Fish the Right

The Book of Enoch

1 Enoch 23

Outside the Bibles most churches use. Scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (and its sister church in Eritrea); not in Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Protestant Bibles. About 1 Enoch

R. H. Charles’s translation (1917).

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The Fire that deals with the Luminaries of Heaven.

1From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. 2And I saw a ⟦burning⟧ fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3And I asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’ 4Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me ⟦and said unto me⟧: ‘This course ⌜of fire⌝ ⟦which thou hast seen⟧ is the fire in the west which †persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.’

R. H. Charles, The Book of Enoch (Translations of Early Documents, Series I), with an introduction by W. O. E. Oesterley. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917. In the public domain in the United States.

Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #77935), checked against the Internet Archive’s scan of the same printing.