and their four
voices w hich at that time I heard
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After this I beheld the s ecret s Of t h e heavens
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and Of paradi s e accordi n g to i t s divi s ion s ; and Of
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human action a s they weigh it there in balance s
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I s a w the habitations Of the elect and the habita
tio n s Of the holy A nd there my eye s beheld all
the sinner s who denied the Lord Of glor y and
whom they were expelling fro m thence and drag
ging away as they s tood there ; no puni s h m ent
proceeding against them from the Lord Of s pirit s
2 There too my eye s beheld the secret s of the
lightning and the thunder ; and the s ecr e ts Of the
wind s how they are di s t ributed as they blo w over
the eart h the s ecret s Of the wind s of the de w and
Of the clouds There I perceived the place from
which they is s u e d forth and became saturated with
the du s t Of the earth
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3 There I s a w the wooden
receptacles o ut of
whi ch the winds became separated the receptacle
Of hail the receptacle Of s no w the receptacl e o f the
cloud s and t h e c l o ud itself w hi ch continued over
the earth before th e cre a ti o n of the world
4 I beheld also the receptacles o f the moon
2
whence the moons came whit her they proceede d
their gloriou s return and h o w o n e became more
another I m a rk e d their r ich pro
s plen did than
gress their unchangeable progress their disunited
and undiminished progress ; their Ob s ervance Of a
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mutual fidelity by a stable oath ; their proceeding
forth before the s un and their adherence to the
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path a l l o tte d them in Obedience to the command
Potent is h i s name for ever
o f the Lord Of s pirits
and for ever
5 A fter this I p e rce i v e d th a t the path both c o n
moon as well as the
c e a l e d and manife s t Of the
progre s s Of i t s path was there completed by day and
by nigh t ; while each one with another looked
to w ard s the Lord O f spirit s magnify ing and prai s ing
without ce s s ation s ince praise to the m i s re s t ; for
in the s plendid s un ther e i s a frequent conversion
to ble s sing and t o malediction
6 The cour s e Of the moon s path to the righteou s
i s light but to s inners it is darkness ; in the name
of the Lord Of Spirits who created a di v i s i o n b e
t w een light and darkne s s and separating the s pirit s
of men s trengthened the spirit s Of the righteou s in
t h e na m e of his own righteou s nes s
7 No r doe s the angel pr e vent th i s neither is h e
endowed with the power Of pre v enting it ; for the
Judge beholds the m all and j udges the m all in
his o w n pre s ence
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Wisdom found not a place o n e a rth where sh e
could inhabit ; her d w elling therefore i s i n heav en
isdom went forth t o dwell among the sons Of
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but S h e Obt a ined not an habitation Wisdom
returned to her place and seated h e r s elf in the
m idst o f the angels
B ut iniquity went forth after
her return who unwillingl y found a n h a bi ta ti o n and
r e sid e d among them as rai n in the desert and as a
dew in a thirsty land
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CHAP XLIII
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I beheld another splendour and the stars o f
I Ob s erved that he called the m all by
h eaven
their respective names and that they heard In a
righteous balance I sa w that he weighed o ut with
their light the amplitude Of their places and the
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and their conversion
da y Of their appearance
S plendour produced s plendour ; and their conver
s i on w a s into the number of the angels and Of the
faithful
2 Then I inquired o f the angel who proceeded
with me and explained to me secret th ing s What
He a n s wered A similitude o f
the i r n a m es were
those h a s the Lord Of s pirits s hown thee The y are
n ame s o f the righteo us who dwell upon ear t h and
w h o believe in the name Of the Lord Of spirits for
ever and for ever
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will also change th e fa ce of the earth ; will
bless it ; and cause those whom I have elected to
dwell upon it But tho s e who have committed S i n
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a n d iniquity shall not inhabit i t
for I have marked
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their proceedings My righteous ones will I sati s fy
with peace placing them before me ; but the con
d e m n a t i o n o f Sinner s Shall dra w near that I may
d estroy them from the face Of the earth
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There I beh eld the Ancient O f d ay s whose
head was like white wool and with him another
whose countenance resembled that Of man Hi s
countenance was full o f grace like tha t of o n e o f
the holy angels Then I i nquired Of one Of the
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angel s who went with me and who s howed m e
every secret thing concerning thi s S on of man ; who
he was ; whence he was ; and w h y he accompanied
the A ncient Of"days
2 He answered and said to me This is the S on
Of man to whom righteou s nes s belongs ; with whom
righteousness has dwelt and who will reveal all the
trea s ure s Of that which is concealed : for the Lord
Of spirits has chosen him ; and his p ortion has
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surpassed all before the Lord o f spirits in ever
la s ting uprightne s s
3 This S on Of man whom thou beholdest s hall
rai s e up king s and the might y from their couches
and the power ful from their thrones ; shall loosen
the bridle s Of the powerful and break in pieces the
teeth Of Sinners
4 He Shall hurl kings from their thrones and
their dominion s ; because the y will not exalt and
prai s e him n o r h umble them s elves b efo re hi m by
2
whom their kingdom s were granted to t he m The
countenance likewi s e Of the mighty s hall He ca s t
Darknes s Shall
d own filling them with confusion
be their habitation and worm s Shal l be their bed ;
nor from tha t their bed s hal l they hope to be again
raised becau s e they exalted no t the name Of the
Lord Of S pirits
5 They s hall co n demn the stars Of heave n s hall
lift up their hands a gain s t the Mo s t High shall
tread upon and inhabit the earth exhibiting all
their work s Of iniquity even their works Of iniquity
Their strength s ha l l be in th e ir rich e s and their
faith in the god s whom they h ave formed with
their o w n hands They shall deny the name Of
t h e Lord Of s pirit s and Shall expel him from the
temple s in which the y a s semble ;
6 A nd w i th hi m the faithfu l who s u ffer in the
name Of the Lord o f Spirits
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CHA P XLVI I
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In that d a y the pra y er Of the holy and the
righteous and the blood Of the righteou s shall
ascend from the earth into the presence Of the Lord
o f spirits
2 In that day Shall the holy ones assemble who
dwell above the heavens and with united voice
petition supplicate praise laud and ble ss the name
O f the Lord Of s pirits o n account Of the blood o f
the righteous which has been shed ; that the
prayer Of t h e righteous may not be intermitted
before the Lord Of spirits ; that for them he would
execute j udgment ; and that his patience may not
endure for ever
3 A t that time I beheld the Ancient Of days
w hile he sat upon the throne o f his glory w hi l e th e
book o f the living was Opened in his pre s ence and
w hi l e all the powers which were above the heaven s
stood around and before him
4 Then were the hearts o f the saints full Of j oy
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because the consummation o f righteousne s s w a s
arrived the supplication Of the saints heard and the
blood Of the righteous appreciated by the Lord Of
spiri ts
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thi s world Of iniquity and have deteste d all i t s
work s and way s i n the name Of the Lord O f Spirit s
7 For in h i s name s h all they be pre s e rved ; and
his will shall be their li fe In tho s e days s hall t h e
kings Of the earth and the might y men who have
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gained the world by their achievements become
humble in counten ance
8 For in the day Of their anxiet y and trouble
their souls Shall not be saved ; and the y sha l l b e in
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subjection to those whom I have cho s e n
9 I wi l l cast them like hay into the fire and
like lead into the water Thu s Shal l they burn
in the presence Of the righteou s and Sink in the
presence Of the holy ; nor Shall a tenth part Of them
be found
1 0 But in the day Of their trouble the world
3
shall Obtai n tranquillity
1 1 In his presence shall they fall and not be
raised up again ; nor s hall there be any One to take
them o ut of his hand s and to lift them up : for
they h ave denied the Lord Of spirit s and his
Me s siah The name Of the Lord Of Spirits Shall be
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CH A P XL V III
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Wisdom is poured forth like water and g l ory
fail s n o t before him for ev e r and ever ; for potent
is he in a l l the secr e ts of righteou s nes s
2 But iniquit y pa s ses away like a Shadow and
po ss e s s e s not a fixed s tation : fo r the Ele ct O ne
s tand s before the Lord Of s pirit s ; and h i s glor y i s
fo r ever and ever ; and h i s power from generation
to genera t ion
3 With him dwells the spirit Of intellectual
w i s dom the s pirit Of instruction and of power and
the Spiri t o f tho s e who sleep in righteou s ness ; he
shall j udge s ecret things
4 No r s hall a n y be able to utter a single w ord
before him ; fo r the Elect O ne i s in the presence
Lord o f spirit s according to his o w n
o f the
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In those days the saints and the chosen Shall
un dergo a change The light Of da y shall r e s t
upon them ; and the s plendour and glory Of the
saint s Shall be changed
2 In the da y Of trouble ev i l shall be heaped up
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upon sinners but the righteous shall triumph in t h e
name Of the Lord Of Spirits
3 O thers shall be made t o see t h at they must
repent and forsake the works Of their hands ; and
that glory awaits them not in the presence o f the
Lord o f spirit s y e t that by his name the y m a y be
saved The Lord Of Spirits will have compas s ion
o n them : for great i s his merc y
and righteou s ness
i s in h i s j udgment and in the presence Of h i s glory
nor in h i s judgment Shall iniquity stand He who
repents not before him Shall peri sh
4 Henceforward I will not have mercy o n t h e m
sai t h the Lord o f spirits
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In those da y s shall the earth deliver up from
her womb and hell deliver up fro m hers that which
it has received ; and de s truction shall restore that
w hich it owe s
2 He shall select the righteous and holy from
among them ; for the day Of their salvation has
approached
3 A nd in those days shall the Elect O ne s i t upon
his throne while every s ecret Of inte llectual wi s dom
shall proceed from his mouth ; for the Lord o f
Spirits has gifted a n d glorified h i m
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Wait but a Sh ort time and thou sh alt understan d
and every secret thing Shall be revealed to t hee
w hich the Lord Of spi rits has decreed
Those moun
tains which thou hast seen the mountain o f iro n
the mountain Of copper the m ountain of s ilver t h e
mountain Of gol d the mountain Of fluid metal and
the mountain Of lead all the s e in the pre s ence Of
the Elect O ne shall be like a honeycomb before the
fire and like water de s cending fro m above upon
the s e mountains ; and shall become debilitated before
his feet
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6 In tho s e days men shall not be saved by
gold and by Silver
7 No r shall they have it in their po w er to secure
themselve s and to fly
8 There shall be neither iron for war nor a coat
o f mail fo r the breast
9 Copper s h all be useless ; useless also that
w hich neither rusts n o r consumes away ; and lead
s hall not be coveted
1 0 All these things Shall be rej ected and peri s h
from Off the earth when the Elect O ne shall appear
in the presence Of the Lord Of spirits
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There m y eyes beheld a deep valley and wide
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dwell o n land o n the se a and in
island s shall bring to it gift s present s and o ffering s ;
yet that deep valle y s hall not be full Their hands
s hall commi t
iniquity What s oever they produce
by labour the s inners s hall devour with crime But
they Shall perish from the face of t h e Lord of Spirit s
and from the face of his earth They s hall s tand
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s hall n o t fail for ever and ever
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3 I beheld the angels Of punishment who were
dw e lling the re a n d preparing every instrument Of
S atan
4 Then I inquired Of the angel Of peace who
proceeded with me for whom those instruments
were preparing
5 He s ai d Th e s e they are pr e pari n g for the
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king s and powerful ones Of the earth that thu s
they may peri s h
6 After which the righteous and chosen house Of
his congregation s hall appear thenceforward un
chan geable i n the name Of the Lord Of spirits
7 Nor s hall those mountains exi s t in his presence
a s the earth and the hills as the fountains O f wat e r
e xi st
A nd the righteous shall be reli e ved from the
vexation Of s inners
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C HAP
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Then I look ed and turned m yself to anoth er
part Of the earth where I beheld a deep val ley
burning with fire
2 To this valley they brought monarchs and the
mighty
3 A nd there my eyes b eheld the instruments
which they were making fetters o f iron without
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4 Then I inquired o f the angel Of p e ace who
proceeded with me saying For whom are the s e
fetters and in s truments prepared
5 He rep l ied These a re prepared for t h e host
Of Az a ze e l that they ma y be de l ivered over and a d
j udged to the lowest condemnation ; and that their
a ngel s m a
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t h e Lord Of spirit s h a s commanded
6 Michael a nd Gabriel Raphael and P h a n ue l
shall be strengthened in that d a y and s hall then
ca s t t hem into a furnace Of blazing fire that the
Lord Of s pirits ma y be ave n ged Of the m for thei r
crime s ; becau s e the y beca m e mini s ters Of S ata n
and seduced those who dwell upon earth
7 In those d a y s Shall puni s h m ent go forth from
the Lord Of s pirit s ; and the receptacles Of water
w hich are above the heavens s h all be Opened and
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for e v er as long as the days Of h eaven and earth
last upon the earth
4 A fter w ards according to this my decree when
I s hall be di s po s ed to seize them beforehand by
the instrumentality Of angel s in the day Of a ffl i c t i o n
and trouble my wrath and m y puni s hment s hall
remain upon the m my puni s hment and my wrath
saith God the Lord o f s pirit s
5 O ye kings O ye mighty who inhabit the
world y o u s h all behold my Elect O ne s itting upon
the throne Of my glory A nd he shal l j u d ge A za
all h i s a s s ociates and all his host s in the nam e
ze e l
Of the Lord Of Spirit s
6 There likewi s e I beheld host s of angel s w h o
were moving in puni s hment confined in a net work
o f iron and bra s s
Then I inquired Of the angel Of
peace who proceeded with me TO who m those
under confinement were going
7 He s aid To each Of their elect and their
beloved that they may be cast into the fountains
and dee p rece s ses Of the valley
8 A nd that valley Shall be filled with their
el e ct and beloved ; the days Of whose life s hall be
con s umed but the day s Of t heir erro r shall be
innumerable
9 Then shall princes combine tog ether a n d
conspire The chie fs Of the ea s t among the Par
t h i a n s and Medes s hall remove kings in whom a
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Spirit Of perturbation Shall enter They shall hurl
them from thei r throne s s pringing a s lion s fro m
their den s and like fami s hed wolve s into the mid s t
Of the flock
1 0 They Shall go up and tread upon the land of
their elect The land of th e ir elect s hal l be before
them The thre s hing fl o o r the path and the cit y
o f my righteous p e op l e s hall impede the p r o g re ss of
their horses They Shall rise up to de s troy each
other ; their right hand shall be s trengthened ;
nor s hall a man acknowledge h i s friend o r h i s
brother ;
1 1 Nor the s o n hi s fat h er and h i s mother ; until
the number O f the dead bodies s hal l be co mp l e te d
b y t h eir death and puni s hment Nei t her Shall thi s
take place without cau s e
1 2 In tho s e days Shall the mouth Of hell be
Opened into which they shall be immerged ; hel l
Shall destroy and swallow up sinners from the fa ce
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2 A nd they c a me upon the wind from the ea s t
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The sound Of the noise Of thei r chariots wa s
heard
4 A nd when that agitation took place the saint s
o ut o f heaven perceived it ; the pillar Of the earth
its foundation ; and the sound w a s
s hook from
heard from the extremities Of the earth unto the
extremities Of heaven a t the same time
5 Then t hey all fell do w n and worshipped the
Lord of s pirits
6 This i s the end Of the second parable
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I n o w began to utter the third parable c o n
cerning the saints and the elect
2 Blessed are ye O saints and elect for glorious
is your l o t
3 The saint s shall exist in the light Of the sun
and the elect in the light Of everla s ting life the
days Of who s e life shall neve r terminate ; nor shall
the days Of the saint s be numbered who seek for
light and Obtain righteousness with the Lord Of
s pirits
4 Peace be to the saints w i th the Lord Of the
world
5 Henceforward shall the saints be told to seek
in heaven the secrets Of righteousness the portion
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In the five hundredth year and in the seve n th
month on the fourtee n th da y Of the month Of the
l ifetime Of Enoch in that parable I s a w that the
heaven Of heavens s h o o k ; t h a t it shook v iolently ;
and that the powers of the Mo s t High and th e
angels thou s ands Of thou s a nd s and myriads Of
And
m yriads were agitated with great a gitation
when I look e d the Ancient of day s w a s sitting o n
the throne Of h i s glory while the angels and saints
were s tanding around him A great trembling cam e
upon me and terror seized me My loins were
bowed do w n and loo s ened my reins were dis s olved ;
and I fe l l upon my face The holy Michael ; anothe r
holy angel one Of the holy ones was sent who
rai s ed me up
2 A nd when he rai s ed me my s pirit ret urned ;
for I was incapable o fenduring this vi s ion of violence
its agitatio n a n d the concu s sion of hea v en
3 Then hol y Michael said to me Wherefore art
thou disturbed at this vision 2
4 Hitherto h a s existed the day Of mercy ; and
he h a s been merciful and longsuffering towards all
who dwell upon the earth
5 But when the time s hall come then s h a l l the
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LVI I I
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power the puni s hment and the judgment ta k e p l a ce
which the Lord Of s pirit s h a s prepared for those
who pro s trate them s elves to th e judgment Of right
e o us n e s s for tho s e who abj ure th at judgment and
for those who take hi s name in vain
6 That day has been prepared for the e l ect
a s a da
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7 In that day s hall be distributed fo r fo o d two
m on s te rs ; a female mon s ter who s e nam e i s Levia
than d w elling i n the depths Of the s e a above the
s prings of waters
8 A nd a m ale m o n s te r whose name is Behemoth
which possesses m ov i ng o n h i s brea s t the in v i s ible
wildernes s
9 Hi s name was De n da y e n in the east Of the
garden where the elect and the righteou s will
dwell ; where he received i t from my ance s tor who
was man from Adam the first Of men whom the
Lord Of spirit s m ade
1 0 Then I asked Of ano t her a n gel to Show me
the power Of those monsters h o w they became
s e parated o n t h e s a me day o n e b e i n
in
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o f the se a and o n e in the dr y de s ert
1 1 And he said Thou so n Of man art here
desirous Of understanding secret th i ngs
And the angel Of peace who was with me
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ENOC H
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said These t w o m onsters are by the p o we r Of God
prepared to become food that the puni s hment o f
God may n o t be in vai n
Then shall children be s lain with their
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mother s and sons with their fathers
1 4 And when the puni s hment o f the Lord O f
Spirits shall continue upon th e m s hall it continue
that the punishment Of the Lord Of Spirits m a y not
take place in vain After that judgment shall exist
with mercy and longsu ffering
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Then another angel who proceeded with me
Spoke t o me ;
2 A nd Showed me the first and last secrets in
heaven above and in the depths Of the earth :
3 In the extremities Of heaven and in the foun
dations Of it and in the recep t acle Of the winds
4 He s ho w e d m e how their s pirits were divided
how they were balanced ; and h o w both the Spring s
and the wind s were numbered according to t h e force
Of their spirit
5 He sho w e d m e the power Of the moon s lig h t
that its power is a j u s t o n e ; as well as the divi s ion s
Of the stars according to their re s pective names
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OCH
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light and in darkness in winter and in
summer It receptacle is bright, and an an gel is
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The Spirit Of dew ha s its abode in the e x tre
m i t i e s Of heaven in connection with the receptacle
Of rain and its progress is in winter and in summer
The cloud produced b y it and the cloud Of the mist
become united ; o n e gives to the other ; and w h en
the spirit o f ra i n is in motion from i t s receptacl e
angels come and Opening its receptacle bring it
for t h
1 3 When likewise it is sprinkled over all the
earth it forms an union wit h every kind o f water
o n the ground ; fo r the waters remain on the ground
because they afo rd nouri s hment t o the earth from
the Mo s t H i gh who is in heaven
1 4 Upon this account therefore there is a regu
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receive
1 5 Th e se things I saw ; all Of them even para
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In those days I beheld lon g ropes given to
t hose angel s ; who took to their wing s and fled
advancing towards the north
2 A nd I inquired o f the angel saying Where
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fore have they taken those long ropes and gone
forth ? He said The y are gone forth to measure
3 The angel w h o proceeded with me said These
are the measures Of the righteous ; and cords Shall
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the righteous bring that they may trust i n the
n ame Of the Lord Of s pirits for ever a n d ever
4 The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect
5 And these are the measures which S h all be
g i ven to faith and w hi ch shall strengthen the words
Of righteousness
6 The s e measures S h all reveal all the secret s i n
the dep th Of the earth
7 And i t s h a l l be that those w h o have been de
stroyed in the de s ert and who have been devoured
by the fish o f the s e a and by wild bea s t s shall
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return and trust in the da y Of the El e ct O ne ; fo r
none shall peri s h in the presence Of the Lord Of
Spirits n o r Shall any be capable Of perishing
8 Then they received the commandment all w ho
w e re in the heavens above ; to whom a combined
power voice and splendour like fire were given
9 And fir s t with the i r voice they blessed him
they exalted him they glorified him with wisdom
and ascribed to him wisdom with the word and
with the breath o f life
1 0 Then the Lord o f spirits seated up o n the
throne o f h i s glory the Elect O ne
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Who Shall j udge all the works Of the holy in
heaven above and in a balance shall he weigh their
action s And when he shall lift up his countenance
to j udge their secret wa y s in the word Of the name
Of the Lord Of spirits and their progress in the path
Of the righteous j udgment Of Go d mo s t high
1 2 They shall all s peak with united voice ; and
bless glorify exalt and praise in the name Of the
Lord Ofs pirits
1 3 He s hall call to every power Of the heavens
to all the holy above and to the power o f God The
Cherubim the S eraphim and the Oph a n i n all the
angels Of power and all the angels Of the Lords
namely Of the Elect O ne and Of the other Power
who w a s upon earth over the water o n that day
1 4 S hall raise their united voice ; shall bless
glorify praise and exalt with the spirit Of faith
with the spirit Of wisdom and patience with the
s pirit Of mercy
with the spirit Of j udgment and
pe a ce and with the Spirit o f benevolence all shall
voice : Ble s sed i s He ; and the
s a y with united
name Of the Lord Of spirits shall be ble s sed for ever
and for ever ; a l l who sleep not shall bless it in
heaven above
1 5 All the holy in heaven shall bless it ; all the
elect who dwell in the garden Of life ; and every
s pirit Of light who is capable Of blessing glorifyi n g
e xalting and praisi n g thy holy na m e ; a n d every
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Trouble Shall come upon them as upon a
woman in travail whose labour is severe when her
child comes to the mouth o f the womb and s h e
find s it difficult to bring for t h
8 O ne portion Of them Shall look upon another
They shall be astonished and shall humble their
countenance
9 And trouble s hall seize them when they shall
behold this S o n Of woman sitting upon the throne
Of his glory
1 0 Then Shall the kings the prince s and all who
possess the earth glorify him who has dominion
over all things him who was conceal e d ; for from
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the beginning the S on Of man existed in secret
w hom the Most High preserved in the presence o f
h i s power and revealed to the elect
1 1 He s hall s o w the cong regation o f the saints
and Of t h e elect ; and all the elect shall stand
before him in that day
1 2 All the kings the princes the exalted and
those who rule over the earth Shall fall down o n
their faces before him and shall worship him
1 3 They Shall fix their h o pes o n this S on o f man
shall pray to him and petition him for mercy
1 4 Then s hall the Lord Of spirits ha s ten to expel
them from his pre s ence Their faces s hall be full
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The angels shall tak e them to punishment that
vengeance may be inflicted o n tho s e who have
oppressed h i s children and his el e ct A nd they Shall
become an example to the saint s and to his elect
Through them s hall these be made j oyful ; for the
anger Of the Lord Of spirits Shall rest upon them
1 5 Then the sword Of the Lord o f spirits s hall
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be drunk with their blood ; but the saints and
elect shall be safe in that day ; nor the face Of the
Sinners and the ungodly shall they thenceforwar ds
behold
1 6 The Lord Of Spiri t s shall remain over them
1 7 A nd with this S on Of man shall they dwell
eat lie down and ri s e up fo r ever and ever
1 8 The s aints and the elect have ari s en from t h e
earth have left Off to depress their countenance s
and have been clothed w ith the garment Of life
That garment o f life is with the Lord Of spirits i n
whose presence your garment shall not wax Old nor
s hall your glory diminish
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In those d ays the kings who posses s the earth
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s hall be pun i shed
wheres o ever th e y Sha l l be delivered up that he
may g i ve rest fo r a short period ; and that they
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may fall down and wors hip before the Lord o f
spirits confes s ing their sins before him
2 They sh all bless and glorify the Lord o f
Spirit s saying Bles s ed is the Lord Of spirit s the
Lord Of kings the Lord Of princes the Lord Of
the rich the Lord o f glory and the Lord Of wi s dom
3 He s hall enlighten every secret thing
4 Thy power i s from generation to generation ;
and thy glory for ever and ever
5 Deep are all thy secrets and numberless ; and
thy righ t eousne s s canno t be computed
6 N o w we know that we s hould glorify and
ble s s the Lord Of kin gs him who is King over all
things
7 They s hall al s o sa y Who has granted us rest
to glorify laud ble s s and confess in the presence Of
his glory
8 A nd n o w small is the rest we desire ; but we
do not find i t we rej ect and do not possess i t
Light has passed away from before us ; and dark
n e s s h a s co v e re d o ur thrones for ever
9 Fo r we have not confe s sed before him ; we
have not glorified the name Of the Lord o f king s ;
we have not glorified the Lord in all his works ; but
we have trusted in the sceptre Of o ur dominion and
Of o ur glory
1 0 In the day Of o ur su ffering and Of o ur trouble
h e will n o t s ave us n either shall we find rest
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In those da ys Noah saw that the earth becam e
inclined and that destruction approached
2 Then he lifted up his feet and went to the
ends o f the earth to the d w elling Of his great
grandfather Enoch
3 And Noah cried with a bitter voice Hear me ;
hear me ; hear me : three ti m es A nd he s aid Tell
m e what i s transacting upon earth ; for the earth
labour s and is violently s haken
S urely I Shall
perish with it
4 After this there was a great perturbation o n
earth and a voice w a s heard from heaven I fe ll
down on my face when my great grandfather Enoch
came and s tood by me
5 He s aid to me Why hast thou cried o ut to
me with a bitter cry and lamentation ?
6 A commandment has gone forth from the
Lord against tho s e who dwell o n t h e earth that
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they may be destroye d ; for they k n o w every
every Oppressive and secret
s ecret O f the angels
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po w er Of the devils and every power Of those who
co m mit sorcery as well as Of tho s e who make
molten i m a g es in the whole earth
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They k no w h o w
silver i s produced from the
dust Of the earth and how o n the earth the me ta l l i c
drop exi s ts ; for lead and tin are not produced from
earth as the prim ary fountain of their production
8 There i s an angel standing upon it and that
angel struggles to prevail
9 After w ard s my great grandfather Enoch seized
me with his hand rai s ing me up and saying to me
GO fo r I have a sked the Lord Of s pirits respecting
thi s perturbation Of the earth ; who replied O n
account o f their impiety have their innumerable
judgments been consummated befo re me Re s pect
ing the moons have they inquired and they have
known that the earth will peri s h with tho s e who
dwell upon it and that to the s e there will be n o
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a ce of refuge for ever
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1 0 They have di s covered secre t s and th ey a re
those who have been j udged ; but not thou my
The Lord Of Spirits knows that thou art pure
so n
and good fre e from the reproach Of di s co v e ri ng
secrets
1 1 He the holy On e will establish th y name in
the midst Of the s ain t s and will pre s erve thee from
those who d w ell upon the earth He w ill establi s h
th y s eed in righteou sness with dominion and great
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glory ; and from thy seed shall s pring forth
righteou s a nd holy men without number for ever
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C HAP LX V
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Afte r this he s howed me the angels of punish
ment who were prepared to come and to Open all
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the mighty waters under the earth
2 That they may be for j udgment and for th e
destruction Of all those who remain and d w ell upon
the earth
3 And the Lord Of spirits commanded the
angels who went forth not to take up the men and
preserve the m
4 Fo r those angels p res i de d over all the mighty
waters Then I went o ut from the presence Of
Enoch
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In those day s the word of Go d came to me
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and said Noah behold thy l o t has ascended up
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to m e a lot void Of crime a l o t beloved and
upright
2 Now then shall the angels labour at the trees
b ut w h en they proceed to this I will put my hand
upon it and preserve it
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3 The seed Of life s h all arise from it and a
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be left empty I will establish thy seed before me
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have denied the Lord Of spirits and a l tho ug h they
perceive their condemnation day by day they believe
not in his name
1 0 And a s the inflammation Of their bodies Shall
be great so Shall their spirits undergo a change for
ever
1 1 For no word which is uttered before the Lord
Of Spirits Shall be in vain
1 2 Judgment has come upon them because they
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trusted in their carnal revelry and denied th e Lord
Of spirits
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1 3 In those days shall the waters Of that valley
be changed ; for when the angel s shall be j udged
then s hall the heat Of those springs Of water ex
e ri e n c e an alteration
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1 4 And when the angels shall a s cend the water
Of the Springs Shall a g a i n undergo a change and be
frozen The n I heard holy Michael answering
and sa y ing This j u dgment with which the angels
Shall be j udged s hall bear testimony against the
kings the prince s and those who po s sess t h e
earth
1 5 Fo r the s e waters o f j udgment shall be fo r
their healing and for the death Of their bo d ies
But they shall not perceive and believe that the
waters will be changed and become a fire which
Shall blaz e for ever
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CH A P LX V II
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After th is he gave me the characteristical
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marks Of all the s ecret things in the book Of m y
great grandfather Enoch and in the parables which
had been given to h i m ; inserting them for me
among the words of the book of parables
2 A t that ti m e holy Michael answered and said
to Raphael The po w er Of the spirit hurries me
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away and impels me o u
The severity of the
j udgment Of the s ecret j udgment Of the an gel s who
is capable of be ho l d i ng the endurance Of that se v ere
j udgment whic h has taken plac e and been made
permanent without being melted at the s ight Of
3
Again holy Michael ans w ered and said to holy
it
Raphael Who is there who s e hear t is not softened
by it and whose reins are n o t troubled at this
thing
3 Ju d gment has gone forth against them by
those who have thus dragged them away ; and that
wa s when they stood in the presence Of the Lord Of
spirit s
4 In like manner al s o holy R a k a e l said to
Raphael They s hall n o t be before the eye Of the
Lord ; since t h e Lord Of Spirits has been o ffended
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ith them ; fo r like Lords have they conducted
themselves Therefore will he bring upon them a
secret j udgment for ever and ever
5 Fo r neither shall angel nor man receive a
portion Of it ; but they alone shall receive thei r o w n
j udgment for ever and ever
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CHAP LXVIII
1 A fter t h is j udgment they shall be astoni s hed
and irritated ; for it shall be exhibited to the i n h a b i
t ant s Of the earth
2 Behold the names Of those angels
These a re
their names The fir s t o f them is Sa m ya za ; the
rs t i k a h a : the third Armen ; the fourth
s econd A
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K a k a b a e l ; the fifth Turel ; the sixth R um y e l ;
the seventh Danyal ; the eighth Kael ; the ninth
Ba ra k e l ; the tenth A zazel the eleventh A rmers ;
the twelfth Ba t a ry a l ; the thirteenth Ba sa sa e l ; the
fourteenth An a n e l the fifteenth Turya l ; the Six
t e e n t h S i m a p i s e e l ; the seventeenth Y e t a re l ; the
eighteenth Tum a e l the nineteenth Tarel ; the
twentieth Rumel ; the twenty firs t Az a z ye l
3 The s e are the chiefs Of their ange l s and the
names Of t h e leaders Of their hundreds and the
leaders Of their fifties and the leaders Of their tens
4 The name Of the first is Y e k un : he it was who
seduced all the sons Of the holy angels ; and causing
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S ince they were not created except th at like
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the angels they might remain righteous and pure
1 5 Nor would death which destro y s everythin g
have affected them
1 6 But by this the i r knowledge they perish and
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by thi s also i ts po w er cons umes the m
1 7 The name o f the fift h is Ka sy a d e : he dis
covered to the children of men every wicked stroke
Of Spirits and o f demons
1 8 The stroke Of the embryo in the womb to
diminish i t the stroke Of t h e s pirit by the bite of
the serpent a n d the stroke w hich is g i v e n in the
mid day by the Ofl s p ri n g Of the serpen t the name Of
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which is Ta b a e t
1 9 This is the number Of the Ke s b e l ; the princi
pal part Of the oath which the Most High dwelling
i n glory revealed to the holy ones
2 0 Its name is Beka
He spoke to holy Michael
to discover to them the sacred name that they
might understand that s ecret name and thus re
member the oath ; and that those who pointed o ut
every s ecret thi n g to the children o f men m ight
tre m ble at that name and oath
2 1 Thi s i s the power Of that oath ; for powerful
it i s and strong
2 2 A nd he e s tabli s hed thi s oath Of Akae by the
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instrumentality Of the holy Michael
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These are the secrets Of this oath and by it
were they confirmed
24 Heaven w a s suspended by i t before the world
was made for ev e r
25 By it h a s the earth been founded upon the
flood ; while from the conceale d parts of the hill s
the agitated waters proceed forth from the creation
t o the end Of the world
2 6 By this oath the sea has been formed and
the foundation Of it
2 7 D uring t h e period Of i ts fury he has estab
l i s h e d the sand again s t it which continues un
changed for ever ; and by this oath the aby s s h a s
been made strong ; nor is it removable from i t s
s tation for ever and ever
2 8 By this oath the s un and moon complete
their progres s never s w erving from the co m mand
v e n to the m for ever and ever
i
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29 By this oath t h e s tars complete their p ro
gre s s ;
3 0 And when their names are called they return
an ans w er fo r ever a n d ever
3 1 Thus i n the heaven s ta k e p l a ce the blowing s
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e ect a complete combina t ion Of breathings
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the splendour Of the lightning
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There are kept the treasures of hail and Of
frost the treasures Of snow the treasures Of rain and
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All these confess and laud before the Lord Of
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spirits
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They glorify w ith all their power Of praise ;
and he sustains them in all that a ct of thanksgiving ;
while the y laud glorify and exalt the name Of the
Lord o f spirits fo r ever and ever
3 6 And with the m he e s tabli s hes this oath by
which they and their paths are preserved ; nor d o e s
their progress peri s h
3 7 Great was their j oy
3 8 They blessed glorified and exalted b e cau s e
the name o f the S on Of man was reve a led to them
3 9 He s a t upon the throne Of his glory ; and the
principal part Of the j udgment was assigned to him
the S on Of man S inners shall disa ppear and perish
from the face Of the earth while those who seduced
them shall be bound with chains for ever
4 0 According to their ranks Of corrup t ion shall
they be impri s oned and all their works shall d i s
appear from the face of the earth ; nor t h e n c e fo r
ward s hall there be any to corrupt ; for the S on
of man has been seen sitting o n t h e throne Of his
glory
4 1 Everything wicked shall disappear a n d de
part from before h i s face and the word Of the S o n
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I sa w two rivers Of fire glittering lik e t h e
h yacinth
3 Then I fell o n my face before the Lord OfSpirits
4 And Michael o n e Of the archangel s took m e
by my right hand raised m e up and brought m e
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o ut to where w a s every secret o
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5 He showed me all the hidden t h ings Of the
extremities o f heaven all the receptacles o f the
stars and the splendours Of all from whence they
went forth before the face Of the holy
6 And he concealed the spirit Of Enoch in the
heaven Of heaven s
7 There I beheld i n the midst Of that light a
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building raised with stones o f ice ;
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liv i ng fire My s piri t sa w around the circle of thi s
flaming h abitation o n o n e Of its extremities tha t
there w e re rivers full Of living fire which e n c o m
pa s sed it
9 Then the S eraphim the Cherubim and Op h a n i n
s urrounded i t : the s e are those who never sleep b ut
watch the throne Of his glor y
1 0 And I beheld angels innumerable thousand s
Of thousands and myriads Of myriads who s ur
rounded that habitation
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CHAP LXX
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Michael Raphael Gabrie l Phanuel and the
holy angels who were in the heaven s above went in
and o ut Of it Michael Raphael and Gabriel went
o ut Of that habitation and holy angels innumerable
1 2 With them w a s the Ancient Of days who s e
head w a s white as wool and pure and his robe w a s
indescribable
1 3 Then I fell upon my face whi l e all my flesh
was dissolved and my spirit became changed
1 4 I cried o ut with a loud voice with a powerful
spirit blessing glorifying and exalting
1 5 A nd t ho s e blessings which proceeded from
my mouth became acceptable in the presence Of
the Ancient Of days
1 6 The A nc i ent Of days came with Michael and
Gabriel Rap h ael and Phanuel with thou s ands Of
thousand s and m y riads of myriads which could not
be numbered
1 7 Then that angel came to me and with his
voice saluted me saying Thou a rt the O ffs pring Of
man w h o art born for righteou s ness and righteous
nes s h a s rested on thee
1 8 The righteousness Of the Ancient o f days shall
not forsake thee
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1 9 He said O n thee shall he confer peace in
the name Of the exi s ting world ; fo r from thence has
peace gone forth since the world was create d
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And thus shall it happen to thee for ever
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ever
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All who Shall exi s t and who s hall walk in
thy pat h Of righteousne s s s hall not forsake thee for
ever
2 2 With thee shall be their habitations with
thee their lot ; nor from thee Shall they be separated
fo r ever and ever
2 3 And thus shall length Of days be with the
O ffspring Of man
24 Peace s hall be to the righteous and the path
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in the nam e
o f integrity s hall the righteous pursue
of the Lord Of spirits for ever and ever
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The book Of the revolutions Of the luminaries
Of heaven according to their re s pective classes their
r e spective powers their respective periods their
respective names the place s where t h ey commence
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their progress and their respective months which
Uriel the holy angel who was with me explained
to me he who conducts them The whole account
O f them according to every yea r o f the world for
ever unti l a new work Shall be e ffected which will
be eternal
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there are twelve open windo w s ; from which iss ues
o ut a flame when they are opened at their proper
periods
1 2 W h en the s un ri s es in hea v en it goes forth
through this fourth gate thirty da y s and by the
fourth gate in the west Of heaven on a level with it
descend s
1 3 During that period the day is le n gthened
from the day and the night curtailed from t h e
night for thirty days A nd then the day is longer
by two parts than the night
1 4 The day is precisely ten parts and the night
is eight
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1 5 The s un goes forth through this fourth gate
and sets m it and turns to the fifth gate during
thirty days ; after which it proceeds from and sets
in the fifth gate
1 6 Then the day becomes lengthened by a
second portion S O that it i s eleven parts while the
night become s shortened and is only seven parts
1 7 The s un n o w returns to the ea s t entering
into the sixth gate and ri s ing and setting in the
s ixth gate thirty one days o n account O f its signs
1 8 At that period the day is longer than the
night b e i n g twice a s l o ng a s the nigh t ; and becomes
twelve parts ;
1 9 But the night is shortened and becomes six
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parts Then the s un rises up t hat the day may be
s hortened and the n ight lengthened
2 0 And the s un returns toward s the east ent e r
ing into the Sixth gate where it rises and sets for
thirty day s
2 1 When that period is completed the day b e
comes shortened preci s ely o ne part s o that it is
eleven parts while the night is seven parts
22 Then the s un goes fro m the we s t from that
s ixth gate
and proceeds east w ard s rising in the
fifth gate for thirty days and setting again we s t
wards i n the fifth gate o f the west
At that period the day becomes shortened
two parts ; and is ten parts while the night is ei ght
parts
2 4 Th e n the s un goes from the fifth gate a s it
s et s in the fifth gate o f the we s t ; and rises in the
fourth gate for thirty one day s on account Of its
s igns setting in the we s t
2 5 At that period the day is made equal with
the night ; and being equal with it the night
becomes nine part s and the day nine parts
2 6 Then the sun goes from that gate as it set s
in the west and returning to the east proceeds by
the third gate for thirty days setting in the west at
the third gate
2 7 At that period the night is lengt h ened from
the day during thirty mornings and the day is cur
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tailed fro m the day during thirty days ; t h e night
bein g ten parts precisely and the day eight part s
2 8 The s un now goes from the third gate as it
but returning to
s et s in the third gate in the west
the east it proceeds by the second gate Of the east
fo r thirty d a y s
2 9 In like manner also it sets in the second gate
in the west Of heaven
3 0 At that period the night i s eleven parts and
the day s ev e n parts
3 1 Then the s un goes at that time from the
second gate as it sets in the second gate in the
we s t ; but returns to the east p ro ce e di ng by the first
gat e for thirt y o n e day s
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3 2 And sets in the west in the first gate
3 3 At that period the night is lengthened as
m uch again as the day
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3 4 It i s twelve parts precisely while the day is
Six part s
3 5 The s un has thus completed its beginnings
and a second time goes round from these beg in
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ing luminary that which he names the sun for eve r
and ever
4 6 This also is t hat which goe s forth a great
luminary and which is named after its peculiar
kind as God commanded
4 7 And thu s it goe s in and o ut neither slackening
nor resting but r unnin g on in i t s chariot by day and
by night It s hines w i th a s eventh portion Of light
from the moon ; but the d i m ensions Of both are equal
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After this l a w I beheld anot h er law o f an i n
fe ri o r lu m inary the name o f which is the m oon
and the orb o f which is a s the o rb o f heaven
2 I t s chariot w hi ch it s e cretl y ascends the wind
blow s and light is given to it b y mea sure
Every month at its exit and entrance it b e
come s cha n ged ; and its periods are a s the p e riod s
Of the s un An d when in like manner its light is to
exist i t s light is a seventh portion from the light of
the sun
4 Thus i t ri s es and at i t s commencement toward s
the east goes forth for thirty days
5 At that time it appears and becomes to y ou
Thirt y days i t i s with
t h e b e ginning O f the month
the s un in the gate from which the s un goes forth
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Half o f it is in extent seven portions o n e
h a l f and the whole Of its o rb i s void of lig h t ex
cept a seventh portion o ut o f the fou rteen portions of
i t s light A nd in a day it receive s a seventh portion
o r half th a t
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7 A nd when the s un rises the moon rises with
it ; receiving half a portion Of light
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8 O n t hat night when it co m mences its period
previou s ly to the day Of the month the moon sets
with the sun
9 A nd on that night i t is dark i n its fourteen
portions that i s i n e a ch half ; but it rises o n that
day with one s eventh portion preci s ely and in its
progres s decline s from t h e ri s ing Of the s un
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increases to fourteen portions
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which He e ffected in th e l a w Of the moon
The
progre s s Of the moons and everything re l a ti ng to
the m Uriel s ho w ed me the holy angel who con
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Their stations I wrote down as he Showed them
to me
3 I wrote down their months as they occur and
the appearance Of their light until it is completed
in fifteen da y s
4 In each o f i t s two seven portions it completes
all its light at ri s ing and at setting
5 O n stated months it changes i ts settings ; and
o n s tated month s it makes i t s progre s s thr o ug h each
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the t h ird and fourth gate Fr o m the thi rd g a te it
goe s forth for seven day s and makes its circuit
6 Again it r e turns to the gate whence the s un
goes forth and in that completes the whole Of its
light Then it declin e s fro m the s un and enters in
eight days into the sixth gate a n d re tur ns i n s e v e n
d a ys t o the th i rd g a te from which the s un goe s
forth
7 When the s un proceeds to the fourth gate
the m o o n goes forth for s even days until it passes
from the fifth g a te
8 A gain it r eturns in seven days to the fourth
gate and completing all i t s light d e cline s and
pas ses o n by the first gate in eight days
9 And returns in seven da y s to the fourth gate
from which t h e s un goes forth
1 0 Th us I beheld their stations as according
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rise and s e t in them for thirty days
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the leaders of the chiefs o f the
t h ousands tho se w hich p resi de over all creation
and over all the stars ; with the four da ys which
are added and never separated from the place
allotted t hem according to the complete computa
tion of the year
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luminarie s truly serve in the man s ion o f the world
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5 The s easons
6 The years
7 And the days Uriel showed me ; the angel
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whom the Lord o f glory appointed over all the
luminaries
8 O f heaven in heaven and in the world ; that
they might rule in the face o f the sk y and appear
ing over the earth become
9 Conductors of the days and nights : the sun
the m oon the s tars and all t h e mini s t e r s of heaven
which make their circuit with all the chariots of
heaven
1 0 Thus Uriel showed me twelve gates open for
the circuit of the chariots o f the s un in heaven
from which the rays o f the s un shoot forth
1 1 From these proce e d heat over the earth when
they are opened in their stated s ea s on s They are
for the w ind s and the s pirit o f the dew when in
t heir sea s ons they are opened
opened in heaven at
i ts extre m itie s
1 2 Twelve gates I beheld in heaven at the ex
t re m i t i e s of the earth through which the s un moo n
and stars and all the works o f heaven proceed at
their ri s ing and setting
1 3 Man y window s also are open o n the right
and on the left
1 4 O ne windo w at a ce r ta i n season grows ex
S o al s o are there gate s from whic h
t re m e l y hot
the stars go forth as they are commanded and in
which they se t according to their number
1 5 I saw likewi s e the chariots o f heaven runni n g
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in the world above t o tho s e gates in which the s tars
turn which never s e t O ne o f the s e is greater than
all which goes round the whole world
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And at the extremities o f the earth I beheld
twelve gates open fo r all the wind s from which
they proce e d and blo w o v er the earth
2 Three of them are open in the front o f heaven
three in the w e s t three o n the right s ide o f heaven
The fir s t three are those
a n d three o n the left
which are towards the ea s t three are towards the
north three behind tho s e which are upon the left
toward s the south and three o n the west
3 From four of the m proceed w ind s o f bles s ing
and of health ; a nd from eight proceed wind s of
punishment ; when they are s ent to de s troy the
ear t h and t h e heaven a b ove it all i t s inhabitant s
and all which are in the waters or o n dry land
4 The fir s t o f t hese winds proceeds from the gate
termed the ea s tern through the fir s t gate o n the
ea s t which incline s south w ard s From thi s goes
forth destr uction drought heat and perdition
5 From the s econd gate the middl e one proceeds
equity There issue from it rain fruitfulness he a l t h
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1 3 All their laws all their i nfl i cti o n o f puni s h
ment and the health p ro duce d by them have I
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The first wind is called the eastern because it
is the first
2 The second is called the so uth because th e
Mo s t High there d e s cends and frequently there
descend s h e w h o i s blessed fo r ever
3 The western w ind has the n a me o f diminution
becau s e there all the luminaries o f heaven are
diminished and descend
4 The fourth wind which is n amed the north
i s divided into three part s ; o n e o f which is fo r the
habitation o f man ; another for seas o f w ater wi t h
valley s woods river s shady places and sno w ; and
the third part co n ta i n s paradi s e
5 S even h igh mountains I beheld higher than
all the mountain s o f the earth fro m which fro s t
proceeds ; while days seasons and y ears depart and
pass away
6 S even rivers I beheld upon earth greater than
all river s o n e o f which takes its course from the
west ; into a great s e a its water flows
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Tw o
come from the north to the s e a th e ir
water s flo w ing into the Er y thr ae an s e a o n the ea st
And with re s pect to the r e m aining four the y take
their cours e in the cavity o f the north tw o to their
sea the Erythr aean s e a and two are poured into a
great s e a where al s o it i s s aid ther e i s a d e sert
8 S even great i s lan d s I saw in the s e a and on
the earth S even in the great s e a
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The name s of the s un are the s e : o n e Arya re s
the other Tomas
2 The moon h a s four n ame s The first is A
so ny a ;
the s econd Eb l a ; the third Be n a s e ; and the fourth
B rae
3 The s e are the two great luminaries whose orbs
are a s the orbs of heaven ; and the dimension s o f
both a re equal
4 In the orb o f the s un th e re i s a s eventh portion
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o f light which i s added to it from the m oon
mea s ure it i s p ut in until a seventh portion of th e
They s e t enter into
l i g h t of the s un i s departed
the we s tern gate circuit by the north and throug h
the ea s tern gate go forth over the face o f heaven
5 When t h e moon ri s e s it appears in heaven ;
and the half of a seventh portion o f light i s all
w h i ch i s in it
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three quintuple s light i s put into it until
i n fifteen da ys i t s light is completed according to
the s igns of t h e y ear ; it has three quintuples
8 The moon h a s the half of a s eventh portion
9 During its diminution o n the fir s t day i t s light
decrea s es a fourteenth part ; o n the second day it
decreases a thirtee n th part ; on the third day a
t w elfth part ; o n the fourth day an eleventh part ;
on t h e fifth day a tenth par t ; on the s ixth day a
ninth part ; on t h e s eventh day it decrea s e s an
eighth part ; o n the eighth day it dec reases a seventh
part ; o n the ni n th day it decre a s es a s ixth part ;
o n the tenth day it decrea s e s a fifth p art ; on the
eleventh day it decrea s es a fourth part ; o n the
t w elfth day it decreases a third part ; o n the thir
t e e n t h d a y it decrea s es a second part ; o n the four
t e e n t h da y it decrea s e s a h alf of i t s seventh par t ;
a n d o n the fifteenth day the whole re m
ainder o f its
light i s con s umed
1 0 O n sta t ed months the moon has twenty nine
days
1 1 It al s o has a period o f twenty eight d ays
1 2 Uriel like w i s e s howed me another regulation
when light i s poured into the moon h o w it is poured
into it from the s un
1 3 All the time that the moon is in progress
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as the fa ce of a man and in the day as hea v en ; for
it is nothing else except its light
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And n o w my s o n Mathu s ala I have shown
thee everything and th e a cco un t of every ordinance
o f the s tars o f heaven i s fini s hed
2 He showed me every ordinance r especting
these which ta k e s p l a ce at all time s and in all
sea s ons under every influence in all y ear s at the
arrival and under the rule of each during every
month and every week He s ho w e d m e al s o the
d ecrea s e of the moon which is e ffected in the s ixth
gate ; for in that sixth gate i s i ts light con s umed
3 From this is the beginning o f the month ; and
i t s decrea s e is e ffected in the sixth gate in its
period until a hundred and sevent y s even days are
completed ; according to the mode o f computation
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by w e ek s t w enty fiv e w e e k s and two day s
4 I ts p eri o d i s le s s than that o f the s un accord
ing to the ordinance of the stars by five days in
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preci s ely
o n e h a lf y ear
5 When that the i r visible situation is completed
S uch i s the appearance and likeness of every lumi
nary which Urie l the great angel who conducts
them showed to me
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CH A P LXXIX
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In those days Uriel ans w ered and s a i d to me
B e hold I h a ve s howed thee all things O Enoch
Tho u
2 And all thing s have I revealed to thee
see s t the sun the moon and t hose which conduct
t h e s tars of heaven which cau s e all their operation s
s eason s and a rr1 v a l s to return
3 In the days o f sinners the years sh all be
shortened
4 Their seed s h all be back w ard in their prolific
soil ; and ever y thing done o n earth s hall be s ub
v e rted and di s appear in its s ea s on The rain s hall
be re s trai ned and heaven shall s tand s till
5 In tho s e da y s the fruit s of the earth shall be
l ate and not flouri s h in their sea s on ; and in their
sea s on the frui t s o f the tree s s hall be withholden
6 The moon shall change its laws and not be
seen a t l i ts proper period But in tho s e d a y s s hall
h e a v e ii b e s een ; and barrenne s s s hall take plac e
in the borders o f the great chariots in the west
He a v e n s hall s hine more than w he n i l l um i n a te d by
the order s o f light ; while many chiefs among the
stars o f authority shall err perverting their ways
and works
i T ho s e s hall not ap pear in their season who
com m and th e m and all the classes o f the stars
s hall be shu t up against s inner s
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The th ought s of those who d w ell o n earth
shall transgress within them ; and the y shall be
perverted in all their ways
9 They s hall tran s gres s and think them s elves
gods while evil shall be m ultipli e d among them
1 0 A nd punishment shall come upon them s o
t h at all o f them shall be de s troyed
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He said O Enoch look on the book which
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heaven h a s gradually dropped down ; and reading
that which is written in it u
nderstand every part
o f it
2 Then I looked o n all which was written and
understood all reading the book and everythi n g
written in it all the works o f man ;
3 A nd o f all the child ren of flesh upon earth
during the generations o f the world
4 Immediately after I bl e ssed the Lord the
King o f glory who h a s thus fo r ever formed the
w hole workman s hip o f the world
5 And I glorified the Lord o n account o f his
long su ffering a n d blessing towards the children o f
the world
6 A t that time I said Bles s ed is the m a n who
shall die righteous and good against whom n o cata
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C HAP LXXXI
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Now my so n Mathusala all these things I
speak unto thee and write for thee
To thee I
have revealed all and have gi v en thee books o f
everything
2 Preserve m y son Mathusala the books written
1
by thy father ; that thou mayest transmit them to
future generations
3 Wisdom have I given to thee to thy childre n
and thy posterity that they may transmit to their
ch ildren for generations for ever this wisdom in
their thoughts ; and that those who comprehend i t
may n o t slumber but hear with their ears ; that
they may learn this wisdom and be deemed worthy
O f eatin
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4 Blessed are all the righteous ; blessed all who
walk in the p a ths of righteousness ; in whom no
crime i s fo un d as in sinners when all their days
are numbered
5 With respect to the progress o f the s un in
heaven it enters and goe s o ut o f e a ch gate for thirty
days with the leaders of the thousand cla s ses of the
stars ; with four which are added and appertain
to the four quarters o f the y ear which conduct
them and accompany them at four periods
6 Respecting these men greatly err and do not
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compute them in the computation o f every age ; for
they greatly err re s pecting them nor do men know
accurately that they are in t h e c o m put a t i o n o f the
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year But indeed these are marked down for ever ;
o n e in the fi rs t gate one in the third o n e in the
fourth and o n e in the sixth
7 S o that the year is completed in three hundred
and sixty four days
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8 Truly has been state d
been computed that which is marked down for the
luminaries the month s the fixed perio d s the years
and the day s Uriel has explained to me and com
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m un i c a t e d to me ; whom the Lord of all creatio n
according
to
the
migh
o n my account commanded
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o f heaven and the power which it po s s e s se s both by
night and by day ) to explain the l a w s of light to
man o f the sun moon and stars and of all the
powers o f heaven which are turned with their
respective orbs
9 This is the ordinance of the star s which s e t in
their places in their season s in their periods in
their days and in their months
1 0 These are the names o f those who conduct
them who watch and enter in their s easons according
to their ordinance in their periods in their month s
in the ti mes of their influence and in their s tations
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Four conductors of them first enter wh o
separate the four quarters of the year After these
t w elve conductors of their classe s who s eparate the
m onths and the ye a r i n to three hundred and s ixty
four da ys with the leader s of a thou s and who d i s
t i n g ui s h between the days as well as between the
four additional one s ; which a s conductors divide
the four quarters of the year
1 2 These le a ders of a thousand are in the midst
of the conductor s and the conductors are added
each b e hind his statio n and their conductors make
the s e paration These are the na m es of the con
d uc t o rs who separate the four quarters of the year
who are appointed o v er the m : e l k e l He l a m m e l a k
and Narel
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e l i ya l
1 4 A nd the names o f t h ose who conduct t h em
are Adn a re l Jya s us a l and Jy e l um e a l
1 5 T h e s e are the three who follo w after the con
d uc to rs of the cla s ses of s ta rs ; each follo w ing after
the three conductor s o f the clas s es which them
selves follo w after tho s e conductors of the stations
who divide the four quarters of the year
1 6 In t h e fir s t part o f the year ri s es and rules
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a s who i s named Tamani and Z a h a
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1 7 All the day s o f h i s influence duri ng which
he rules are ninety one day s
1 8 A nd these are the s igns of the d ays which
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CHAP LXXXII [ s no r x v v ]
1 And n o w I have shown thee my son Mathu
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sala every sight which I s a w prior to thy birth
I will relate another vi s ion which I sa w before I
w a s married ; they resemble each other
2 The first was when I was learning a book ;
and the other before I was married to thy mother
I s a w a potent vision ;
3 And o n account o f these things besought the
Lord
4 I was lying down in the house o f m y g rand
father a l a l e l w he n I sa w in a vision heaven puri
fyi n g and snatched away
5 And falling to the earth I saw likewise the
earth ab s orbed by a great abyss ; and mountains
su s pended over mountains
6 Hills were sinking upon hill s loft y trees were
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gliding o ff from their trunk s and were in the act
o f being proj ecte d and of s inking into the abyss
7 B e i ng a l a rm e d at the s e thing s m y voice
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fal t ered
I cried o ut and s aid The earth is de
s t royed Then my grandfather a l a l e l raised me
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and said to me : Why do st thou thus cr y o ut
my s o n ? and wherefore dost tho u thu s lament ?
8 I related to him the whole vi s ion which I had
s een
He said to me Confirmed is that which
tho u ha s t s een my s o n
9 A nd potent the vision o f thy dream respecting
e v ery s ecret s i n o f the earth I t s sub s tance shall
s i n k into the abyss and a great de s truction take
place
1 0 No w my s o n rise up ; and beseech the Lord
o f glor y (for thou art faithful
that
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remnant
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be left upon earth and that he would not wholly
de s troy it My s o n all this ca l a m i ty upon earth
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comes down from heaven
upon earth s hall there
be a great destr uction
1 1 Then I aro s e prayed and entreated ; and
wrote down my pra y e r for the generations o f the
world explaining e verythi n g to m y s o n Mat h u s ala
1 2 When I went o ut below and looking up to
heaven beheld the s un proceeding from the east the
moon de s cendi n g to the we s t a fe w s ca tte re d stars
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and everything which God has known from the
beginning I bles s ed the Lord o f judgment and
magnified him because he hath sent forth the s un
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ri s i ng l n the face of heaven it might s pring up and
pur s ue the path which h a s been pointed out to it
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CH A P LXXXIII
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I lifted up my h ands in righteousness and
blessed the holy and the Great O ne I spoke with
the breath o f my m outh and with a tongue o f fle s h
which God has formed for all the son s o f mortal
men that with it t h ey may speak ; givi n g them
breath a mouth and a tongue to conver s e wi t h
2 Bles s ed art thou O Lord the King great and
po w erful in th y greatne s s Lord o f all the creatur e s
of heaven King o f king s God o f the w h ole worl d
whose reign w h o s e kingdom and whose maj esty
endure for ever and ever
3 From generation to generation shall thy d o
minion e x i s t Al l the heavens are th y throne fo r
ever an d all the earth thy footstool for ever and for
e ver
4 Fo r thou ha s t m ade the m and over all thou
reigne s t
No act what s oever exceeds th y power
Vi t h thee wi s dom i s unchangeable ; nor from thy
throne and from thy presence is it ever averted
Thou knowest all thing s s ee s t and hearest the m ;
nor is anything concealed from thee ; for thou
perceivest all thin g s
5 The angel s o f thy heavens have tran s gressed
and o n mor t al fl e s h shall thy wrath remain until
the day o f the great j udgment
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The blac k heifer then s truck t h e red o n e and
pursued it over the earth
6 From that period I could se e nothing more of
the red heifer ; but the black one increased in bulk
and a female heifer came with him
7 After this I s a w that many cows proceeded
forth resembling him and follo w ing after him
8 The first female young o n e al s o went o ut in the
presence of the fir s t c o w and sought t h e red heifer ;
but found him not
9 A nd s h e lamented with a great lamentation
while sh e was seeking h i m
1 0 Then I looked until that first co w came to
her fro m which time she became silent and cea s ed
to lament
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fterwards s h e calved another white cow
1 2 And again calved many cows and black
heifers
1 3 In m y sleep also I perceived a white bull
which in like manner gre w and became a large
white bull
1 4 A fter him many white cows came forth re
s embling him
1 5 And they began to calve ma n y o th e r white
cow s which resembled them and followed each
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Again I looked attentively while sleeping
and surve y ed heaven ab o ve
2 And behold a single star fell from heaven
3 Which being raised up ate and fed among
those cows
4 After that I perceived o the r large and black
cows ; and behold all o f them changed their stalls
and pastures while their young began to lament
o n e with another
Again I l ooked in my vi s ion
and s urveyed heaven ; when behold I s a w many
stars which descended and proj e cted themselves
from heaven to where the fir s t s tar was
5 Into the midst o f tho s e y ou n g ones ; while
the cows were with them feeding in the mid s t o f
them
6 I looked at a n d observed them ; when behold
they all acted after the manner o f h orses and
began t o approach the young cows all o f whom
became pregnant and brought forth elephant s
camels and a ss e s
7 A t th e s e all the cows were alarmed and terri
fie d ; when they be g an biting with their teeth
swallowing and s trikin g with their horns
8 The y began also to devour the cows ; and
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behold all the children of the earth trembled shook
with terror at them and suddenly fled away
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Again I perceived them when they began to
strike and t o s wallow each other ; and the earth
cried out Then I rai s ed my e y e s a second time
towards heaven and s a w in a vi s ion that behold
there came forth from heaven as it were the li k ene s s
O ne came forth from thence and
o f white men
three with him
2 Tho s e three w h o came forth last seized m e
b y my hand ; and raising me up from the genera
tions of the earth elevated me to a high s tation
3 Then they showed me a lofty tower on th e
earth while every hill became diminished And
the y said Remain here until th o u perceive s t what
s hall come upon those elephant s camels and asse s
upon the stars and upon all the cows
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Then I looked at that o n e o f the four w hi te
m e n who came forth fir s t
2 He seized the first star which fell down from
heaven
3 An d binding it hand and foot he cast it into
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earth ; so that the village was not seen while its
whole soil was covered with water
5 Much water was over it darknes s and clouds
Then I surveyed the height o f this water ; and i t
was ele v ated above the village
6 It flowed over the village and stood higher
than the earth
7 Then all the cows which were collected there
while I looked o n them were dro w ned swallowed
up and destroyed in the water
All the cows
8 But the s hi p floated above it
the elephants the camels and the a s ses were
drowned o n the earth and all cattle No r could I
perceive t h em Neither were they able to get o ut
but perished and sunk into the deep
9 Again I looked in the V1 s 1 o n until those
cataracts from that lofty roof were removed and
the fountains o f the earth became equalized while
other depths were opened
1 0 Into whic h the water began t o descend until
the dry ground appeared
1 1 The ship remained o n the earth ; the dark
ness receded ; and it became light
1 2 Then the white c o w which became a man
went out o f the ship and the three co w s with him
1 3 O ne of the three cows was white resembling
that c o w ; o n e o f them w a s red as blood ; and o n e o f
them was blac k And the white cow left them
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Then began wild beast s and birds to bring
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O f all these the different kin d s assembled
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together lion s tiger s wo l ves dog s wild boars foxe s
rabbit s and the h anzar
1 6 The s i s e t the a v est kites the p h o n k a s and
ravens
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1 7 Then a white cow
them
1 8 And they began to bite each other ; when the
white cow which was bo rn in the mid s t of them
br o ught for th a wild a s s and a white cow at the
same t i me and afte r tha t many wild a s se s Then
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the white cow which w a s born brought forth a
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black wild s o w and a white she e p
1 9 That wild s o w al s o brought forth ma n y swi n e ;
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2 0 And that sheep b rought forth twelve sheep
2 1 W h en those twelve sheep grew up they
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2 2 A gain those asses deli v ered that sheep t o the
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2 3 And he gre w up in the mid s t of them
2 4 Then the Lord brought the eleven o ther
sh e ep that they might dwell and feed with him in
the mid s t o f the wolves
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They multiplied and there was abundance of
pasture for them
2 6 But the wolves began to frighten and oppre s s
them while they de s troyed their young one s
2 7 And they left their young in torrents of de e p
water
2 8 Now the s heep began to cry o ut o n account
o f th e ir young and fled for refuge to their Lord
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O ne however which was saved escaped and w e nt
awa y to the wild a s ses
2 9 I b e h e ld the sheep moaning crying and
petitioning their Lord
3 0 With all their might until the Lor d o f the
descended at their voice from hi s lofty
s heep
habitation ; went to them ; and in s pected th em
3 1 He called to that sheep which had secret l y
s tolen away from the wolves and told him to make
the wolve s under s tand that they were not to touch
the sheep
3 2 Then that sheep went to the wolves with the
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word o f the Lor d when another met him and
pr o ceeded with him
3 3 Both of them together entered the dwelling
and conversing with them made
o f the wolve s ;
them un de rs tand that from thenceforwards they
were not to t o uch the s heep
3 4 Afterward s I perceived the wolves greatly
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and was raised up until it covered t h e wolves And
I sa w that all of them which had followed the sheep
perished and w ere drowned
4 4 But the sheep passed over this water pro
to a wilderness wh i ch was without both
c e e di n g
water and grass And they beg an to open their
eves and to see
4 5 Then I beheld the Lord of the sheep inspect
ing them and giving them water and gra s s
4 6 The s heep a l r e a dy m e n t i o ne d was proceeding
w i th th e m and conducting them
4 7 A nd when he had ascended the top o f a lofty
rock the Lord of the s heep sent him to them
4 8 Afterwards I perceived their Lord standing
before them with an a spect terrific and se v ere
4 9 And when they all beheld him they were
frightened at h i s countenance
5 0 All o f them were alarmed and tremble d
They cried o ut after that sheep ; and to the other
sheep who had been wi t h him and who was in the
mid s t o f them s a yi ng We are not abl e to stand
before o ur Lord or to look upon him
5 1 Then that s heep who conducted them went
away and ascended the top o f the rock ;
5 2 When the r e s t of the sheep began to gro w
blind and to wander from the path which he had
shown them ; but he knew it not
5 3 Their Lord ho w ever was moved with grea t
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indignation against them and when that sheep h a d
learned w ha t ha d h app e n e d
5 4 He descended fro m the top of the rock and
comin g t o them found that there were man y
5 5 Which had become blind
5 6 A nd had wandered from his path
As so o n
as the y behel d him they feared and trembled at h i s
pre s ence ;
5 7 And became de s irous o f returning t o t h eir fold
5 8 Then that s heep taking with him other
sheep we nt to tho s e which had wandere d
5 9 An d afterwards began to kill them
The y
were terrified at h i s countenance Then he cau s ed
tho s e which had wandered to ret urn who went back
to their fold
6 0 I likewise s a w there in the vi s ion that this
sheep became a m a n built an hou s e for the Lord of
the s heep and m ade them all s tand in that hou s e
6 1 I perceived al s o that the s heep which pro
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too that all the great s heep peri s hed whi l e
sa w
smaller one s ro s e up in their place ent e red into a
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pa s ture and a pproached a river of water
6 2 Th e n that s heep their conductor who became
a man w a s s eparated from them and died
6 3 A ll the s heep s ought after him and cried for
him wit h bitter lamentation
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I s a w likewise that they ceased to cry after
that sheep and passed over the river of water
6 5 And t hat there aro s e other sheep all of whom
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conducted them instead o f those who w ere d ead
and who had p re v i o usl y conducted them
66 Then I s a w that the sheep entered into a
goodly place and a territory delectable and glorious
6 7 I s a w also that they became s atiated ; tha t
their house w a s in the mid s t of a delectable terri
tory : and that sometimes their eyes were opened
and that sometimes they were blind ; until another
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sheep arose and conducted them He brought
t h em all back ; and their eyes were opened
68 Then dogs foxe s and wild boars began to
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d evour them until a g a i n another s heep arose the
master of the flock o n e o f themselves a ram to
conduct them This ram began to butt o n ever y
side tho s e dogs foxes and wild boars until they all
perished
6 9 But the fo r m e r sheep opened his eyes and
s a w the ram in the mid s t o f them who had laid
aside h i s glory
7 0 A nd he began to strike the sheep treading
upon them and behaving him s elf wi t hout dignity
7 1 Then their Lord s ent the fo rm e r s heep a g a i n
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ferent sheep and raised him up to be
t o a s till di f
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ENOCH
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The house was l o w but the tower was elevated
and ve ry high
8 3 Then the Lord of the sheep stood upon that
tower and caused a full table to approach before him
8 4 A gain I s a w that those sheep wandered and
went various ways for s aking that their house ;
8 5 A nd that their Lord called to some among
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the m whom he s ent to them
8 6 But these the sheep began to kill
And when
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o n e o f them w a s saved from slaughter
and cried o ut against those who were desirous o f
killing him
8 7 But the Lord o f the sheep delivered h i m fro m
their hands and made him ascend to him and
remain with him
8 8 He s ent al s o many others to them to testify
and with lamentations to exclaim against them
89 A gain I s a w when some o f them forsook the
house o f their Lord and his tower ; wandering o n all
s id e s and growing blind
90 I s a w that the Lord o f the sheep made a
great slaughter among them in their pa s ture until
the y cried o ut to him in consequence o f that
slaughter Then he departed from the place of hi s
h a b i ta ti o n and left them in the power o f lion s
tig e r s wolves and the z e e b t and in the power o f
foxes and o f every beast
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And the wild beasts began to tear them
92 I s a w too that he fors o ok the hou s e o f their
father s and their to wer ; giving them all into t h e
power o f lio ns to tear and devour them ; into the
po wer o f ever y be a st
93 Th e n I began to cry o ut with al l my might
imploring the Lord o f the sheep and sho w ing him
how the sheep were devoured by all the beasts o f
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he looked o n in silence rej oicing that
they were d evoured s wallowed up and carried o ff;
and leaving the m in the power o f every beast for
food
He called also seventy shepherd s and re
that they
signed to them the ca re of the s heep
might overlook them ;
95 S aying to them and to their associates Ever y
and
o n e o f you hencefor w ards overlook t h e sheep
w hatsoever I command
o u do ; and I will deliver
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96 I will tell you which o f them shall be s lain ;
th e s e de s troy A nd he delivered the s heep to them
97 Then he called to another and s aid Under
stand and wat c h everything which the s hepherd s
shall do to the s e sheep ; for many more of them
s hall perish than I have com m a nded
98 O f every exce ss a nd slaughter which the
shepherds shall commit th e re sha l l b e an account ;
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as how many m a y have perished by my command
and how many they may have destroyed of their
o w n heads
99 O f all the destruction b ro ug ht a b out by each
o f the shepherds there sh all be an account ; and
according to the number I will cau s e a recital to be
m ade before me how many they have destroyed o f
their o w n heads and h o w many they have delivered
up to de s truction that I may have this testimony
again s t them ; that I may kno w all their proceed
ing s and that delivering the she ep to them I may
whether they will act as I
s e e w hat they will do ;
have commanded them o r not
1 00 Of thi s however they shall b e i g norant
neither s halt thou make any explanation to them
neither s halt thou reprove them ; but there shall
be an account o f all the destruction do ne by them
i n their respective seasons
Then they began to
kill and destroy more than it was commanded
them
1 01 And they left the sheep in the power o f
lions s o that very many o f them were devoured and
s wallowed up by lions and tigers ; and wil d boars
preyed upon them
Tha t tower they burnt and
overthrew that house
1 02 Then I grieved extremely o n account of the
tower and because the house o f the sheep was over
thrown
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arrived went in ; and began building a l l which was
fallen d o wn o f that house
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1 1 2 But the wild boars hindered them although
they prevailed n o t
1 1 3 Again they began to build as before and
raised up that tower which w a s called a lofty
tower
1 1 4 And again they began to place before the
tower a table with every impure and unclean kind
o f bread upon it
1 1 5 Moreover also all the sheep were blind and
could not se e as were the shepherds l ikewise
1 1 6 Thus w ere they delivered up to the shep
herds for a great destruction who trod them under
foot and devoured them
1 1 7 Yet was their Lord silent until all the sheep
in the field were de s troyed The s hepherds and the
sheep were all mixed together ; b ut they did not
save them from the power o f the bea s ts
1 1 8 Then he w h o wrote the book ascended ex
h i b i t e d it and read it at the re s idence o f the Lord
o f the sheep
He petitioned him for the m and
pra y ed pointing o ut every act o f the s hepherds
and te s tifyi n g be fore him again s t th e m all Then
taking the book he deposited it with him and
departed
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CH A P LXXXIX
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A nd I observed during the time that thus
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thirty seven s hepherds were overlooking all of
whom fini s hed in their respective pe riods as the
fir s t O thers then received the m into their hands
that they might overlook them in their re s pective
period s every shepherd in h i s o w n period
2 Afterwar d s I s a w in the vi s ion that all the
birds o f heaven arrived ; eagle s the avest kites and
ravens The eagle instructed the m all
3 The y began to d evour the s heep to p e e k o ut
their eyes and to eat up their bodies
4 The s heep then cried o ut ; for their bodies were
devoured by the b irds
5 I al s o cr i ed o ut and groaned in my s l eep
against that s hepherd which overlooked the flock
6 And I looked while the sheep were eaten up
b y the dogs by the eagle s and by the kites They
neither left them t h e i r b o dy nor their skin n o r
their muscles until their bones alone remained
until their bone s fell upon the ground And the
sheep became dimini s hed
7 I observed likewise during the time that
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T h e n um e rs t h i rt y -fi v e a n d t w e n t y t h re e m a k e fi ft y e i g h t ; a n d
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fift y
completed in their respective periods
eight
periods
8 Then were small lambs born o f tho s e white
sheep ; who began to open their eyes and to s e e
crying o ut to the sheep
9 The s heep howe v er cried not o ut to them
neither did they hear what they uttered to them ;
but were deaf blind and obdurate in the greatest
degrees
1 0 I sa w in the vision that ravens flew down
upon those lambs ;
1 1 That the y seized o n e of them
and that tear
ing the sheep in pieces they devoured them
1 2 I s a w also that horns grew upon those lambs ;
and that the ravens lighted down upon their
horns
1 3 I s a w t o o that a large horn sprouted o ut o n
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an animal among the sheep and that their eyes
were Opened
1 4 He looked at them
Their eyes were wide
ope n and he cried o ut to them
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1 5 Then the dabela s a w him ; all o f whom ran
to him
1 6 And besides this all the eagles the avest
the ravens and the kite s were still carrying o ff the
s heep flying down upon them and devouring them
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twel v e sh epherds wrought ; and pointed out before
the Lord o f the sheep that they destroyed more
than those who preceded them
2 6 I s a w also that the Lord o f the sheep came
to them and t aking in his hand the sceptre of his
wrath seized the earth which became rent asunder ;
while all the beast s and birds o f heaven fell from
the s heep and sunk into the earth which closed
over them
2 7 I s a w too that a large s word was given to
the sheep who went forth against all the beasts o f
the field to s lay them
2 8 But all the beasts and birds o f heaven fled
away from before their face
2 9 And I s a w a throne erected in a delectable
land ;
3 0 Upon this s a t the Lord o f the sheep who
received all the sealed book s
3 1 Which were open before him
3 2 Then the Lord called the first seven white
one s and comma n ded them to bring before him
the fir s t of the firs t s tar s which preceded the stars
whose form partly resembled that o f horses ; the
first star which fell do w n first ; and they brought
them all before him
3 3 And he spoke to the man who w rote in his
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presence who was one o f the s even white ones say
ing Take those se v g nt u heph e rd s to whom I de
livered up the sheep and w ho receiving them killed
more o f them than I com m anded Behold I s a w
them all bound and all standing before him First
came o n the trial o f the s tar s which being judged
and found guilty went to the place of punishment
They thrust them into a p l a ce deep and full o f
flaming fire and full of pillars o f fire Then the
and being found
s e venty s hepherd s were j udged
guilty were thrust into the flaming abyss
3 4 A t that time likewise I perceived that o n e
abyss was thu s opened in the midst o f the earth
which w a s full o f fire
3 5 And to this were br
ought the blind sheep ;
which being judged and found guilty were all
thrust into that aby s s o f fire o n the earth and
burnt
3 6 Th e abys s was on the right of that house
3 7 A nd I saw the sheep burning and their bones
consuming
3 8 I stood beholding him immerge that ancient
hou s e w h i le they brought out its pillars ever y
plant in it and the ivory infolding it They brought
it o ut and deposited it in a place o n the right side
o f the earth
3 9 I also saw that the Lord o f the s heep pro
d uc e d a new house great and loftier tha n the
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form er which h e bounded by t h e former circula r
spot All its pillars were new and its ivory new
as well as more abundant than the former ancient
i v o ry which he had brought o ut
4 0 And while all the sheep which were left were
in the mid s t o f it all the beasts o f the earth and
the birds o f heaven fell down and w o 1 sh i pp e d
al l
them petitioning them and obeying them i n
everything
4 1 Then those three who were cl othed in white
and who holding me by my hand had before caused
me to ascend while the hand o f him w ho spoke held
m e ; raised m e up and placed m e in the midst o f
t h e sheep before the j u d gment took place
4 2 The sheep were all white w ith wool long and
pure Then all who had peri s hed and had been
de s troyed e v ery beast o f the field and every bird o f
heaven assembled in that house : while the Lord o f
the s heep rej oiced with great j oy becau s e all were
good and had come back again to his dwelling
4 3 A nd I s a w that they laid down the sword
w hich had been given to the sheep and returned it
to his house sealing it up in the presence of the
Lord
4 4 All the sheep would have been inclosed in
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and the eyes o f all were open gazing o n the good
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dream ; and therefore wept and was troubled
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And now my s o n Mathusala call to me all thy
brethren and assemble for me all the children o f
thy mother ; for a voice call s me and the spirit i s
poure d o ut upon me that I ma y sho w you ever y
thing which shall h appen to you for ever
2 Then Mathus a la went called to him all h i s
brethren and assembled his kindred
3 And conv e rsing with all his children in truth
4 En o ch said Hear my children every word o f
your father and listen in uprightness to the voice
for I would gain your attention
o f my mouth ;
while I address you My beloved be attached to
integrity and walk in it
5 Approach n o t integrity with a double heart ;
nor be as s ociated with double minded men : but
walk my children in righteou s ne s s which will
cond uct yo u in good paths ; and be truth your
compan i on
6 Fo r I kno w that Oppres s ion will exist and
prevail o n earth ; that o n earth great punishment
s hall in the end take place ; and t h at there s hall
be a consu m mation o f all iniquity which shall be
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cut o ff from its root and every fabric ra i se d by i t
shall pas s away Iniquity however s hall again be
renewed and consu m m ated o n earth Every a c t o f
crime and every act of oppre s s ion and impiety
shall be a second time embraced
7 When therefore iniquity s i n bla sphem y
tyrann y and every e v i l work shall increase and
impiet y and uncleanne s s al s o
w he n tran s gres s ion
increa s e the n upon them all shall great
s hall
puni shment be inflicted from heaven
8 The hol y Lord s hall go forth in wrath and
upon t h em all shall great punishment from heaven
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be i n fl i c t e d
9 The holy Lord shall go forth in wrath and
with puni s hment that he may execute judgment
upon earth
1 0 In those day s oppression shall be cut o fl from
i t s root s and ini quity with fraud shall be eradicated
peri shing fro m under heaven
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1 1 Every place o f strength shall be s urrendered
with its inha b itants ; w ith fire shall it be burnt
They shall be brought from every part o f the earth
and be ca s t i n to a j udgment o f fire They s hall
peri s h in wrath a n d by a j udgment overpo w ering
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Righteousness shall be raised up fro m
slu m ber ; and wisdom shall be raised up and con
ferred upon them
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1 3 Then shall the roots o f iniquity be cut o f
sinners perish by the s word ; and blasphemers be
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annihilated everywhere
1 4 Those who meditate Oppression and those
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who b l aspheme by the sword shall peri s h
1 5 A nd n o w my children I will describe and
point o ut to you the path o f righteousness and the
path o f oppre s sion
1 6 I will again point them o ut to you that y o u
may know what is to come
1 7 Here n o w my children and walk in the path
o f righteou s nes s but shun that o f oppression ; fo r
all who walk in the path Of iniquity shall perish
for ever
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t ra n s p o si t i o n
ut e l y n e c e s s a ry t o m a k e se n s e o f t h a t c h a p te r ; i n
t h e e n um e ra t i o n o f se v e n w e e k s , o r p e ri o d s , t h e
th e
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Co nce rn i n g
these things will I Speak and the se
thi ng s will I explain to you my children : I w h o
am Enoch In consequence o f that which has be e n
shown to me from my heavenly vi s ion and from the
voice of the holy angels have I acquired knowle dge ;
and from the tablet o f heaven have I acquired
unders tanding
4 Enoch then began to speak from a book and
said I have been born the seventh in the first
week while j udgment and righteousness wait wit h
patience
5 But after me in the second week great wick e d
ness shall arise and fraud shall spring forth
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6 In that week the end o f the first s hall tak e
place in which mankind shall be safe
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iniquity
7 But when the firs t i s completed
shall gro w up and he shall execute the decree upon
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sinner s
8 A fterwar d s
in the third week during i t s
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completion a man Of the p l ant of righteou s j udg
ment s hall be selected ; and after him the plant o f
righteou s nes s s hall come for ever
9 S ub s equently in the fourth week during i t s
completion the vi s ions o f the holy and the righteou s
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s h all b e seen the order o f generation after genera
tion sha l l ta k e p l a ce and an habitation shall be
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Th e n in the fifth we e k during
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its completion the hou s e o f glory and o f do m l n i o n
shall be erected for ever
1 0 After that in the sixth w eek all those who
are in it shall be darkened the hearts o f all o f them
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shall be forgetful o f wisdom and in it shall a man
ascend
1 1 And during its completion he shall burn the
house o f dominion with fire and all the race o f the
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elect root shall be di s persed
1 2 A fterward s in the s eventh week a perverse
generation shall ari s e abundant shall be its deed s
and all i t s deeds perver s e During its completion
the righteou s shall be selected from the everla s ting
plant of righteou s nes s ; and to them shall be given
the s evenfold doctrine of his whole creation
1 3 Afterward s there s hall be anothe r week the
eighth of righteousne s s to which shall be given a
sword to execute j udgment and j ustice upon all
oppressors
1 4 S inners shall be d e livered up into the hand s
o f the righteous w h o during its comple t ion s hall
acquire habitations by their righteou s ne s s and the
house o f the great King shall be esta b li s hed fo r
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celebrations for ever After this in the ninth week
shal l the judg m ent of righteousness be revealed to
the whole world
1 5 Ever y work o f the ungodly s hall disappear
from the whole earth ; the world shall be marked
for destruction ; a nd all men shall be o n the loo k out
fo r t h e path o f integrity
1 6 And after this o n the seventh day o f the
tenth week there shall be an everla s ting judg m ent
w hich shall be executed upon the Watchers ; and a
spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the
mi ds t of the angels
1 7 The former heaven shall depart and pass
away ; a new heaven shall appear ; and all the celes
tial powers shine with sevenfold splendo ur for ever
A fterwards likewise shall there be many weeks
which shall externally exist in goodness and in
righteo us ne s s
1 8 Neither shall s i n be named there for ever and
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for ever
1 9 Who is there o f all the chil d ren o f men
capable o fhearing the voice o f the Hol y O ne withou t
emo t ion ?
20 Who is there capable o fthinking his thoughts
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in the p at h s of death Ap proach them not that you
may n o t perish but covet
4 A nd choose for yourselves righteousness and
a good life
5 Walk in the paths o f peace that you may live
and be found worthy Retain my words in your
inmost thought s and obliterate them no t from your
hearts ; for I know that sinners coun s el men to
commit crime craftily They are not found in every
place nor does every counsel possess a little o f them
6 Woe to those who build up iniquity and
oppre s s ion and who lay the foundation o f fraud ;
for sud denly shall they be subverted and never
obtain peace
7 Woe to those who build up their houses with
crime ; for from their very foundations shall thei r
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houses be demolished and by the sword s hall they
t he m s e l v e s fall
Those too who acquire gold and
silver s hall j u s tly and suddenly peri s h
o e to you
who are rich fo r in y our riche s have you tru s t e d ;
but from your riche s you shall be removed becau s e
you have not re m embered the Most High in the
days o f your prosperity : [ you shall be remove d
becau s e you have not remembered the Most High in
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CHAP XCI V
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You have committed bla s phemy and iniquit y
and are destined to the day o f the e ffus ion of blood
to the da y o f darkness and to the day of the great
j udgment
9 Thi s I declare and point o ut to you that he
who created y ou will destro y you
1 0 When y o u fall he w ill not show you mercy ;
but your Creator will rej oice i n your destruction
1 1 Let those then who shall be righteous among
o u in those days detest sinners and the ungodly
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that my eyes were clouds o f water that I
m ight weep over you and pour forth m y tear s like
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rain and re s t from the s orrow o f m y heart
2 Who h a s permitted y o u to hate and to trans
gre ss
Judgm ent shall overtake you ye s inners
3 The righteous shall not fear the wicked ;
becau s e God will a gain bring them i nto your power
that you ma y ave n ge yourselves o f them according
to yo ur plea s ure
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o u who shall be s o bo und by exe
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o rations
that you cannot be relea s ed fro m them ;
the remed y being far removed from you o n account
o f your sins
o e to you who recompen s e your
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eighbour with evil ; for y o u shall be recompensed
according to your works
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o e t o you ye fa l se witnesses you who a g ra
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tho s e who co m m i t iniquity ; and their yoke shall
prevail over yo u
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Wait in hope ye righteous ; for suddenly shall
sinners peri s h from before you and you shall e x e r
ci s e dominion over them according to your will
2 In the day o f the su fferings o f s inners your
O ffs pring shall be elevated and lifted up like eagles
Your nest shall be more exalted than that o f the
avest you shall ascend and enter into the cavities
and into the clefts o f the rocks for
o f the earth
ever like conies from the sight o f the ungodly
3 Who s hall groan over y o u and weep like
sirens
4 Y o u shall n o t fear those who trouble y o u for
restoration s hall be yours ; a splendid light shall
shine around you and the voice o f tranquillity shall
be heard from heaven
sinners ; fo r
o e to you
your wealth makes you resemble saints but your
hearts reproach you k no w i ng that yo u are sinner s
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j udgment when y o u shall hear the words o f the
pray er of the righteous ?
3 Y o u are not like them who in this re s pect
witness agains t you ; y o u are a s sociates of sinners
4 In those days shall the prayers o f the righteous
come up before the Lord When the day of y our
j udgment shall arrive ; and every circum s tance o f
your iniquity be related before the great and the
holy O ne ;
5 Your faces shall be covered with shame ; while
every deed strengthened by crime shall be rej ected
who in the midst o f
o e unto y o u s i nner s
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t h e s e a a n d o n dry land are those against whom an
o e to you who s quander silver
evil record exists
and gold not obtained in righteou s ne s s and sa y
We are rich pos s ess wealth and have acquired
everything which we can de s ire
7 Now then will we do whatsoever we are dis
posed t o do ; fo r we have am a s sed silver o ur barns
are full and the husbandmen Of our families are
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like overflowing water
8 Like water shall your falsehood pass away ;
for your wealth will n o t be permanent but shall
suddenly a s cend fro m you because you have
obtained it all iniq uitously ; to extreme m a l e d i c
tion shall y o u be delivered up
9 And now I swear to you ye crafty as well as
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simple ones that y o u often contemplating the
earth you w ho a re men clothe y our s elve s more
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elegantly than married women and both together
more s o than u n married ones everywhere a rr a y i ng
o urse l v e s in maj esty in magnificence in authorit y
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and in s ilver but gold purple honour and wealth
like water flow away
1 0 Erudition therefore and wisdom are not theirs
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Thus s hall t h e y perish to g ether with their riches
with all their glory and with their honours ;
1 1 While with di s grace with slaughter and in
extre m e penury s hall their spirits be thrust into a
furnace of fire
1 2 I have sworn to you ye s i n ner s that neither
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mountai n nor hil l h a s been o r s hall b e subs ervient
to woman
1 3 Neither in this way has crime been sent down
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to us U pon earth but men of their o w n head s have
invented it ; and greatly shall tho s e who give it
e fficiency be execrated
1 4 Barrenne s s shall n o t be p rev i o us l y inflicted o n
woman ; but o n account of the work o f her hands
shall s h e die childless
1 5 I have s w orn to you ye sinners by the holy
and the Great O ne th a t all your evil deeds are
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disclosed in the heavens ; and that none of your
oppressive act s are concealed and s ecret
1 6 Think not in your minds neither say in y our
hearts that ever y crime is not manife s ted and s een
In heaven it i s daily written down before the Mo s t
High Henceforwards shall it be manife s ted ; for
every act of Oppre s s ion which you commit shall be
d ail y recorded until the period of your condemnation
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ye simple one s for y o u s hall
o e to you
peri s h in your s implicity To the wise you will
and that which is good yo u s hall not
n o t li s ten
1
obtain
1 8 Now therefore know t hat you are destined to
the day o f destruction ; nor h Op e that s inners shall
2
live but in proce s s o f time you shall die
for y o u
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are not marked for redemption
1 9 But are destined to the day o f the great
j udgm e nt to the day o f distress and the extreme
ign o miny o f your souls
2 0 Woe to you ye obdurate in heart who commit
V
crime and feed on blood V h e n ce i s i t tha t you
feed o n good things drink and are satiated ? Is it
not becau s e o ur Lord the Most High has abundantly
s upplied every good thing upon earth ? To you
there s hall not be peace
o e to y ou who love the deeds o f iniquity
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in testimony before the angel s that they m ight
record the sins o f sinners in the presence o f the
Most High
5 In those days the nations shall he overthrown ;
but the familie s of the nations shall rise again i n the
d a y o f perdition
6 In those days they who become pregnant shall
go forth carry o ff their c h ildren and forsake them
Their o ffs pring s h all s lip from them and while
suckling them shall they forsake them ; the y shall
and never instruct thei r
n ever return to them
beloved
7 Again I swear to y o u ye sinners that crime
has been prepared for the day o f blood which never
cea s es
8 They shall worship stones and engrave golde n
silver and wooden images
The y s hall worship
impure s pirit s demons and every ido l in temples ;
1
but no help shall be obtained for them
Their
h earts shall become impious through their folly
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and their eyes be blinded with mental superstition
In their vi s ionar y dreams shall they be impious and
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superstitious l y ing in all their actions and wor
shipping a stone Altogether s hall they perish
9 But in those days blessed shall they be to
whom the word of wisdom is delivered ; who point
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and pursue the path o f the Most High ; who
walk i n the way o f righteousness and who act n o t
imp i ou s l y with the i m piou s
1 0 They shall be s aved
1 1 Woe to y o u who expand the crime o f your
neighbour ; for in hell s hall y ou be s lain
Woe to you who lay the foundation o f s i n and
deceit and who are bitter o n earth ; fo r o n it shall
you be con s umed
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o e to you who build your houses by the
labour of other s e v ery part of which i s constructed
1
with brick and with the stone o f crime ; I tell yo u
that yo u s hall not obtain peace
1 4 Woe to you who despise the extent o f the
everlas ting inheritance o f your fathers while your
souls follo w after idols ; for to y o u there shall be no
tranq uill i ty
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o e to them who commit iniquity and give
aid to b l a s phemy who slay their neighbour until
the day o f the great j u dgment ; for your glory shall
fall malevolence shall He put i nto your heart s and
the s pirit o f h i s wrath s hall stir y o u up that every
o n e o f you may perish b y the s word
1 6 Then s hall all the ri ghteous and the holy
remember your crimes
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ENOC H
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CH A P
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In those days shall fathers be struck down
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with their children in the presence o f each other ;
and brethren with their brethren s hall fall dead
until a river shall fl o w from their blood
2 Fo r a man s h all not re s train his hand from h i s
children nor from his children s children ; his mercy
2
will be to kill them
3 Nor shall the sinner restrain his hand from his
h onoured brother
From the dawn o f day to the
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setting sun shall the slaughter continue The hor s e
shall wade up to h i s brea s t and the chariot shall
4
sink to its axl e in the blood o f sinners
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In those days the angels shall descend into
place s of concealment and gather together in o n e
s pot all who have as s isted in crime
2 In that day shall the Most High ri s e up to
execute the great j udgment U pon all s inners and
to commit the guardianship of all the righteous and
holy to the holy angel s that they may protect the m
as the apple o f an eye until every evil and every
crime h e annihilated
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ENOCH
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that
being wi t hholden it may descend upon
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gold and silver But when the frost sno w cold
every snowy wind and every su ffering belonging to
them fall upon you in those days you will be
utterly incapable o f standing before them
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Attentively consider heaven all ye progeny
and all ye works o f the Most High
o f heaven
fear him nor condu c t yourselves criminally before
him
2 If He shut up the windows of heaven restrain
ing the rain and d e w that it may not descend upon
earth o n your acco unt what will you do ?
3 A nd if He send his wrath upon you and upon
all your deed s you are not they who can supplicate
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him ; you who utter against his righteo us ness
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language proud a nd powerful
To you there shall
b e no peace
3
4 Do you not see the commanders
o f ships
h o w their vessels are tos s ed abo ut by the waves
torn to pieces by the winds and exposed to the
greatest peril ?
5 That they therefore fear because their whole
property is em b arked wit h them o n t h e ocean and
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CHAP
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CI I
167
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1
that they forbode evil in their hearts becau s e it
may s wallow them up and the y ma y perish in it
6 I s not the whole se a all i t s waters and all its
commotion the work o f him the Most High ; o f
him who has s ealed up all its exertions and girded
it o n every s ide with s and ?
7 I s i t n o t at his rebuke dried up and a l armed ;
while all i t s fish with everything co n ta i ne d in it
die ? And will not you y e s inners who are o n
earth fear h i m ? Is not He the maker o f h e ave n
and earth and of all things which are in them ?
8 A nd who has given erudition and wi s dom to
all that move p rog re ssi v e upon the earth and o v er
the s e a ?
9 Are not the commander s o f s hip s terrified at
the ocean ? A nd shall not sinner s be terrified at
the Mo s t High ?
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CHAP CII
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2
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In those days when He shall ca st the calamity
whither will you fly and where
o f fire upon you
will you be safe
2 And when He send s forth his word again s t
you are you not Spared and terrified ?
3 A ll the luminarie s are agitated with great
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fear ; and all the earth is spared while it trembles
and suffers anxiety
4 All the angels fulfil the comma nd s re ce i v e d by
them and are de s irous of being concealed from the
presence o f the great Glory ; while the children o f
the earth are a l arm ed and troubled
5 But you ye sinners are for ever accursed ; to
you there shall be no peace
6 Fear not y e s ouls o f the righteou s ; but wait
w ith patient hope for the day o f your d eath in
righteousne s s Grieve not because your soul s de
scend in great trouble with groaning lamentation
and sorrow to the receptacle of the dead In your
lifetime your bodies have not received a recompense
in proportion to your goodne s s but i n the period
existence have sinners existed ; in the
o f your
period o f execration and o f puni s hmen t
7 And when you die s inners sa y concerning
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you As we die the righteou s die What profit
have they i n their works ? Behold like us they
expire in sorrow and in darkness What advantage
have they over us ? Henceforward a re we equal
What will be within their gra sp and what before
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their eyes for ever ? For behold they are dead ;
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and never will they again perceive the light
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ye sinners Y o u h ave been s atiated
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yo ur fl e s h h a s n o t fo un d a cco rd i n g t o yo ur g o o d n e s s
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h a t w i l l th e y o t a i n , a n d w h a t e h o l d
h e n c efo rw a rd for
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and their remembrance shall be before the face o f
the mighty O ne fro m generation to generation
No r shall they now fear disgrace
4 Woe to yo u sinners when y o u die in your
sins ; and they who are like you s a y respecting
o u Blessed are the s e sinners
They
have
lived
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a n d now they die in happi
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ness and in wealth Distre s s and s l aughter they
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knew not while alive ; in honour they die ; nor
ever in their lifetime did j udgment overtake them
5 B ut has i t not been shown to them that w h e n
to the recepta cle of the dead t heir souls shall be
made to descend their evil deeds shall b ecome their
greate s t torment ? Into darkness into the snare
and into th e flame w hich shall bur n to the great
j udgment shall their Spirits enter ; and the great
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j udgment Shall take effect for ever and for ever
6 Woe to yo u ; for to you there Shall be no peace
Neither can y o u s a y to the righteous and to the
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good who are a live
In the days of o ur trouble
have we been a ffl icted ; every sp e ci e s of trouble have
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we see n and many evil things have su ffered
7 O ur spirit s h ave been consumed les s ened and
dimini s he d
8 We have perished ; nor has there been a possi
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help fo r us in word o r in deed : we have
found none but have been tormented and de
stroyed
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9 We have not expected to live day after day
1 0 We hoped indeed to have been the head ;
We have been
1 1 But we have become the tail
a fflicted when we have exe rted ourselves ; but we
2
have been devoured by sinners and the ungodly ;
t heir y oke has been heavy upon us
1 2 Tho s e have exercised dominion over us who
detest and who g o ad us ; and to those who hat e us
have we humbled o ur neck ; but they have Shown
no compas s ion towards uS
1 3 We have been desirous o f escaping from
them that we might fly away and be at rest ; but
we have found no place t o which we could fly and
be secure from them
e have sough t an a s ylu m
with pri n ces in o ur distre s s a n d have cried out to
those who were devouring us ; but o ur cry h a s not
been regarded nor have t h ey been dispo s ed to hea i
b i l i ty
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But rather t o assist those w h o plunder and
devour us ; those who dimini s h us and hide thei r
Oppre s s ion ; who remove not their y oke from us
but devour enervate and slay us ; who conceal o ur
slaughter nor remember that they have lifted up
their hand s against us
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fo o d fo r si nne rs
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ENGCH
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CHAP CIV
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1
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I swear to you ye righteous that in heaven
the angel s record y our goodness before the glory o f
the mighty O ne
2 Wait with patient hope for formerl y yo u have
been disgraced with evil and wi t h a ffl iction ; but
now Shall you shine like the lu m inaries o f heaven
You shall be seen and the gate s of heaven shall be
opened to you Your cries have cried fo r j udg
m ent ; and it has appeared to y o u : fo r an account
your s u fferings Shall be required from the
o f all
princes and from every o n e who has assisted your
plunderers
3 Wait with patient hope ; n o r relinquish your
confidence for great joy shall be your s like that o f
Conduct yours elves as yo u
t h e angels in heaven
may s till you Shall n o t be concealed in the day o f
the great j udgment Y o u shall not be found like
Sinners and eternal conde m nation Shall be far from
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o u s o long as the world e x i s t s
y
4 A nd now fear not ye righteous when you se e
2
sinners flouri s hing a n d pro s perous in their way s
5 Be not as s ociates with them ; but keep your
s el v es a t a distance from their oppression ; be y o u
as sociated w ith the host o f heaven Y o u y e Sinners
All
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s t ro ng a nd w o rth y
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CH AP CIV
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those days saith the Lord they shall call
to the children o f the earth and m ake them li s ten
to their wisdom
S how them tha t you are t h eir
leaders ;
2 And that renumeration sha l l ta k e p l a ce over
the whole earth ; for I and my S on will for ever
hold communion with them in the paths Of upright
2
nes s while they are still alive
Peace Shall be
yours Rej oice children o f integrity in the truth
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After a time my s o n Mathusala too k a wife
for h i s so n Lamech
2 S h e became pregnant by him and brought
forth a child the flesh o f which was as white as snow
and red as a rose ; the hair o f whose head was
and long ; and who s e eyes were
w hite like wool
beautiful
hen he Opened them he illuminated
all the hou s e like the sun ; th e whole house
abounded with light
3 And when he was taken from the hand o f the
midwife opening also his mouth he Spoke to the
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CHAP CV
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175
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L ord o f righteousnes s
Then Lamech his father
was afraid of him ; and fl y ing away came to h i s
I have begotten a
o w n father Mathu s ala a n d Sai d
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unlike to o the r chi l d re n
He is no t human ;
son
but resembling the offspring o f the angels of heaven
is of a di fferent nature fro m o urs being altogethe r
unlike to us
4 Hi s eyes are b ri g ht as the rays of the sun ; h i s
countenance glorious and he looks not as if he b e
longed to me b ut to the angel s
5 I am afraid lest something miraculous Should
take place o n earth i n his days
6 An d now my father l e t me entreat and reques t
you to go to o ur progenitor Enoch and to learn
fro m him the truth ; for his r e sidence is with the
angels
7 When Mathusala heard the words of h i s so n
he came to me at the extremi ties o f the earth ; for
he h a d been informed that I was there : and he
cried o ut
8 I heard his voice and went to him saying
Behold I am he re my s o n ; Since thou art come to
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He answered and said O n account o f a great
event have I come to thee ; and on account o f a
sight di fficult to be co mp reh e nde d have I approached
thee
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ENOCH
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And now my father hear me for to my so n
Lamech a child has been born who re s embles not
him ; and whose nature is not like the nature o f
man His colour is whiter than snow ; he is redder
than the rose ; the hair o f h i s head is whiter than
white wool ; his eye s are like the rays o f the s un ;
and when he opened them he illuminated the whole
house
1 1 When also he w a s taken from the hand o f
the midwife he Opened his mouth an d blessed the
Lord of heaven
1 2 Hi s father Lamech feared and fled to m e
believing not that t he chi l d belonged to him but
that he re s embled the angel s o f h eaven A nd
behold I am come to thee that thou mightest point
o ut to me the t ruth
The n I Enoc h an s wered and said The Lord
will e ffect a new thing upon the earth This have
I explained and seen in a vi s ion I have Shown
thee that i n the generations o f Jared m y fath e r
tho s e who were from heaven di s regarded the word
o f the Lord
Behold they committed crimes ; laid
a s ide their cla s s and intermingled with women
With them al s o they tran s gressed ; married with
them and begot children
1 4 A great destruction therefore Shall come upon
all the earth ; a deluge a great destruction Shall
take place in o ne year
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Enoch w h o had shown him every secret thing he
returned with un der s tandi n g and called the name
o f t hat child Noah
becau
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he
was
to
console
the
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ea rth o n account of all i t s de s truction
2 1 Another book which Enoch wrote for h i s s o n
Mathusala a n d for those who Should come after him
2
and preserve their purity of conduct in the latter
day s Y o u who have laboured Shall wait in those
d ay s until the evil doers be consumed and the
power o f the guilty be a nnihilated Wait until s i n
pass away ; for t heir nam e s shall be blott e d o ut o f
t h e h o l y books ; their seed Shall be destroyed and
t heir spirit s Slain
They shall cr y o ut and lament
in the invi s ible waste and in the bottomless fire
3
s hall they burn
There I perceived as it were a
cloud which could not be seen through ; for from
the depth o f it I was unable to look upwards I
beheld al s o a fl a me o f fire blazing brigh t ly and as
it were glittering mountains whirled a round and
agitated from s ide to Side
2 2 Then I inquired o f o n e o f the ho l y angel s
who was with me and said What is this Splendid
For
it
is
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heaven
but
a
flame
o f fire
o b e ct ?
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and i n i t the re i s the clamour o f
a lone which blazes
exclamation of woe and o f great s uffering
2 3 He said There into that place which thou
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beholdest s hall be thru s t the spirits o f Sinners and
bla s phemer s ; o f those who Shall do evil and who
Shall pervert all which God h a s spoken by the
mouth o f the prophet s all which they ought to do
For re s pecting these thing s there Shall be writings
and impre s s ion s above in heaven that the angels
may read them and know what shall happen both
to sinners and to the Spirits of the humble ; to those
who have s u ffered in their bodies but have been
rewarded by God ; who have been injuriou s ly treated
by wicked men ; who have loved God ; who have
been attached neither to gold n o r silver nor t o any
good thing in the world but have given their bodie s
to torment ;
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2 4 To thos e who from the period o f their birth
have not been covetou s of earthly rich es ; but have
regarded them sel v e s as a breath pa s sing away
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2 5 S uch h a s been th e ir conduct ;
and much has
the Lord tried them ; and their Spirit s have been
found p ure that they might ble s s his name A ll
their ble ss ings have I relat e d in a book ; and He h a s
rewarded them ; for they have been found to love
heaven with an everla s ting aspiration Go d ha s
sa i d
While they have been trodden down by
wick e d men they have heard from th e m revi l ings
and blas phemie s and have been ignominiou s ly
treated while they were bles s i ng me A nd n o w will
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I call the Spirits o f the good from the generation o f
light and will change tho s e who have been born
in darkness ; who have not in their bodie s been
recompensed with glory as their fai th may have
merited
2 6 I will bring them into the Splendid light o f
those who love my holy n ame : and I will place
each o f them o n a throne o f glory o f glory p e cul i a rl y
his o w n and t hey Shall be at rest during un n um
bered periods Righteous is the j udgment Of God ;
2 7 Fo r to the faithful shall he give faith in the
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h a bitations o f uprightness
They Shall see those
who having been born in darkness unto darkne s s
Shall be ca s t ; while the righteous Shall be at rest
S inners Shall cry o ut beholding them while they
exis t in splendour and proceed for w ards to the days
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Here ends the vision o f Enoch the prophet May
the benediction o f his prayer and the gift of
his appointed period be wi t h his beloved
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