CIV. Assurances given to the Righteous: Admonitions to Sinners and the Falsifiers of the Words of Up
- Date of account
- Composite work, broadly c. 300 BCE to 100 BCE
- Source
- The book of Enoch
- Reference
- The book of Enoch · selected passage 66
- 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 saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not †look over†, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyAnd I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not †look over†, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro. 5. And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and said unto him: ‘What is this shining thing? for it is not a heaven, but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.’ 6. And he said unto me: ‘This place which thou seest—here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert every thing that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets—(even) the things that shall be. 7. For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: 8.
Historical context
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Modern context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyLattice can compare the passage's descriptive features with later reports, but resemblance does not turn a vision, angel, mythic creature or sacred narrative into a modern incident report.
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