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In 1 Enoch, God promises that when he comes to judge, the righteous will receive protection, peace, and light. The Wisdom of Solomon echoes a similar tradition, describing the righteous as in God's hand and at peace though the foolish think them dead.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Enoch 1:8
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
7 The earth will be completely torn apart, and everything on it will perish, and there will be judgment upon all people. 8 But with the righteous, He will establish peace. He will protect the chosen, and mercy will be upon them. They will all belong to God, prosper, and be blessed. He will aid them, and light will shine for them, and He will make peace with them.
Date: 300 BCE – 100 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
Wisdom of Solomon 3:1
Deuterocanon
1 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them. 2 In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered a disaster, 3 and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace. 4 For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality. 5 Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself. 6 He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering. 7 In the time of their visitation they will shine. They will run back and forth like sparks among stubble.
Date: 50 BCE – 50 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... 1 Enoch 1:8 ... The cluster of terms in this verse is partly paralleled in Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9; and the whole of Wisdom of Solomon 3-4, with its alternation between blessing and curse in the context of a coming judgment, could reflect parts of 1 Enoch 1-5 ..."
George W. E. Nickelsburg, A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001), 148.
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