Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
[11. For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear
the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His
thoughts? and who is there that can behold all the works of heaven? 12.
And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is
there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a
spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and
think them or do like them? 13. And who is there of all men that could
know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has
been shown the measure of all of them? 14. Or is there any one who could
discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon
what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where
all the luminaries rest?]
XCI. 12-17. _The Last Three Weeks._
12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of
righteousness,
And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be
executed on the oppressors,
And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.
13. And at its close they shall acquire houses through their
righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14_d._ And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.
14_a._ And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement
shall be revealed to the whole world,
_b._ And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the
earth,
_c._ And the world shall be written down for destruction.
15. And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.
16. And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,
And a new heaven shall appear,
And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.
17. And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.
XCIV. 1-5. _Admonitions to the Righteous._
XCIV. 1. And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and
walk therein;
For the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation,
But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and
vanish.
2. And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence
and of death be revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from them,
And shall not follow them.
3. And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor on the paths of death,
And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
4. But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect
life,
And walk in the paths of peace,
And ye shall live and prosper.
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