Enoch watches stars arc across a dark mountain sky and transform into branching lightning while remaining in ordered ranks.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 44

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 44 — Enoch beholds stars transformed into lightning, yet unable to depart from their appointed form.

About this illustration

The single-verse vision is rendered literally but conservatively as an ordered stellar transformation, without importing the scales from chapter 43.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 44:1–1
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form. The Lot of the Apostates: the New Heaven and the New Earth.

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