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In 2 Enoch 22, Michael exchanges Enoch’s earthly clothes for garments of divine glory. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this heavenly change of clothing but gives Abraham the garment of Azazel, linking his new place in heaven to an angel’s loss.
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1000+ CE
2 Enoch 22:8
Secrets of Enoch
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
6 And the archistratege Michael lifted me up, and led me to before the Lord's face. And the Lord said to his servants tempting them: 'Let Enoch stand before my face into eternity,' 7 and the glorious ones bowed down to the Lord, and said: 'Let Enoch go according to Your word.' 8 And the Lord said to Michael: 'Go and take Enoch from out his earthly garments, and anoint him with my sweet ointment, and put him into the garments of My glory.' 9 And Michael did thus, as the Lord told him. He anointed me, and dressed me, and the appearance of that ointment is more than the great light, and his ointment is like sweet dew, and its smell mild, shining like the sun's ray, 10 and I looked at myself, and was like one of his glorious ones.
Apocalypse of Abraham 13:14
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
9 and through you every evil spirit of lies, and through you wrath and trials for the generations of ungodly men; 10 for God, the Eternal, Mighty One, has not permitted that the bodies of the righteous should be in your hand, in order that by this the life of the righteous and the destruction of the unclean may be assured. 11 Hear, friend, be gone with shame from me. For it has not been given to you to play the tempter in regard to all the righteous. 12 Depart from this man! 13 You cannot lead him astray, because he is an enemy to you, and of those who follow you and love what you will. 14 For, behold, the vesture which in heaven was formerly yours has been set aside for him, and the mortality which was his has been transferred to you."
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Notes and References
“... The “heavenly garments” are here referred to “which are now stored up on high in the seventh
heaven” according to Asc. Is. iv. 16. The idea, originally a realistic one, was gradually spiritualised, and
came to mean the spiritual bodies in which the righteous wil l be clothed in heaven; cf. 1 Enoch lxii. 15
f. (“garments of glory,” “garments of life”); cf. also 2 Enoch xxii. 8 f., where Michael is bidden by God to
“take from Enoch his earthly robe . . . and clothe him with the garment of my glory. ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 33) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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