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An angel guides Enoch beneath ordered star paths while a vast balance holds clustered lights according to their names and stations.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 43

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 43 — Enoch sees the stars named, numbered, and weighed according to their appointed light and faithful courses.

About this illustration

The balance visualizes the text’s language of weighing and ordering the stars; lightning imagery belonging to chapter 44 is kept separate.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 43:1–4
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him.
  2. 2And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other.
  3. 3And I asked the angel who went with me who showed me what was hidden: ‘What are these?’
  4. 4And he said to me: ‘The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit. ‘their parable’): these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’

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