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In 2 Enoch 8, Paradise provides fragrant trees, ripe fruit, and abundant food. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this abundance in the Garden of Eden seen from heaven, where food and rest belong to those who have lived righteously.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
2 Enoch 8:2
Secrets of Enoch
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 And those men took me from there, and led me up on to the third heaven, and placed me there; and I looked downwards, and saw the produce of these places, such as has never been known for goodness. 2 And I saw all the sweet-flowering trees and saw their fruits, which were sweet-smelling, and all the foods borne by them bubbling with fragrant exhalation. 3 And in the midst of the trees that of life, in that place on which the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise; and this tree is of ineffable goodness and fragrance, and adorned more than every existing thing; 4 and on all sides it is in form gold-looking and vermilion and fire-like and covers all, and it has produce from all fruits. Its root is in the garden at the earth's end.
Apocalypse of Abraham 21:6
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
4 I saw there the sea and its islands, and its monsters and its fishes, and Leviathan and his dominion, and his camping-ground, and his caves, and the world which lay upon him, and his movements, and the destructions of the world on his account. 5 I saw there streams and the rising of their waters, and their windings. 6 And I saw there the Garden of Eden and its fruits, the source of the stream issuing from it, and its trees and their bloom, and those who behaved righteously. And I saw in it their foods and blessedness. 7 And I saw there a great multitude — men and women and children [half of them on the right side of the picture] and half of them on the left side of the picture.
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Notes and References
“... In 2 Enoch viii. 2 the seer describes how
he saw in Paradise “all the trees of beautiful colours and their fruits ripe and fragrant, and all kinds of
food which they produced, springing up with delightful fragrance.” Note that P aradise is here located on
the earth, though the transcendental Paradise is meant: see E.A., p. 196. ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 43) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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