Enoch Teaches His Sons
1 Oh my children, my beloved ones, listen to your father's warning, as much as is according to the Lord's will. 2 I have been allowed to come to you today, and to announce to you, not from my lips, but from the Lord's lips, all that is and was and all that is now, and all that will be until judgment-day. 3 For the Lord has let me come to you, so hear the words of my lips, of a man made big for you, but I am one who has seen the Lord's face, like iron made to glow from fire it sends out sparks and burns. 4 You now look at my eyes, the eyes of a man big with meaning for you, but I have seen the Lord's eyes, shining like the sun's rays and filling the eyes of man with awe. 5 You see now, my children, the right hand of a man that helps you, but I have seen the Lord's right hand filling heaven as he helped me. 6 You see the scope of my work like your own, but I have seen the Lord's limitless and perfect scope, which has no end. 7 You hear the words of my lips, as I heard the words of the Lord, like great thunder incessantly, with the hurling of clouds. 8 And now, my children, listen to the speeches of your earthly father, how frightening and overwhelming it is to come before the face of the ruler of the earth, how much more terrifying and overwhelming it is to come before the face of the ruler of heaven, the controller of the living and the dead, and of the heavenly troops. Who can endure that endless pain?
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Compare Daniel 10:6 and 2 Enoch 39:4
Hebrew Bible · Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
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Daniel 10:6
Hebrew Bible2 Enoch 39:4
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