1 Enoch 54:6

Pseudepigrapha

5 And he said unto me: 'These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded. 6 And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.' 7 'And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and he will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth.

Matthew 13:41

New Testament

40 As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen! 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

 Notes and References

"... fomacem ardenteme ... Gehenna is described as a fiery furnace in Matthew 13:42, 52; 1 Enoch 54:6; Targum Neofiti Genesis 15:17; Genesis Rabbah 6:6 (referring to Malachi 3:19; Isaiah 31:9); compare also Acts of John 114. Furnaces appear as one form of infernal punishment among others in Vision of Ezra 48, 50, 51; Barlaam 30:281; and the Latin redactions of the Apocalypse of Paul ..."

Bauckham, Richard The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (p. 319) Brill, 1998

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