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Enoch stands between a bright rain-filled region and a dark thunderous land where lightning gathers over the mountains.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 59

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 59 — Enoch sees the secrets of lightning and thunder and the contrasting lights appointed for blessing and judgment.

About this illustration

A divided landscape visualizes the chapter’s two kinds of light and weather without introducing the named creatures of chapter 60.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 59:1–3
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ‘their judgement’): and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth.
  2. 2And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well-being and blessing, or for a curse, according to the word of the Lord of Spirits.
  3. 3And after that all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.] Quaking of the Heaven: Behemoth and Leviathan: the Elements.

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