Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
4. And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised
me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not
been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the
quaking of the heaven. 5. And Michael said unto me: ‘Why art thou
disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His
mercy; and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who
dwell on the earth. 6. And when the day, and the power, and the
punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath
prepared for those who worship not the righteous =law=, and for those
who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in
vain—that day is prepared; for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an
inquisition.
5. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it
shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not
come in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the
children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place
according to His mercy and His patience.’
7. And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named
Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of
the waters. 8. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his
breast a waste wilderness named †Dûidâin†, on the east of the garden
where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up,
the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created.
9. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of
those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into
the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the
wilderness. 10. And he said to me: ‘Thou son of man, herein thou dost
seek to know what is hidden.’
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