"13. _And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth_, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. "14. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and _every mountain and island were moved out of their places_. "15. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman and every freeman, _hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains_; "16. And said to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb 17. _For the great day of his wrath is come_, and who shall be able to stand?" Here we seem to have the story of Job over again, in this prefiguration of the future. The Ethiopian copy of the apocryphal book of Enoch contains a poem, which is prefixed to the body of that work, and which the learned author of "Nimrod" supposes to be authentic. It certainly dates from a vast antiquity. It is as follows: "Enoch, a righteous man, who was with God, answered and spoke while his eyes were open, and while _he saw a holy vision in the heavens_. . . . "Upon this account I spoke, and conversed with him who will _go forth from his habitation_, the holy and mighty One, the God of the world. "Who will hereafter tread upon the mountain Sinai, and _appear with his hosts_, and he manifested in the strength of his power from heaven. {p. 427} "All shall be afraid, and the watchers be terrified. Great fear and trembling shall seize even to the ends of the earth. "The lofty mountains shall be troubled, and the exalted hills depressed, _melting like honeycomb in the flame_. "The earth shall be _immerged_, and _all things_ which are in it _perish_. . . . "He shall preserve the elect, and toward them exercise clemency. . . . The whole earth is full of water." This is either history or prophecy. In the Second Epistle General of Peter, (chap. iii,) we have some allusions to the past, and some prophecies based upon the past, which are very curious: Verse 5. "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water." That is to say, the earth was, as in Ovid and Ragnarok, and the legends generally, an island, "standing out of the water and in the water." Verse 6. "Whereby _the world that then was_, being overflowed with water, perished." This seems to refer to the island Atlantis, "overflowed with water," and destroyed, as told by Plato; thereby forming a very distinct connection between the Island of Poseidon and the Deluge of Noah. We read on: Verse 7. "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, _reserved unto fire_ against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."