1 Enoch 75:3

Pseudepigrapha

2 And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations. 3 For the signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven, in the heaven and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the heaven and be seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, i.e. the sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots of the heaven.

1 Peter 3:22

New Testament

18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit. 19 In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. 21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you—not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

 Notes and References

"... The idea of powers reminds one of references to celestial beings designated by words such as 'authorities' or 'powers' in various texts ... both terms can be found in the Pauline epistles (1 Cor 15:24; Eph 1:21; 3:10, 6:12; Col 1:16; 2:10, 15) ... Another passage of interest is 1 Peter 3:22, where it is said of Jesus Christ that he 'has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him' ..."

Nickelsburg, George W. E. A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 37-82 (p. 461) Fortress Press, 2012

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