Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the
Lord of Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal
Lord.
5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage
of faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.
6. And there shall be a light that never =endeth=,
And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of
Spirits.
LIX. _The Lights and the Thunder._
[LIX. 1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and
of the lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ‘their judgement’):
and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits
willeth. 2. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it
resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused
me to see the =judgements= executed on the earth, whether they be for
well-being and blessing, or for a curse, according to the word of the
Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the secrets of the lights and
lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for
satisfying.]
LX. =Book of Noah—a Fragment.=
_Quaking of the Heaven: Behemoth and Leviathan: the Elements._
LX. 1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth
day of the month in the life of †Enoch†. In that Parable I saw how a
mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the
Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times
ten thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the Head of
Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous
stood around Him.
3. And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
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