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Apocrypha · Chapter 42 of 105

Book of Enoch 42

Ethiopic

I beheld another splendour, and the stars of heaven. I remarked that he called them all by their individual names, and that they heard. I saw that he weighed out in a righteous balance with their light, the extent of their places, and the day of their appearance and their conversion, splendour brought forth splendour, and their conversion was into the number of the angels and of the faithful.

2Then I enquired of the angel who went with me, and expounded to me secret things, what they were, he answered, The Lord of spirits has shewn thee a likeness of these, they are the names of the righteous who dwell on earth, and who believe on the name of the Lord of spirits for ever and ever.

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About Book of Enoch

The most influential apocryphal book there is: the fall of the Watcher angels, the giants, Enoch's journey through the heavens and the final judgement. Quoted in the New Testament by the letter of Jude and held canonical by the Ethiopian Church.