1 Enoch 106:20

Pseudepigrapha

19 Now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. 20 And after that, there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has shown me and informed me, and I have read them in the heavenly tablets.

Matthew 24:12

New Testament

10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, 12 and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

 Notes and References

"... The mention of unprecedented evil preserves the sense of the fragmentary Aramaic text, while at the end the Aramaic may have contained an additional phrase “in [their] days”. Specifically, the unmatched extent of eschatological evil is shared in the early Enoch tradition with 91:7a and 93:2. This motif is reflected in the Old Greek version of Daniel 12:4, “until many will rage and the earth will be full of evil”) and may have influenced 4 Ezra 5:2, 10 and Matthew 24:12 ..."

Stuckenbruck, Loren T. 1 Enoch 91-108 (p. 681) De Gruyter, 2007

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