The Parables

1 Enoch 53

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 Valley of Judgement: the Angels of Punishment: the Communities of the Elect One.

¹There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.

2And their hands commit lawless deeds,And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,And they shall perish for ever and ever.

³For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all the instruments of Satan. ⁴And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: ‘For whom are they preparing these instruments?’ ⁵And he said unto me: ‘They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may thereby be destroyed.

⁶And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.

7And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his righteousness,But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.’