1 Enoch
Anonymous Enochic writers
Chapter 45
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.
XLV. 1. And this is the Second Parable concerning those who deny the name of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
2. And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
3. On that day Mine Elect, One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall try their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine elect ones,
And those who have called upon My glorious name: