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XXXIX. The Abode of the Righteous and of the Elect One: the Praises of the Blessed

Date of account: Composite work, broadly c. 300 BCE to 100 BCE
Source: The book of Enoch
Reference: The book of Enoch · selected passage 24
Rights: public_domain
Language: Ge'ez preserved in complete form; translated from earlier Semitic and Greek textual traditions
Translation: R. H. Charles, with W. O. E. Oesterley
Record updated: 2026-08-24

Record summary

And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth

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And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. 8. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: ‘Who are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard and written down?’ 9. And he said to me: ‘This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’ 10.

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