Fish the Right

The Book of Enoch

1 Enoch 27

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 Purpose of the Accursed Valley.

1Then said I: ‘For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley ⟦between?⟧’ 2⟦Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: ‘This⟧ valley is for those who are accursed for ever: here shall all ⌜the accursed⌝ be gathered together who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things.

Ethiopic

Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be their place of judgement. 3In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King.

Greek

Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be the place of their habitation. 3In the last times, in the days of the true judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the godly bless the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King.

4In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them (their lot).’ 5Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His ⌜glory⌝ and lauded Him gloriously.

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.