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1 Enoch

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Chapter 105

1 In those days, the Lord commanded them to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show it to them; for you are their guides,⁠ and a recompense over the whole earth. 2 For I and My son will be united with them forever⁠ in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and you shall have peace:⁠ rejoice, you children of uprightness. Amen.

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Compare 1 Enoch 105:2 and 4 Ezra 14:9

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses

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Summary

1 Enoch closes as the speaker vows that he and his son will be joined with the righteous forever, a line debated as either Enoch with Methuselah or God with the Messiah. 4 Ezra similarly has Ezra taken up to remain with the son until the end of time.

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1 Enoch 105:2

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 In those days, the Lord commanded them to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show it to them; for you are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. 2 For I and My son will be united with them forever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and you shall have peace: rejoice, you children of uprightness. Amen.
300 BCE – 100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Enoch

4 Ezra 14:9

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses · 2 Esdras
7 Now I say to you: 8 Lay up in your heart the signs that I have shown, the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard; 9 for you will be taken away from men, and from now on you will live with my Son and with those who are like you, until the times have ended. 10 For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to grow old.
70–132 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 4 Ezra

References

"... g. The Messiah. 1 Enoch 105:2: “I and my son (= Messiah) will be united with them always on the ways of truth during their life. You will have peace; rejoice, children of the truth.” ‖ 4 Ezra 7:28 following: “For my son the Christ (filius meus Messiah), will be revealed with all who are with him and he will give to all who remain peace for 400 years. After these years my son, the Christ, will die along with all who have human breath.” (The textual tradition is not unified; other manuscripts have, instead of “filius meus Messiah,” just “Messiah meus” or “Messiah” or “Messiah dei.”) — 4 Ezra 14:9: “But you (Ezra) are to be removed from men and from now on you will dwell with my son (cum filio meo) and his companions until the times are up.” (These passages do not have in view a preexistent Messiah; see § John 1:1 A, A, n. c.) — Everywhere in these passages the expression “my son” in God’s mouth is a designation for the Messiah, synonymous with Christos or mashiach. ..."
Hermann L. Strack and Paul Billerbeck, A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash, Volume 3: Romans through Revelation (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2023), 86.

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