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13 - The Book of Enoch · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Chapter eighty nine, Verses one through nine, The Deluge and
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Speaker 1: the Deliverance of Noah chapter eighty nine. And one of
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Speaker 1: those four went to that white bowl and instructed him
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Speaker 1: in a secret, without his being terrified. He was borne
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Speaker 1: a bull and became a man, and built for himself
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Speaker 1: a great vessel, and dwelt thereon, and three bowls dwelt
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Speaker 1: with him in that vessel, and they were covered in
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Speaker 1: And again I raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw
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Speaker 1: a lofty roof with seven water torrents thereon, And those
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Speaker 1: torrents flowed with much water into an enclosure. And I
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Speaker 1: saw again, and behold, fountains were opened on the surface
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Speaker 1: of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell
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Speaker 1: and rise upon the surface. And I saw that enclosure
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Speaker 1: till all its surface was covered with water, and the
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Speaker 1: water the darkness and mist increased upon it. And as
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Speaker 1: I looked at the height of that water, that water
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Speaker 1: had risen above the height of that enclosure and was
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Speaker 1: streaming over that enclosure, and it stood upon the earth,
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Speaker 1: and all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered together,
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Speaker 1: until I saw how they sank and were swallowed up
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Speaker 1: and perished. In that water. But that vessel floated on
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Speaker 1: the water, while all the oxen and elephants, and camels
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Speaker 1: and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals,
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Speaker 1: so that I could no longer see them, and they
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Speaker 1: were not able to escape, but perished and sank into
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Speaker 1: the depths. And again I saw in the vision till
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Speaker 1: those water torrents were removed from that high roof, and
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Speaker 1: the chasms of the earth were leveled up, and other
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Speaker 1: abysses were opened. Then the water began to run down
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Speaker 1: into these till the earth became visible. But that vessel
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Speaker 1: settled on the earth, and the darkness retired, and light appeared.
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Speaker 1: But that white bull, which had become a man, came
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Speaker 1: out of that vessel, and the three bowls with him,
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Speaker 1: and one of those three was white like that bull,
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Speaker 1: and one of them was red as blood, and one black,
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Speaker 1: And that white bull departed from them. Chapter eighty nine,
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Speaker 1: verses ten through twenty seven, from the death of Noah
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Speaker 1: to the Exodus. And they began to bring forth beasts
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Speaker 1: of the field and birds, so that there arose different
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Speaker 1: genre lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles,
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Speaker 1: and ravens, and among them was born a white bull,
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Speaker 1: and they began to bite one another. But that white bull,
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Speaker 1: which was born amongst them, began a wild ass and
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Speaker 1: a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied.
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Speaker 1: But that bull, which was born from him, begat a
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Speaker 1: black wild boar and a white sheep, and the former
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Speaker 1: begat many boares, but that sheep begat twelve sheep, and
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Speaker 1: twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them
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Speaker 1: to the asses, and those asses again gave up that
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Speaker 1: sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew up among
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Speaker 1: the wolves. And the lord brought the eleven sheep to
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Speaker 1: live with it and to pasture within among the wolves.
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Speaker 1: And they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep, and
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Speaker 1: the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them
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Speaker 1: until they destroyed their little ones, and they cast their
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Speaker 1: young into a river of much water. But those sheep
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Speaker 1: began to cry aloud on account of their little ones,
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Speaker 1: and to complain, and too their lord, and a sheep
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Speaker 1: which had been saved from the wolves, fled and escaped
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Speaker 1: to the wild asses. And I saw the sheep how
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Speaker 1: they lamented and cried and besought their lord with all
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Speaker 1: their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at
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Speaker 1: the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and
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Speaker 1: came to them and pastured them. And he called that
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Speaker 1: sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with it
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Speaker 1: concerning the wolves, that is, should admonish them not to
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Speaker 1: touch the sheep. And the sheep went to the wolves
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Speaker 1: according to the word of the Lord. And another sheep
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Speaker 1: met it and went with it. And the two went
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Speaker 1: and entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and
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Speaker 1: spake with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep
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Speaker 1: from henceforth. And thereupon I saw the wolves, and how
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Speaker 1: they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power, And
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Speaker 1: the sheep cried aloud, and the Lord came to the sheep,
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Speaker 1: and they began to smite those wolves, and the wolves
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Speaker 1: began to make lamentation, but the sheep became quiet, and
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Speaker 1: forthwith ceased to cry out. And I saw the sheep
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Speaker 1: till they departed from amongst the wolves. But the eyes
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Speaker 1: of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed in
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Speaker 1: the pursuit of the sheep with all their power, and
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Speaker 1: the Lord of the sheep went with them as their leader,
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Speaker 1: and all his sheep followed him, and his face was
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Speaker 1: dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. But the wolves
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Speaker 1: began to pursue those sheep till they reached a s
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Speaker 1: of water, and the sea was divided, and the water
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Speaker 1: stood on this side and on that before their face.
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Speaker 1: And their lord led them and placed himself between them
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Speaker 1: and the wolves. And as those wolves did not yet
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Speaker 1: see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea.
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Speaker 1: And the wolves followed the sheep, and those wolves ran
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Speaker 1: after them into that sea, And when they saw the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before his face.
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Speaker 1: But that sea gathered itself together and became as it
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Speaker 1: had been created, and the water swelled and rose till
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Speaker 1: it covered those wolves. And I saw till all the
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Speaker 1: wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned. Chapter
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Speaker 1: eighty nine, Verses twenty eight to forty Israel in the desert,
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Speaker 1: the giving of the Law, the entrance into Palestine. But
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Speaker 1: the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into
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Speaker 1: a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass,
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Speaker 1: and they began to open their eyes into sea. And
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Speaker 1: I saw the Lord of the sheep asturing them and
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Speaker 1: giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and
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Speaker 1: leading them, and that sheep ascended to the summit of
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Speaker 1: that lofty rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent
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Speaker 1: it to them. And after that I saw the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the sheep who stood before them, and his appearance
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Speaker 1: was great and terrible and majestic. And all those sheep
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Speaker 1: saw him and were afraid before his face, and they
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Speaker 1: all feared and trembled because of him, and they cried
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Speaker 1: to that sheep with them, which was amongst them, we
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Speaker 1: are not able to stand before our lord or to
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Speaker 1: behold him. And that sheep, which led them again, ascended
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Speaker 1: to the summit of that rock. But the sheep began
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Speaker 1: to be blinded and to wander from the way which
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Speaker 1: he had showed them. But that sheep what not thereof,
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Speaker 1: And the Lord of the sheep was wrathful exceedingly against them.
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Speaker 1: And that sheep discovered it and went down from the
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Speaker 1: summit of the rock and came to the sheep, and
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Speaker 1: found the greatest part of them blinded and fallen away.
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Speaker 1: And when they saw it, they feared and trembled at
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Speaker 1: its presence and desired to return to their folds. And
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Speaker 1: that sheep took other sheep with it and came to
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Speaker 1: those sheep which had fallen away and began to slay them,
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Speaker 1: and the sheep feared its presence. And thus that sheep
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Speaker 1: brought back those sheep that had fallen away, and they
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Speaker 1: returned to their folds. And I saw in this vision
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Speaker 1: till that sheep became a man and built a house
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Speaker 1: for the lord of the sheep, and placed all the
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Speaker 1: sheep in that house. And I saw till this sheep
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Speaker 1: which had met that sheep which led them, fell asleep.
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Speaker 1: And I saw till all the great sheep perished, and
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Speaker 1: little ones arose in their place. And they came to
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Speaker 1: a pasture and approached a stream of water. Then that sheep,
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Speaker 1: their leader, which had become a man, withdrew from them
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Speaker 1: and fell asleep. And all the sheep sought it and
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Speaker 1: cried over it with a great crying. And I saw
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Speaker 1: till they left off crying for that sheep and crossed
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Speaker 1: that stream of water, and there arose the two sheep
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Speaker 1: as leaders in the place place of those which had
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Speaker 1: led them, and fallen asleep. Literally had fallen asleep, and
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Speaker 1: led them. And I saw till the sheep came to
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Speaker 1: a goodly place, and a pleasant and glorious land. And
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Speaker 1: I saw till those sheep were satisfied, and that house
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Speaker 1: stood amongst them in the pleasant land Chapter eighty nine,
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Speaker 1: Verses forty one through fifty, from the time of the
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Speaker 1: judges till the building of the temple. And sometimes their
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Speaker 1: eyes were opened and sometimes blinded, till another sheep arose
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Speaker 1: and led them and brought them all back, and their
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Speaker 1: eyes were opened, and the dogs and the foxes and
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Speaker 1: the wild boars began to devour those sheep, till the
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Speaker 1: lord of the sheep raised up another sheep a ram
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Speaker 1: from their midst, which led them, and that ram began
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Speaker 1: to butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars,
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Speaker 1: till he had destroyed them all. And that sheep, whose
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Speaker 1: eyes were opened, saw that ram which was amongst the sheep,
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Speaker 1: till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep,
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Speaker 1: and rampled upon them, and behaved itself unseemly. And the
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Speaker 1: lord of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb
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Speaker 1: and raised it to being a ram and leader of
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Speaker 1: the sheep instead of that ram which had forsaken its glory.
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Speaker 1: And it went to it and spake to it alone,
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Speaker 1: and raised it to being a ram, and made it
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Speaker 1: the prince and leader of the sheep. But during all
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Speaker 1: these things, those dogs oppressed the sheep, and the first
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Speaker 1: ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose
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Speaker 1: and fled before it. And I saw till those dogs
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Speaker 1: pulled down the first ram, and that second ram arose
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Speaker 1: and led the little sheep, and those sheep grew and multiplied,
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Speaker 1: But all the dogs and foxes and wild boars feared
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Speaker 1: and fled before it. And that ram butted and killed
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Speaker 1: the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had no longer
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Speaker 1: any power among the sheep, and robbed them no more
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Speaker 1: of aught. And that ram yet many sheep and fell asleep,
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Speaker 1: and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and
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Speaker 1: became prince and leader of those sheep. And that house
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Speaker 1: became great and broad, and it was built for those sheep.
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Speaker 1: And a tower, lofty and great, was built on the
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Speaker 1: house for the lord of the sheep. And that house
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Speaker 1: was low, but the tower was elevated and lofty, and
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Speaker 1: the lord of the sheep stood on that tower, and
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Speaker 1: they offered a full table before him. Chapter eighty nine,
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Speaker 1: verses fifty one through sixty seven, the two kingdoms of
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Speaker 1: Israel and Judah, to the destruction of Jerusalem. And again
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Speaker 1: I saw those sheep that they again aired and went
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Speaker 1: many ways, and forsook that their house. And the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the sheep called some from amongst the sheep and
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Speaker 1: sent them to the sheep. But the sheep began to
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Speaker 1: slay them, and one of them was saved and was
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Speaker 1: not slain, and it sped away and cried aloud over
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Speaker 1: the sheep, and they sought to slay it, But the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the sheep said it from the sheep, and
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Speaker 1: brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there.
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Speaker 1: And many other sheep he sent to those sheep to
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Speaker 1: testify unto them and lament over them. And after that
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Speaker 1: I saw that when they forsook the house of the
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Speaker 1: Lord and his tower, they fell away entirely, and their
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Speaker 1: eyes were blinded. And I saw the Lord of the sheep,
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Speaker 1: how he wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds,
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Speaker 1: until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed his place,
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Speaker 1: and he gave them over into the hands of the
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Speaker 1: lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the
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Speaker 1: hands of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts.
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Speaker 1: And those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep.
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Speaker 1: And I saw that he forsook that their house and
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Speaker 1: their tower, and gave them all into the hand of
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Speaker 1: the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand
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Speaker 1: of all the wild beasts. And I began to cry
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Speaker 1: out loud with all my power, and to appeal to
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Speaker 1: the Lord of the sheep, and to represent him in
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Speaker 1: regard to the sheep, that they were devoured by all
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Speaker 1: the wild beasts. But he remained unmoved, though he saw
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Speaker 1: it and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed,
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Speaker 1: and left them to be devoured in the hand of
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Speaker 1: all the beasts. And he called seventy shepherds and cast
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Speaker 1: those sheep to them, that they might pasture them. And
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Speaker 1: he spake to the shepherds and their companions, let each
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Speaker 1: individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that
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Speaker 1: I shall command you that do ye, and I will
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Speaker 1: deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you
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Speaker 1: which of them are to be destroyed, and them destroy ye,
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Speaker 1: And he gave over unto them those sheep, and he
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Speaker 1: called another and spake unto him. Observe and mark everything
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Speaker 1: that the shepherds will do to those sheep, for they
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Speaker 1: will destroy more of them than I have commanded them,
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Speaker 1: and every excess and the destruction which will be wrought
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Speaker 1: through the shepherds. Record namely how many they destroy according
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Speaker 1: to my command, and how many according to their own caprice.
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Speaker 1: Record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he affects,
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Speaker 1: and read out before me by number, how many they destroy,
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Speaker 1: and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I
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Speaker 1: may have this as a testimony against them, and know
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Speaker 1: every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend, and
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Speaker 1: see what they do, whether or not they abide by
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Speaker 1: my command which I have commanded them. But they shall
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Speaker 1: not know it, And thou shalt not declare it to them,
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Speaker 1: nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all
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Speaker 1: the destruction which the shepherds affect, each in his time,
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Speaker 1: and lay it all before me. And I saw till
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Speaker 1: those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to
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Speaker 1: slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and
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Speaker 1: they delivered those sheep into the hand of the lions,
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Speaker 1: and the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater
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Speaker 1: part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along
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Speaker 1: with them. And they burnt that tower and demolished that house.
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Speaker 1: And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower, because that
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Speaker 1: house of the sheep was demolished. And afterwards I was
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Speaker 1: unable to see if those sheep entered that house. Chapter
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Speaker 1: eighty nine, Verses sixty eight through seventy one, first period
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Speaker 1: of the Angelic rulers, from the destruction of Jerusalem to
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Speaker 1: the return from the captivity. And the shepherds and their
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Speaker 1: associates delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts
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Speaker 1: to devour them. And each one of them received in
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Speaker 1: his time a definite number. It was written by the
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Speaker 1: other in a book, how many each one of them
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Speaker 1: destroyed of them, and each one slew and destroyed many
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Speaker 1: more than was prescribed. And I began to weep and
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Speaker 1: lament on account of those sheep. And thus in the
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Speaker 1: vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote
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Speaker 1: down every one that was destroyed by those shepherds day
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Speaker 1: by day, and carried up and laid down, and showed
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Speaker 1: actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep,
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Speaker 1: even everything that they had done, and all that each
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Speaker 1: one of them had made away with, and all that
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Speaker 1: they had given over to destruction. And the book was
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Speaker 1: read before the Lord of the sheep. And he took
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Speaker 1: the book from his hand and read it, and sealed
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Speaker 1: it and laid it down Chapter eighty nine, Verses seventy
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Speaker 1: two through seventy seven, second period from the time of
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Speaker 1: Cyrus to that of Alexander the Great, and forthwith. I
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Speaker 1: saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold,
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Speaker 1: three of those sheep turned back and came and entered
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Speaker 1: and began to build up all that had fallen down
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Speaker 1: of that house. But the wild boars tried to hinder them,
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Speaker 1: but they were not able. And they began again to
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Speaker 1: build as before. And they reared up that tower, and
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Speaker 1: it was named the High Tower. And they began again
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Speaker 1: to place a table before the tower, but all the
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Speaker 1: bread on it was polluted and not pure. And as
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Speaker 1: touching all this, the eyes of those sheep were blinded,
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Speaker 1: so that they saw not, and the eyes of their
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Speaker 1: shepherds likewise, and they delivered them in large numbers to
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Speaker 1: their shepherds for destruction. And they trampled the sheep with
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Speaker 1: their feet and devoured them. And the Lord of the
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Speaker 1: sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over
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Speaker 1: the field and mingled with them, in other words, the beasts,
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Speaker 1: and they, in other words, the shepherds did not save
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Speaker 1: them out of the hand of the beasts. And this
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Speaker 1: one who wrote the book carried it up and showed
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Speaker 1: it and read it before the Lord of the sheep,
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Speaker 1: and implored him on their account, and besought him on
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Speaker 1: their account, as he showed him all the doings of
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Speaker 1: the shepherds, and gave testimony before him against all the shepherds.
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Speaker 1: And he took the actual book and laid it down
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Speaker 1: beside him, and departed. And of section thirteen