1 Enoch

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Chapter 101

1 Observe the heavens, you children of heaven, and every work of the Most High, and fear Him and commit no evil in His presence. 2 If He closes the windows of heaven and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth because of you, what will you do then? 3 And if He directs His anger against you because of your deeds, can you plead with Him when you have spoken arrogantly against His righteousness?⁠ Thus, you will have no peace. 4 Do you not see the ship captains, how their ships are tossed by the waves, rocked by the winds, and put in danger? 5 Therefore, they fear because all their valuable possessions are aboard, and they worry that the sea will swallow them and they will perish in it. 6 Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most High? Has He not set limits to its actions and confined it throughout by the sand?⁠ 7 And at His reproof, it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and everything in it;⁠ yet you sinners on the earth do not fear Him. 8 Has He not made the heavens and the earth, and all that is within them?⁠ Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea? 9 Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners do not fear the Most High.⁠

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Compare 1 Enoch 101:3 and Daniel 7:8

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses · Hebrew Bible

Summary

1 Enoch 101 and Daniel 7 use arrogant speech to show defiance of divine order. In 1 Enoch this describes sinners, and in Daniel it describes the horn that opposes God. The similarity suggests that Daniel may follow a tradition based on 1 Enoch.

Passages

1 Enoch 101:3

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses

2 If He closes the windows of heaven and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth because of you, what will you do then? 3 And if He directs His anger against you because of your deeds, can you plead with Him when you have spoken arrogantly against His righteousness? Thus, you will have no peace. 4 Do you not see the ship captains, how their ships are tossed by the waves, rocked by the winds, and put in danger?

300 BCE – 100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Enoch

Daniel 7:8

Hebrew Bible

8 “As I was contemplating the horns, another horn—a small one—came up between them, and three of the former horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. This horn had eyes resembling human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant things. 9 “While I was watching, thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His attire was white like snow; the hair of his head was like lamb’s wool. His throne was ablaze with fire, and its wheels were all aflame.

200–101 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Daniel

References

"... The present text and verse 3 draw on and presuppose foregoing Enochic tradition where the activity describes those who are condemned. In particular, the expression “you say with your mouth great and hard things” is influenced by the Book of Watchers at 5:4 (compare also Daniel 7:8, 11, 20, 25 and Revelation 13:5–6 in which such speech becomes a defining feature of God’s arch-opponent). In this text, the sinners, in contrast to the obedient orderliness of nature (2:1–5:3), are accused as follows ..."

Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91–108 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2007), 476.

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Compare 1 Enoch 101:3 and Daniel 7:8

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1 Enoch 101:3

Daniel 7:8

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