The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) · 17 of 141 · tr. R.H. Charles
Chapter I
p. 31 BOOK OF ENOCH I-XXXVI I-V. Parable of Enoch on the Future Lot of the Wicked and the Righteous CHAPTER I. 1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect ⌈⌈ and ⌉⌉ righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked ⌈⌈ and godless ⌉⌉ are to be removed. 2. And he took up his parable and said--Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, ⌈ which ⌉ the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come. 3. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling, 4. And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai, ⌈ And appear from His camp ⌉ And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens. 5. And all shall be smitten with fear And the Watchers shall quake, And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth. 6. And the high mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low, And shall melt like wax before the flame p. 32 7. And the earth shall be ⌈ wholly ⌉ rent in sunder, And all that is upon the earth shall perish, And there shall be a judgement upon all (men). 8. But with the righteous He will make peace. And will protect the elect, And mercy shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to God, And they shall be prospered, And they shall ⌈ all ⌉ be blessed. ⌈ And He will help them all ⌉ , And light shall appear unto them, ⌈ And He will make peace with them ⌉ . 9. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈ His ⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy ⌈ all ⌉ the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works ⌈ of their ungodliness ⌉ which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners ⌈ have spoken ⌉ against Him.
Themes
◆Anthropomorphismtheology
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
The divine is described using human imagery such as treading upon the earth and dwelling in a camp.
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The text emphasizes God's active ordering of events to protect the elect and judge the wicked according to His will.
The 1 Enoch narrative in which a class of originally-good angelic beings (the Watchers) descends, mates with women, and teaches forbidden arts — the substrate that Gnostic archons inherits and inverts: archons are born malevolent, the Watchers fall through transgression.
The Watchers are explicitly mentioned as beings who shall quake before God, acknowledging their existence within the text's cosmology.
Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.
[auto] The passage centrally describes the final judgment where God executes verdicts upon all men, destroying the ungodly and protecting the righteous.