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Ancient wagons move on sweeping clouds from east and west as a gathered multitude watches beneath the heavenly host.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 57

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 57 — Enoch sees a host of wagons borne upon the winds while a great movement of people gathers in wonder.

About this illustration

The brief vision is treated literally as ancient transport carried by wind, without making the wagons modern, militarized, or part of chapter 56’s armies.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 57:1–3
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south.
  2. 2And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day.
  3. 3And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.

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