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Enoch journeys past rivers of fire, a dark abyss, immense waters, and towering mountains at the edges of the world.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 17

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 17 — Angelic guides lead Enoch through places of fire, living waters, darkness, and the foundations of creation.

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This scene is a visual interpretation of the chapter in the public-domain R. H. Charles translation; visionary imagery is presented symbolically without claiming details beyond the text.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 17:1–8
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And they took ⌜and⌝ brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared as men.
  2. 2And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.
  3. 3And I saw the places of the luminaries ⌜and the treasuries of the stars⌝ and of the thunder, ⌜and⌝ in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, 〚and a fiery sword〛 and all the lightnings.
  4. 4And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun.
  5. 5And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west.
  6. 6I saw the great rivers and came to the great ⌜river and to the great⌝ darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks.
  7. 7I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.
  8. 8I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition