1 Enoch
Anonymous Enochic writers
Chapter 16
About this work
A composite collection of Jewish visions, journeys through the heavens, and teachings about judgment and the world to come, attributed to Enoch. Its component dates are disputed, and the work survives chiefly in Ethiopic with earlier Aramaic and Greek witnesses.
- Author
- Anonymous Enochic writers
- Date
- Component dates disputed; principally Second Temple period
- Genre
- Apocalypse
- Textual language
- Aramaic; Ethiopic and Greek transmission
- Attribution
- Enoch
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1917.
XVI. 1. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death ⌜of the giants⌝, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement—thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great ⌜judgement⌝ in which the age shall be consummated over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated.” 2. And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been 〚aforetime〛 in heaven, (say to them): 3. “You have been in heaven, but ⌜all⌝ the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.” 4. Say to them therefore: “You have no peace.”’