1 Enoch

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Chapter 51

1 In those days, the earth will return what has been entrusted to it, and Sheol will also return what it has received, and the underworld will return what it owes.⁠ 2 He will choose the righteous and holy from among them: for the day is near when they shall be saved.⁠ 3 In those days, the Elect One shall sit on My throne, and his mouth shall reveal all the secrets of wisdom and counsel: for the Lord of Spirits has granted these to him and has honored him. 4 In those days, the mountains will leap like rams, and the hills will skip like lambs full of milk, and the faces of all the angels in heaven will shine with joy. 5 For in those days, the Elect One shall rise,⁠ and the earth shall rejoice, and the righteous shall live upon it, and the chosen shall walk there.

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Compare 1 Enoch 51:2 and Luke 21:28

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses · New Testament

Summary

1 Enoch describes a future when the righteous are resurrected, salvation is near, and the messiah sits on the throne. Luke uses similar language of redemption “drawing near,” connected to Jesus arriving to judge, possibly influenced by 1 Enoch.

Passages

1 Enoch 51:2

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses

1 In those days, the earth will return what has been entrusted to it, and Sheol will also return what it has received, and the underworld will return what it owes. 2 He will choose the righteous and holy from among them: for the day is near when they shall be saved. 3 In those days, the Elect One shall sit on My throne, and his mouth shall reveal all the secrets of wisdom and counsel: for the Lord of Spirits has granted these to him and has honored him. 4 In those days, the mountains will leap like rams, and the hills will skip like lambs full of milk, and the faces of all the angels in heaven will shine with joy.

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

Luke 21:28

New Testament

25 “And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves. 26 People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But when these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near.” 29 Then he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.

75–85 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in Luke

References

"... Walck clarifies that Matthew’s allusions to the “throne of his glory” (Matthew 19:28; 25:31) and the “Parables of the weeds and last Judgment” (13:36-43; 25:31-46) reveal the most explicit connections between Matthew and the Parables of Enoch. Beyond Matthew’s usage, there is Luke’s use of the term “Chosen one” (Luke 9:35; 23:35), especially since the title is distinct from the Marcan parallel. Luke’s reference to redemption drawing near in 21:28 is close to the idea of salvation drawing near in 1 Enoch 51:2 and 62:13-16. Even in Mark there is a potential allusion in the discussion of Jesus’ betrayer and the remark that it would be better for him not to have been born (14:21), an idea much like the one found in 1 Enoch 38:2. so allusions to the Parables of Enoch may well be present in all the Synoptics. There is not so much evidence of influence in the earthly or suffering sayings ..."

Lee Martin McDonald, “The Parables of Enoch in Early Christianity,” in Parables of Enoch: A Paradigm Shift, ed. James H. Charlesworth and Darrell L. Bock, Jewish and Christian Texts in Context and Related Studies 11 (London: T&T Clark, 2013), 369.

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Compare 1 Enoch 51:2 and Luke 21:28

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1 Enoch 51:2

Luke 21:28

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