Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
20. And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the
Lord of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and =the other= took the sealed
books and opened those books before the Lord of the sheep. 21. And the
Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded that
they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led
the way, =all the= stars whose privy members were like those of horses,
and they brought them all before Him. 22. And He said to that man who
wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said unto
him: “Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and
who taking them on their own authority slew more than I commanded them.”
23. And behold, they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before
Him. 24. And the judgement was held first over the stars, and they were
judged and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they
were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars
of fire. 25. And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty,
and they were cast into that fiery abyss. 26. And I saw at that time how
a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and
they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found
guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss
was to the right of that house. 27. And I saw those sheep burning †and
their bones burning†.
XC. 28-38. _The New Jerusalem, the Conversion of the surviving Gentiles,
the Resurrection of the Righteous, the Messiah._
28. And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and
carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the
house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off
and laid it in a place in the south of the land. 29. And I saw till the
Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that
first, and set it up in the place of the first which had been folded up:
all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than
those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the
sheep were within it.
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