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The righteous walk together through a sunlit land of rivers and trees as the last storm shadows withdraw behind them.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 58

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 58 — The righteous inherit unending light, peace, and joy in the presence of the Lord of Spirits.

About this illustration

The chapter’s promise is expressed through communal life and enduring light, with no throne or judgment motifs borrowed from surrounding visions.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 58:1–6
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
  2. 2Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot.
  3. 3And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun, And the elect in the light of eternal life: The days of their life shall be unending, And the days of the holy without number.
  4. 4And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits: There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
  5. 5And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith: For it has become bright as the sun upon earth, And the darkness is past.
  6. 6And there shall be a light that never endeth, And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come, For the darkness shall first have been destroyed, [And the light established before the Lord of Spirits] And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.

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