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In 1 Enoch an angel urges Noah to hide because judgment is about to fall, a moment similar to Revelation when people hide in caves as judgment begins. Genesis never uses this hiding theme, which hints that Revelation draws on 1 Enoch.
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1 Enoch 10:2
Pseudepigrapha
1 Then the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, saying to him: 2 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name to hide himself and reveal to him that the end is near: the entire earth will be destroyed, a deluge is about to cover the whole earth and will wipe out everything on it. 3 And now instruct him so that he may escape and his descendants may be preserved for all future generations.'
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Revelation 6:15
New Testament
14 The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
Date: 92-96 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... 1 Enoch 10:2 ... The three lines in this strophe and the first one in the next strophe are introduced by a series of parallel and generally synonymous verbs in the imperative. Through these verbs, Sariel’s function is depicted as that of a prophet or an eschatological teacher. He warns Noah to take cover in the face of theophany and judgment. Compare Genesis 3:8, 10; Isaiah 26:20-21; Zephaniah 2:3; Revelation 6:15-16; 1 Enoch 102:1-3. This fits with the tenor of the whole chapter, where deluge and final judgment parallel and coalesce with one another. That “the end is coming” reflects the language of Genesis 6:13. Nonetheless, these terms may also have eschatological connotations here ..."
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108
(p. 220) Fortress Press, 2001
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