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Speaker 1: Section one editor's preface. The object of this series of
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Speaker 1: Our principal aim, in a word, is to make some
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Speaker 1: difficult texts important for the study of Christian origins more
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Speaker 1: these texts are not available in a cheap and handy form.
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Speaker 1: In one or two cases, texts have been included of
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Speaker 1: books which are available in the official Apocrypha, But in
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Speaker 1: every such case reasons exist for putting forth these texts
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Speaker 1: in a new translation with an introduction in this series
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Speaker 1: Woe Oasterly gh Box introduction the apocalyptic literature. As the
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Speaker 1: Book of Enoch is, in some respects the most notable
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Speaker 1: extant apocalyptic work outside the canonical scriptures, it will not
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Speaker 1: be inappropriate to offer a few remarks here on the
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Speaker 1: apocalyptic literature generally. In writing about the books which belong
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Speaker 1: to this literature, Professor Burkett says very pointedly that they
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Speaker 1: are the most characteristic survival of what I will venture
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Speaker 1: to call, with all its narrowness and its incoherence, the
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Speaker 1: Heroic Age of Jewish history, the age when the nation
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Speaker 1: attempted to realize in action the part of the peculiar
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Speaker 1: people of God. It ended in catastrophe, but the nation
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Speaker 1: left two successors, the Christian Church and the Rabbinical schools,
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Speaker 1: each of which carried on some of the old national aims.
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Speaker 1: And of the two, it was the Christian Church that
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Speaker 1: was most faithful to the ideas enshrined in the apocalypses,
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Speaker 1: and it did consider itself, not without some reason, the
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Speaker 1: fulfillment of those ideas. What is wanted. Therefore, in studying
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Speaker 1: the apocalypses is above all sympathy with the ideas that
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Speaker 1: underlie them, and especially with the belief in the New Age,
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Speaker 1: and those who believe that in Christianity a new era
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Speaker 1: really did dawn for us, ought, I think, to have
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Speaker 1: that sympathy, we study the Apocalypses to learn how our
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Speaker 1: spiritual ancestors hoped again that God would make all right
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Speaker 1: in the end, and that we their children are here today.
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Speaker 1: Studying them is an indication that their hope was not
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Speaker 1: wholly unfounded. Hope is indeed the main underlying motive power
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Speaker 1: which the writers of the apocalypses, and this hope is
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Speaker 1: the more intensive and ardent in that it shines forth
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Speaker 1: from a background which is dark with despair. For the
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Speaker 1: apocalyptists despaired of the world in which they lived, a
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Speaker 1: world in which the godly were of no account, while
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Speaker 1: the wicked seem too often triumphant and prosperous, with evil
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Speaker 1: everywhere around. The Apocalyptus saw no hope for the world
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Speaker 1: as it was. For such a world, there was no remedy,
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Speaker 1: only destruction. If the good were ever to triumph, it
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Speaker 1: must be in a new world. Despairing therefore of the
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Speaker 1: world around them, the Apocalyptus centered their hope upon a
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Speaker 1: world to come where the righteous would come to their
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Speaker 1: own and evil would find no place. It is this
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Speaker 1: thought which underlies the opening words of the Book of Enoch,
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Speaker 1: the words of the Blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed
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Speaker 1: the elect and righteous, who will be living in the
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Speaker 1: day of Tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are
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Speaker 1: to be removed. Nowhere in this book is the essence
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Speaker 1: of this hope more beautifully expressed than in a short
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Speaker 1: metrical peace in the first chapter. But with the righteous,
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Speaker 1: he will make peace and will protect the elect, and
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Speaker 1: mercy shall be upon them, and they shall all belong
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Speaker 1: to God, and they shall all be prospered, and they
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Speaker 1: shall all be blessed, and He will help them all,
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Speaker 1: and light shall appear unto them, and He will make
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Speaker 1: peace with them first Enoch one eight. In all the
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Speaker 1: books belonging to this literature which have come down to us,
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Speaker 1: this hope is expressed more or less vividly. Nor is
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Speaker 1: the dark background wanting with prophecies of coming wrath. It
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Speaker 1: will therefore be realized that the apocalyptic literature is almost
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Speaker 1: wholly concerned with the future. It is true that again
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Speaker 1: and again the apocalyptist glances at the contemporary history of
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Speaker 1: the world around him, to which many a cryptic reference
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Speaker 1: is made, a fact which necessitates some knowledge of the
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Speaker 1: history of this period circa. Two hundred b c. Through
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Speaker 1: a d. One hundred for a full understanding of the
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Speaker 1: books in question. But these references are only made with
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Speaker 1: a view to comforting the oppressed and afflicted, with the
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Speaker 1: thought that even the most mighty of earthly powers are
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Speaker 1: shortly to be overthrown by the advent of the new
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Speaker 1: and glorious era, when every injustice and all the incongruities
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Speaker 1: of life will be done away with, so that every
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Speaker 1: reference to the present is merely a position taken up
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Speaker 1: from which to point to the future. Now, since, as
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Speaker 1: we have seen, the apocalyptusts despair of any bettering of
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Speaker 1: the present world, and therefore contemplate its destruction as the
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Speaker 1: preliminary of the new order things, they look away from
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Speaker 1: this world. In their visions of the future, they conceive
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Speaker 1: of other worldly forces coming into play in the reconstitution
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Speaker 1: of things and of society generally. And since these are
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Speaker 1: other worldly forces, the supernatural plays a great part in
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Speaker 1: the apocalyptic literature. This supernatural coloring will often strike the
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Speaker 1: reader of this literature as fantastic and at times bizarre,
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Speaker 1: but this should not be permitted to obscure the reality
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Speaker 1: which often lies behind these weird shadows. Mental visions are
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Speaker 1: not always easily expressed in words. The seer, who in
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Speaker 1: a vision has received a message in some fantastic guise,
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Speaker 1: necessarily has the impress upon his mind of what he
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Speaker 1: has seen when giving his message, and when he describes
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Speaker 1: his vision, the picture he presents is, in the nature
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Speaker 1: of the case, more fantastic to the ear of the
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Speaker 1: hearer than to the eye of him who saw it.
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Speaker 1: Allowance should be made for this, especially by US Westerns,
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Speaker 1: who are so lacking in the rich imaginativeness of the Oriental.
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Speaker 1: Our love of literalness hinders the play of the imagination
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Speaker 1: because we are so apt to materialize a mental picture
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Speaker 1: presented by another. The apocalypses were written by and for Orientals,
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Speaker 1: and we cannot do justice to them unless we remember this.
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Speaker 1: But it would be best if we could get into
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Speaker 1: the Oriental mind and look at things from that point
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Speaker 1: of view. Another thing which the reader of the apocalyptic
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Speaker 1: literature must be prepared for is the frequent inconsistency of
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Speaker 1: thought to be found there together with variableness of teaching,
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Speaker 1: often involving contradiction. The reason of this is not to
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Speaker 1: be sought simply in the fact that in the apocalypses
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Speaker 1: the hand of more than one author is frequently to
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Speaker 1: be discerned, a fact which would easily account for divergence
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Speaker 1: of views in one and the same book. No, the
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Speaker 1: chief reason is that, on the one hand, the minds
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Speaker 1: of the apocalyptus were saturated with the traditional thoughts and
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Speaker 1: ideas of the Old Testament, and on the other they
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Speaker 1: were eagerly absorbing the newer conceptions which the spirit of
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Speaker 1: the Age had brought into being. This occasioned a continual
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Speaker 1: conflict of thought in their minds. The endeavor to harmonize
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Speaker 1: the old and the new would not always succeed, and
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Speaker 1: in consequence there often resulted a compromise which was illogical
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Speaker 1: and which presented contradictions. Inconsistency of teaching on certain points
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Speaker 1: is therefore not surprising under the circumstances. Again, to realize
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Speaker 1: the significance of much that is found in these apocalypses,
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Speaker 1: one has to reckon with a rigid predestinarianism, which was
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Speaker 1: characteristic of the Apocalyptus as a whole. They started with
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Speaker 1: the absolute conviction that the whole course of the world,
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Speaker 1: from beginning to end, both as regards to its physical changes,
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Speaker 1: and also in all that concerns the history of nations,
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Speaker 1: their growth and decline, and of every single individual, was
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Speaker 1: in every respect predetermined by God Almighty before all time.
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Speaker 1: This belief of the Apocalyptus is well illustrated in one
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Speaker 1: of the later Apocalypses by these words. For he hath
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Speaker 1: weighed the age and the balance, and by number hath
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Speaker 1: he numbered the seasons. Neither will he move nor stir
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Speaker 1: things till the measure appointed be fulfilled Second Ezras four
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Speaker 1: thirty six and thirty seven. Thus the times and periods
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Speaker 1: of the course of the world's history have been predetermined
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Speaker 1: by God. The numbers of the years have been exactly fixed.
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Speaker 1: This was a fundamental postulate of the Apocalyptists, who devoted
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Speaker 1: much of their energy to calculations based upon a close
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Speaker 1: study of prophecy as to the exact period when history
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Speaker 1: should reach its consummation. The underlying idea is predestinarian. But
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Speaker 1: all these things, according to the Apocalyptus, were divine secrets
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Speaker 1: hidden from the beginning of the world, but revealed to
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Speaker 1: God fearing men, to whom was accorded the faculty of
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Speaker 1: peering into the hidden things of God and of understanding them.
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Speaker 1: Upon these men was laid the privilege and duty of
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Speaker 1: revealing the divine secrets to others. Hence their name of
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Speaker 1: apocalyptus or revealers. It was because the Apocalyptusts believe so
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Speaker 1: firmly in this power which they possessed of looking int
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Speaker 1: to the deep things of God, that they claimed to
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Speaker 1: be able to measure the significance of what had happened
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Speaker 1: in the past and of what was happening in the present.
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Speaker 1: And upon the basis of this knowledge, they believed that
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Speaker 1: they also had the power given them by God of
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Speaker 1: foreseeing the march of future events, above all, of knowing
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Speaker 1: when the end of the world would come, a consummation
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Speaker 1: towards which the whole history of the world had been
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Speaker 1: tending from the beginning. In spite of all the mysticism,
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Speaker 1: sometimes of a rather fantastic kind, and of frequently super
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Speaker 1: mundane vision, with which the apocalyptic literature abounds, the apocalyptists
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Speaker 1: fully realized the need of practical religion. They were upholders
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Speaker 1: of the law, the loyal observance of which they regard
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Speaker 1: as a necessity for all god vearing men. In this
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Speaker 1: the Apocalyptus were one in principle with Pharisaism, but their
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Speaker 1: conception of what constituted loyal observance of the law differed
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Speaker 1: from that of the Pharisees. For unlike that these, the
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Speaker 1: Apocalyptus laid all stress on the spirit of its observance,
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Speaker 1: rather than upon the letter, characteristic of their attitude. Here
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Speaker 1: are the words in Firstynik, chapter five, verse four. But
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Speaker 1: ye ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. But ye have turned away and have
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Speaker 1: spoken proud and hard words with your impure mouths against
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Speaker 1: his greatness. Oh ye hard hearted, ye shall find no peace.
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Speaker 1: And again in ninety nine two, woe to them that
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Speaker 1: pervert the words of uprightness and transgress the eternal law.
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Speaker 1: We do not find in this literature that insistence on
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Speaker 1: the literal carrying out of the minutest precepts of the law,
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Speaker 1: which was characteristic of Phariseeism. Veneration. For the law is wholehearted.
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Speaker 1: It is the real guide of life. Punishment awaits those
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Speaker 1: who ignore its guidance. But the Pharisaic interpretation of the
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Speaker 1: law and its requirements is alien to the spirit of
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Speaker 1: the apocalyptists as a whole. The apocalyptic literature presents an
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Speaker 1: universalistic attitude, very different from the nationalistic narrowness of the Pharisees.
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Speaker 1: It is true the apocalyptists are not always consistent in this,
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Speaker 1: but normally they embrace the gentiles equally with the men
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Speaker 1: of their own nation in the divine scheme of salvation,
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Speaker 1: and in the same way the wicked, who are excluded
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Speaker 1: are not restricted to the gentiles, but the Jews equally
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Speaker 1: with them, shall suffer torment hereafter according to their deserts.
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Speaker 1: The apocalyptic literature, as distinct from the apocalyptic movement owing
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Speaker 1: to which it took its rise, began to come into
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Speaker 1: existence about the period of two hundred to one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty BC. At any rate, the earliest extant example
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Speaker 1: of this literature, the earliest portions of the Book of Enoch,
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Speaker 1: belongs to this period. Works of an apocalyptic characture continued
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Speaker 1: to be written for about three centuries. The second fourth
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Speaker 1: Book of Estras, one of the most remarkable apocalypses, belongs
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Speaker 1: to the end of the first Christian century, approximately. There
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Speaker 1: are apocalypses of later date. Some of subordinate interests are
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Speaker 1: of much later date, but the real period of the
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Speaker 1: apocalyptic literature is from about two hundred BC to about
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Speaker 1: a d. One hundred. Its beginnings date therefore from a
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Speaker 1: time prior to that great landmark in Jewish history, the
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Speaker 1: Maccabean Era. The Book of Enoch, its component parts, and
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Speaker 1: their dates. The Book of Enoch is now usually designated
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Speaker 1: First Enoch to distinguish it from the later Apocalypse the
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Speaker 1: Secrets of Enoch, known as Second Enuch. The former is
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Speaker 1: also called the Ethiopic Enoch, the latter the Slavonic Enoch.
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Speaker 1: After the languages of the earliest versions extant of each, respectively.
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Speaker 1: No manuscript of the original language of either is known
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Speaker 1: to be in existence. According to Canon Charles, the various
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Speaker 1: elements of which our book in its present form is
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Speaker 1: made up belong to different dates. The following table will
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Speaker 1: show the dates of the different parts of the book.
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Speaker 1: Canon Charles believes that these are approximately correct, without committing
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Speaker 1: himself to the certainty of this. In each case, chapters
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Speaker 1: twelve through thirty six, forty two, and ninety one twelve
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Speaker 1: through seventeen, The Apocalypse of Weeks, the oldest pre Maccabean
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Speaker 1: portions chapters six through eleven, fifty four, seven through fifty five,
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Speaker 1: two sixty, sixty five through sixty nine, twenty five, one
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Speaker 1: O six through one O seven. Fragments of the Book
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Speaker 1: of Noah pre Maccabean at the latest chapters eighty three
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Speaker 1: to ninety the Dream dash Visions one sixty five to
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Speaker 1: one sixty one BC, seventy two to eighty two. The
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Speaker 1: Book of the Heavenly Luminaries before one hundred and ten BC,
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Speaker 1: chapters thirty seven to seventy one, ninety one one to eleven,
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Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen through one hundred and four, The Parables or
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Speaker 1: Similitudes circle one hundred and five to sixty four BC,
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Speaker 1: chapters one through five the latest portion but pre Christian
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Speaker 1: chapter one hundred and five, which consists of only two verses,
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Speaker 1: cannot be dated, while chapter one hundred and eight is
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Speaker 1: in the nature of an appendix, probably added subsequently to
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Speaker 1: the whole work. While these dates may be regarded as
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Speaker 1: approximately correct, it should be pointed out that differences of
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Speaker 1: opinion exist among scholars on the subject. Surer holds, for example, that,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of chapters thirty seven through seventy one
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Speaker 1: the Parables or Similitudes, the entire book belongs to the
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Speaker 1: period of one hundred thirty to one hundred BC. The
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Speaker 1: Parables he assigns to a time not earlier than Herod
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Speaker 1: the Great. Bier thinks that the dream visions chapters eighty
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Speaker 1: three through ninety belonged to the time of John Hercanus
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Speaker 1: one thirty five to one hundred and five BC, and
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Speaker 1: he includes under the pre Maccabean portions only ninety one
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Speaker 1: twelve through seventeen, ninety two, ninety three one through fourteen,
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Speaker 1: and holds that the rest of the book was written
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Speaker 1: before sixty four BC. Dolman maintains that it cannot be
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Speaker 1: proved that the important sections thirty seven through seventy one
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Speaker 1: the Similitudes is the product of the pre Christian period,
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Speaker 1: though he fully recognizes its Jewish character. Burkett regards the
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Speaker 1: writer as almost contemporary with the philosopher Posidonius one thirty
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Speaker 1: five to fifty one BC. There is thus some diversity
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Speaker 1: of opinion as to the date of the book, among
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Speaker 1: leading a thord that it is as a whole pre
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Speaker 1: Christian may be regarded as definitely established. More difficult is
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Speaker 1: the question whether any portions of it are pre Maccabean.
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Speaker 1: Charles gives various reasons for his belief that considerable parts
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Speaker 1: are pre Maccabean. We are inclined to agree with him,
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Speaker 1: though it may be questioned whether the last word on
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Speaker 1: the subject has been spoken authorship, as the various parts
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Speaker 1: of the book clearly belong to different dates, diversity of
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Speaker 1: authorship is what one is naturally led to expect, and
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Speaker 1: of this there can indeed be no shadow of doubt.
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Speaker 1: The author of the earliest portions was a Jew who lived,
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Speaker 1: as burkettis shown in northern Palestine, in the land of Dan,
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Speaker 1: southwest of the Herman Range, near the headwaters of the Jordan.
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Speaker 1: This is important as it tends to show that the
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Speaker 1: book or books is really Palestinian, and one which therefore
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Speaker 1: circulated among Jews in Palestine. If moreover, the author came
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Speaker 1: from the North, that helps to explain the influence the
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Speaker 1: book had upon the religion that was cradled in Galilee.
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Speaker 1: Of the authors of the other three books of which
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Speaker 1: Enoch is made up viz. The Dream Dush visions the
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Speaker 1: book of the heavenly Luminaries and the Similitudes, we know
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Speaker 1: nothing save what can be gathered from their writings As
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Speaker 1: to their religious standpoint. Charles holds that though there is
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Speaker 1: not unity of authorship, there is nonetheless uniformity, for according
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Speaker 1: to him, all the books were written by Chasidam or
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Speaker 1: by their successors, the Pharisees. This contention has been strongly
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Speaker 1: assailed and much weakened by Lozinski in a recent work
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Speaker 1: on the Sadducees. While frankly recognizing the composite character of
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Speaker 1: the book, Lozinsky holds that the original portions of it
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Speaker 1: emanate from sadduce in circles, and that the special object
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Speaker 1: of the book originally was the bringing about of a
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Speaker 1: reform of the calendar. He points to the description of
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Speaker 1: the book to Enoch as supporting his contention. For Enoch
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Speaker 1: lived three hundred and sixty five years i e. Is
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Speaker 1: years correspond to the number of days in the solar year.
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Speaker 1: The basis of reckoning time was one of the fundamental
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Speaker 1: points of difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees. For whereas
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Speaker 1: the former reckoned time by the lunar year, three hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty days. The latter did so by the solar year.
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Speaker 1: Here a significant remark of Burkett's is worth recalling. In
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Speaker 1: writing about the false titles given to all the apocalyptic books,
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Speaker 1: he says, there is another aspect of pseudonymous authorship to
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Speaker 1: which I venture to think sufficient attention has not been given.
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Speaker 1: It is this that the names were not chosen out
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Speaker 1: of mere caprice. They indicated, to a certain extent what
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Speaker 1: subjects would be treated and the point of view of
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Speaker 1: the writer. Further, the fact that Enoch walked with God,
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Speaker 1: and he was not for God took him, i e.
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Speaker 1: That he ascended into the heavens is also significant, for
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Speaker 1: he would thereby I be just the one to know
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Speaker 1: all about the heavenly luminaries. He was just the most
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Speaker 1: appropriate author of a book which was to deal with
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Speaker 1: astronomical questions. The satistated character of the original work, says Lizinski,
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Speaker 1: is seen most clearly in the discussion regarding the calendar.
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Speaker 1: Chapter seventy two through eighty two are rightly called the
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Speaker 1: Book of Astronomy, the Book of the courses of the
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Speaker 1: luminaries of the Heaven, the relations of each according to
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Speaker 1: their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their
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Speaker 1: names and places of origin, and according to their months,
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Speaker 1: with regard to all the years of the world, and
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Speaker 1: unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished, which endureth
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Speaker 1: till all eternity seventy two. One. That sounds almost as
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Speaker 1: though the author of the Book of Jubilees had written it.
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Speaker 1: That it is not a merely scientific interest which impels
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Speaker 1: the writer to give expression to his astronomical theories, may
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Speaker 1: be seen from the words of the inclusion of the
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Speaker 1: section Blessed are all the righteous. Blessed are all those
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Speaker 1: who walk in the way of righteousness, and sin not
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Speaker 1: as the sinners in the reckoning of all their days,
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Speaker 1: in which the sun traverseth the heaven, entering into and
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Speaker 1: departing from the portals for thirty days eighty two, Verses
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Speaker 1: four through seven. Herein one can discern quite clearly the
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Speaker 1: tendency of the writer. He desires the adoption of the
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Speaker 1: solar year, while his contemporary strongly followed a different reckoning
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Speaker 1: and therefore celebrated the feasts at the wrong time. The
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Speaker 1: sinners who sin in the reckoning of the year are
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Speaker 1: the Pharisees and the righteous ones who are blessed, the
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Speaker 1: Zedikum who walk upon the paths of righteousness, zedek, as
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Speaker 1: the name is made to imply, are the Sadducees. The
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Speaker 1: point may appear small to us, but we may compare
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Speaker 1: it with the Quarterdescimine controversy in the Church during the
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Speaker 1: second century. It is, at any rate, a strong point
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Speaker 1: likely that, with the exceptions already referred to, the various
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Speaker 1: component parts of the book were written by Apocalyptus, who
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Speaker 1: This was translated from the Greek version, of which only
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Speaker 1: thirty six fifty eight through ninety were Aramaic, the rest Hebrew.
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Speaker 1: It is, however, very difficult to say for certain which
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Speaker 1: yet not decisively general contents. The reader who comes to
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Speaker 1: time he will come to the other arts of the book,
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Speaker 1: which he will soon see to be of real value
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Speaker 1: from many points of view. But even regarding the less
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Speaker 1: attractive parts, he will find that when these are carefully studied,
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Speaker 1: they contain more that is of interest than appears upon
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Speaker 1: as the first thirty six chapters do not all belong together.
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Speaker 1: But in any case, it will be found most useful
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Speaker 1: One the Book of Enoch, chapters twelve through thirty six.
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Speaker 1: The book begins with a dream dash vision of Enoch.
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Speaker 1: In this dream, Enoch is asked to intercede for the
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Speaker 1: He writes out the petition c P, the title Enoch
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Speaker 1: They are evidently incomplete and somewhat confused. In all probability,
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Speaker 1: sees the luminaries of Heaven. After that the angels show
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Speaker 1: and the Accursed Valley twenty one through twenty seven. The
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Speaker 1: journeys to the east, to the north, and to the south.
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Speaker 1: Of special interest here is the mention of the Garden
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Speaker 1: may appear pointless and uninspiring, but we must bear in
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Speaker 1: angels were believed to have brought sin onto the earth.
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Speaker 1: before righteousness can come truly to its own. Therefore, the
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Speaker 1: Apocalyptist has a practical aim in view when describing in
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Speaker 1: sin are the offspring of this race. No less does
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Speaker 1: of the imagination of the apocalyptist, based largely no doubt
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Speaker 1: upon popular tradition, did not detract from their practical vs
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Speaker 1: the triumph of righteousness over sin. One of the like
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Speaker 1: spirits of the reprobate and the children of the watchers,
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Speaker 1: because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the
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Speaker 1: some new and important elements are introduced which give special
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Speaker 1: ninety four is a prophecy of coming judgment upon the wicked,
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Speaker 1: There are also the four archangels and innumerable companies of
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Speaker 1: A fragment on wisdom forty two, which recalls some passages
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Speaker 1: The following is well worth quoting. And the righteous and
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Speaker 1: place three the Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries,
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Speaker 1: chapters seventy two through eighty two. In seventy four to twelve,
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Speaker 1: it says, and the Sun and the stars bring in
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Speaker 1: or delay their position by a single day, unto eternity,
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Speaker 1: but complete the years with perfect justice in three hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty four days. This gives the keynote of this book, viz.
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Speaker 1: That time is to be reckoned by the sun, not
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Speaker 1: in the extreme. It purports to tell in detail of
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Speaker 1: the laws by which the sun, moon, stars, and the
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Speaker 1: winds are governed. They are described by Uriel, the Holy
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Speaker 1: Angel to the apocalyptist. The four quarters of the world,
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Speaker 1: the seven mountains, and the seven rivers are also dealt with.
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Speaker 1: The author has no other interests save as scientific one
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Speaker 1: The whole tone alters in these verses, in which it
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Speaker 1: is thus brought in, which is wholly lacking in the
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Speaker 1: previous chapters of this book. This is also true of
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Speaker 1: chapter eighty one. It is probable that neither of these
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Speaker 1: only through sheer incapacity for appreciating and thing better, for
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Speaker 1: he must have been acquainted with the solar year of
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Speaker 1: acquaintance with the Greek cycles shows this. The author's reckoning
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Speaker 1: may be partly due to his opposition to Heathen systems,
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Speaker 1: and partly to the fact that three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: lunar year the Pharisaic way of reckoning time, and this
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Speaker 1: is an important point in favor of Saddace and authorship.
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Speaker 1: It will be noted that this book was written in
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Speaker 1: post Maccabean times. It was after the Maccabean Struggle that
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Speaker 1: the Sadducees and Pharisees appeared as parties definitely opposed to
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Speaker 1: one another. Four The Dream slash Vision Chapters eighty three
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Speaker 1: The first deals with the judgment brought upon the world
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Speaker 1: by the deluge on account of sin. The origin of
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Speaker 1: sin is again traced to the angels who fell. It
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Speaker 1: concludes with a hymn of praise to God, in which
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Speaker 1: first the patriarchs, symbolized by bulls et cetera. Eighty five,
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Speaker 1: then the fallen angels, also described in symbolic language, and
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Speaker 1: their punishment eighty six through eighty eight. The history then
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Speaker 1: proceeds to deal more specifically with Israel, from the time
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Speaker 1: verse nineteen. Throughout the dream dash vision, symbolic language is used.
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Speaker 1: The dream slash vision concludes with some familiar eschatological notes,
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Speaker 1: Verses ten, eighteen, and nineteen also belong Here is a complete,
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Speaker 1: though short work, but there are some obvious interpolations, and
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Speaker 1: it is quite possible that some parts of the text
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Speaker 1: are dislocated. This makes the understanding of the book difficult,
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Speaker 1: but if we follow Charles's guidance here the difficult call
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Speaker 1: these will disappear. He says that this concluding piece has
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Speaker 1: in some degree suffered at the hands of the final
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Speaker 1: editor of the book, both in the way of direct
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Speaker 1: interpolation and of severe dislocations of the text. The interpolations
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Speaker 1: ninety one, twelve through seventeen should undoubtedly be read directly
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Speaker 1: after ninety three. Taken together, ninety three verse one through ten,
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Speaker 1: ninety one, twelve through seventeen form an independent whole, the
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Speaker 1: Apocalypse of Weeks, which has been incorporated in ninety one
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Speaker 1: the Scribe et cetera. On ninety two follows ninety one
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Speaker 1: where Enix summons his children to receive his parting words.
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Speaker 1: Then comes the Apocalypse of Weeks ninety three one through ten,
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Speaker 1: ninety one, twelve through seventeen. The original order of the
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Speaker 1: eighteen teen, nineteen ninety three, one through ten, ninety one,
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Speaker 1: new teaching of great importance is put forth here. Hitherto
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Speaker 1: it had been taught that although much incongruity and apparent
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Speaker 1: injustice were to be found on this earth, owing to
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Speaker 1: the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked,
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Speaker 1: nevertheless all things would be righted in the world to come,
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Speaker 1: where the wicked would receive their deserts and the righteous
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Speaker 1: taught that retribution will overtake the wicked, and the righteous
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Speaker 1: the setting up of the Messianic Kingdom, and that at
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Speaker 1: least there will come, with the final judgment, the destruction
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Speaker 1: in consequence, judgments on mankind i e. The Deluge, and
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Speaker 1: the preservation of Noah. The first five chapters are generally
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Speaker 1: wicked and the blood of the righteous. Chapter one hundred
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Speaker 1: whole collection, touches upon the same theme the importance of
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Speaker 1: the book for the study of Christian origins. This is
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Speaker 1: in how many aspects it represents the doctrine and the
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Speaker 1: popular conceptions of the Jews during the two last pre
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Speaker 1: Christian centuries. To do this here would evolve a far
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Speaker 1: too extended investigation. It must suffice to indicate a few
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Speaker 1: of the many points which should be studied. From these,
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Speaker 1: it will be seen how important the book is for
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Speaker 1: study of Christian origins. Charles says that the influence of
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Speaker 1: First Denik on the New Testament has been greater than
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Speaker 1: that of all the other apocryphal and pseudopographical books put together,
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Speaker 1: and he gives a formidable list of passages in the
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Speaker 1: on or are illustrative of passages in First Enoch, as
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Speaker 1: well as a further list showing that various doctrines in
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Speaker 1: First Enuch had an undoubted share in molding the corresponding
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Speaker 1: New Testament doctrines. These passages should be studied, and they
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Speaker 1: will be found to be a most interesting study in
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Speaker 1: Charles's work, already referred to several times, pages ninety five
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Speaker 1: pages one hundred and three to one hundred and ten.
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Speaker 1: Another book of great value and interest already quoted is
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Speaker 1: Burquette's Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. In dealing with the subject
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Speaker 1: of First Ench and the Gospels, this writer points out
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Speaker 1: that the former contains a serious attempt to account for
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Speaker 1: the presence of evil in human history, and this attempt
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Speaker 1: claims our attention because it is, in essentials the view
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Speaker 1: presupposed in the Gospels, especially in the Synoptic Gospels. It
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Speaker 1: is when you study Matthew, Mark and Luke against the
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Speaker 1: background of the Books of Enoch that you see them
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Speaker 1: of the things upon the earth change, but all the
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Speaker 1: And their lamentations have ascended and cannot cease because of
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Speaker 1: thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and
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Speaker 1: And the Lord's son and to Michael, go bind some
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Speaker 1: trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant
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Speaker 1: ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from
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Speaker 1: wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth, and
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Speaker 1: all the children of men shall become righteous, and all
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Speaker 1: nations shall offer adoration and shall praise me, and all
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Speaker 1: shall worship me. And the earth shall be cleansed from
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Speaker 1: all defilement and from all sin, and from all punishment,
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Speaker 1: and from all torment. And I will never again send
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Speaker 1: them upon it, from generation to generation and forever eleven.
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Speaker 1: And in those days I will open the store chambers
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Speaker 1: labor of the children of men. And truth and peace
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Speaker 1: he was hidden and where he abode, and what had
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Speaker 1: the watchers, and his days were with the Holy ones.
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Speaker 1: And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of Majesty in
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Speaker 1: the King of the Ages, and lo the watchers called
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Speaker 1: me Enoch the scribe, and said to me Enoch, thou
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Speaker 1: scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the watchers of the heaven,
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Speaker 1: who have left the high Heaven the holy eternal place,
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Speaker 1: Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth, and ye
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Speaker 1: shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin. And inasmuch
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Speaker 1: as they delight themselves in their children the murder of
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Speaker 1: their beloved ones shall they see, And over the destruction
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Speaker 1: of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication
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Speaker 1: unto eternity. But mercy and peace shall ye not attain.
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Speaker 1: have no peace. A severe sentence has gone forth against
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Speaker 1: THEE to put THEE in bonds, and thou shalt not
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Speaker 1: unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the
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Speaker 1: hast shown to men. Then I went and spoke to
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Speaker 1: them altogether, and they were all afraid, and fear and
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Speaker 1: trembling seized them. And they besought me to draw up
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Speaker 1: a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and
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Speaker 1: their requests, that they should have forgiveness and length of days.
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Speaker 1: And I went off and sat down at the waters
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Speaker 1: of the west of Herman. I read their petition till
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Speaker 1: I fell asleep, and behold, a dream came to me,
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Speaker 1: and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions
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Speaker 1: of chastisement, and a voice came bidding me, I tell
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Speaker 1: it to the sons of Heaven and reprimand them. And
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Speaker 1: when I waked, I came unto them, and they were
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Speaker 1: all sitting gathered together, weeping in abbaz jail. Which is
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Speaker 1: between Lebanon and Seniser, with their faces covered, and I
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Speaker 1: recounted before them all the visions which I had seen
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Speaker 1: in sleep, and I began to speak the words of
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Speaker 1: which the Great One has given to men to converse
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Speaker 1: of wisdom. So hath He created me also and given
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Speaker 1: me the power of reprimanding the watchers, the children of Heaven.
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Speaker 1: I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it
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Speaker 1: appeared thus that your petition will not be granted unto
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Speaker 1: you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgment
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Speaker 1: has been finally passed upon you. Yea, your petition will
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Speaker 1: not be granted unto you, and from henceforth you shall
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Speaker 1: not ascend into Heaven, into all eternity, and in bonds
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Speaker 1: of the earth. The decree has gone forth to bind
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Speaker 1: you for all the days of the world, and that
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Speaker 1: previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons,
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Speaker 1: and you shall have no pleasure in them. But they
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Speaker 1: shall fall before you by the sword, and your petition
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Speaker 1: on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on
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Speaker 1: your own, even though you weep and pray and speak
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Speaker 1: all the words contained in the writing which I have written.
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Speaker 1: And the vision was shown to me. Thus behold, in
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Speaker 1: the vision, clouds invited me, and a mist summoned me,
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Speaker 1: and the course of the stars, and the lightnings sped
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Speaker 1: and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused
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Speaker 1: me to fly and lifted me upward and bore me
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Speaker 1: into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh
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Speaker 1: to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded
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Speaker 1: by tongues of fire, and it began to affright me.
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Speaker 1: And I went into the tongues of fire, and drew
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Speaker 1: nigh to a large house which was built of crystals.
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Speaker 1: And the walls of the house were like a tessellated
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Speaker 1: floor made of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal.
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Speaker 1: Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and
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Speaker 1: the lightnings, and between them were fiery Cherubim, and their
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Speaker 1: heaven was clear as water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls,
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Speaker 1: and its portals blazed with fire. And I entered into
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Speaker 1: that house, and it was hot as fire and cold
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Speaker 1: as ice. There were no delights of life therein fear
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Speaker 1: covered me, and trembling got hold upon me. And as
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Speaker 1: I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face, and
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Speaker 1: I beheld a vision, and lo, there was a second house,
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Speaker 1: greater than the former. And the entire portal stood open
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Speaker 1: before me, and it was built of flames of fire,
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Speaker 1: and in every respect it so excelled in splendor and
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Speaker 1: magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its
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Speaker 1: splendor and its extent. And its floor was of fire,
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Speaker 1: and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars,
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Speaker 1: and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked
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Speaker 1: and saw therein a lofty throne. Its appearance was as
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Speaker 1: crystal in the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and
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Speaker 1: there was the vision of Cherubim. And from underneath the
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Speaker 1: throne came streams of flaming fire, so that I could
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Speaker 1: not look thereon. And the great glory sat thereon, and
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Speaker 1: his raiment shone more brightly than the sun, and was
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Speaker 1: whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter
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Speaker 1: and could behold his face by reason of the magnificence
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Speaker 1: and glory, and no flesh could behold him. The flaming
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Speaker 1: fire was round about him, and a great fire stood
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Speaker 1: before him, and none around could draw nigh him. Ten
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Speaker 1: thousand times ten thousand stood before him. Yet he needed
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Speaker 1: no counselor. And the most holy ones who were nigh
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Speaker 1: to him did not leave by night, nor depart from him.
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Speaker 1: And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord called me with his own mouth and
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Speaker 1: said to me, come hither, Enoch, and hear my word.
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Speaker 1: And one of the holy ones came to me and
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Speaker 1: waked me, and he made me rise up and approach
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Speaker 1: the door. And I bowed my face downwards Chapter fifteen.
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Speaker 1: And he answered and said to me, and I heard
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Speaker 1: his voice, fear not, Enoch, thou righteous men and scribe
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Speaker 1: of righteousness, approach hither, and hear my voice, and go,
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Speaker 1: say to the watchers of heaven who have sent thee
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Speaker 1: to intercede for them, You should intercede for men, and
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Speaker 1: not men for you. Wherefore have ye left the high,
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Speaker 1: holy and eternal heaven and lain with women, and defiled
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Speaker 1: yourselves with the daughters of men, and taken to yourselves wives,
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Speaker 1: and done like the children of earth and begotten giant,
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Speaker 1: says your sons. And though you were holy, spiritual, living
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Speaker 1: the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood
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Speaker 1: of women, and have begotten children with the blood of flesh.
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Speaker 1: And as the children of men have lusted after flesh
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Speaker 1: and blood, as those also do who die and perish.
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Speaker 1: Therefore have I given them wives also that they might
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Speaker 1: impregnate them and beget children by them, that thus nothing
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Speaker 1: might be wanting to them on earth. But you were
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Speaker 1: formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all
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Speaker 1: generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed
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Speaker 1: wives for you. For as for the spiritual ones of
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Speaker 1: the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. And now the
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Speaker 1: giants who are produced from the spirits and flesh shall
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Speaker 1: be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the
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Speaker 1: earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from
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Speaker 1: their bodies, because they are born from men, and from
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Speaker 1: the Holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin. They
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Speaker 1: shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall
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Speaker 1: they be called, as for the spirits of heaven. In
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Speaker 1: heaven shall be their dwelling, But as for the spirits
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Speaker 1: of the earth, which were born upon the earth, on
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Speaker 1: the earth shall be their dwelling. And the spirits of
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Speaker 1: the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work
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Speaker 1: destruction on the earth, and cause trouble. They take no food,
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Speaker 1: but nevertheless hunger and thirst and cause offenses. And these
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Speaker 1: spirits shall rise up against the children of men and
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Speaker 1: against the women, because they have proceeded from them Chapter sixteen,
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Speaker 1: from the days of the slaughter and destruction and death
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Speaker 1: of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits,
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Speaker 1: having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgment. Thus shall
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Speaker 1: they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgment,
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Speaker 1: in which the age shall be consummated over the watchers
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Speaker 1: and the godless Yea shall be holy consummated. And now
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Speaker 1: as to the watchers who have sent thee to intercede
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Speaker 1: for them who had been aforetime in heaven. Say to them,
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Speaker 1: you have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had
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Speaker 1: not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones,
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Speaker 1: and these and the hardness of your hearts you have
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Speaker 1: made known to the women. And through these mysteries, women
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Speaker 1: and men work much evil on earth. Say to them,
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Speaker 1: therefore you have no peace. Chapters seventeen through thirty seven.
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Speaker 1: Enoch's Journey through the Earth and Shiole chapters seventeen through nineteen.
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Speaker 1: The first journey, chapter seventeen. And they took and brought
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Speaker 1: me to a place in which those who were there
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Speaker 1: were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared
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Speaker 1: as men. And they brought me to the place of darkness,
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Speaker 1: and to a mountain, the point of whose summit reached
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Speaker 1: to heaven. And I saw the places of the luminaries,
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Speaker 1: and the treasuries of the stars, and of the thunder,
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Speaker 1: and in the uttermost depths where were a fiery bow
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Speaker 1: and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword, and
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Speaker 1: all the lightnings. And they took me to the living
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Speaker 1: waters and to the fire of the west, which receives
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Speaker 1: every setting of the sun. And I came to a
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Speaker 1: river of fire, in which the fire flows like water,
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Speaker 1: and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west.
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Speaker 1: I saw the great rivers, and came to the great river,
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Speaker 1: and to the great darkness, and went to the place
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Speaker 1: where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the
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Speaker 1: darkness of winter, and the place whence all the waters
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Speaker 1: of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all
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Speaker 1: the rivers of the Earth, and the mouth of the
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Speaker 1: Deep Chapter eighteen. I saw the treasuries of all the winds.
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Speaker 1: I saw how He had furnished with them the whole
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Speaker 1: creation and the firm foundation of the Earth. And I
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Speaker 1: saw the cornerstone of the Earth. I saw the four
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Speaker 1: winds which bear the earth and the firmament of the heaven.
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Speaker 1: And I saw how the winds stretched out the vaults
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Speaker 1: of Heaven and have their station between Heaven and Earth.
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Speaker 1: These are the pillars of the Heaven. And I saw
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Speaker 1: the winds of Heaven, which turn and bring the circumference
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Speaker 1: of the sun and all the stars to their setting.
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Speaker 1: I saw the winds on the earth, carrying the clouds.
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Speaker 1: I saw the paths of the angels. I saw at
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Speaker 1: the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above.
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Speaker 1: And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day
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Speaker 1: and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones,
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Speaker 1: three towards the east and three towards the south. And
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Speaker 1: as for those towards the east, one was of colored stone,
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Speaker 1: and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those
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Speaker 1: towards the south of red stone. But the middle one
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Speaker 1: reached to heaven like the throne of God of alabaster,
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Speaker 1: and the summit of the throne was of sapphire. And
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Speaker 1: I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains is
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Speaker 1: a region the end of the great Earth. There the
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Speaker 1: heavens were completed. And I saw a deep abyss with
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Speaker 1: columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns
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Speaker 1: of fire fall, which were beyond measure, alike towards the
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Speaker 1: height and towards the depth. And beyond that abyss, I
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Speaker 1: saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above,
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Speaker 1: and no firmly founded earth beneath it. There was no
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Speaker 1: water upon it, and no birds. But it was a
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Speaker 1: waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars, like
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Speaker 1: great burning mountains, and to me when I inquired regarding them,
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Speaker 1: the Angel said, this place is the end of heaven
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Speaker 1: and earth. This has become a prison for the stars
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Speaker 1: and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll
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Speaker 1: over the fire. Are they which have transgressed the commandment
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Speaker 1: of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because
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Speaker 1: they did not come forth at their appointed times. And
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Speaker 1: he was wroth with them and bound them until the
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Speaker 1: time when their guilt should be consummated, even for ten
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Speaker 1: thousand years. Chapter nineteen, and Uriel said to me, here
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Speaker 1: shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women,
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Speaker 1: and their spirits, assuming many different forms, are defiling mankind,
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Speaker 1: and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods.
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Speaker 1: Here shall they stand till the day of the great
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Speaker 1: judgment in which they shall be judged, till they are
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Speaker 1: made an end of And the women also of the
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Speaker 1: angels who went astray, shall become sirens. And I, Enoch
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Speaker 1: alone saw the vision the ends of all things, And
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Speaker 1: no man shall see as I have seen. End of
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Speaker 1: Section three, Chapters twenty through twenty five. Chapter twenty Name
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Speaker 1: and function of the seven arch angels. And these are
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Speaker 1: the names of the Holy Angels. Who watch. Uriel, one
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Speaker 1: of the Holy Angels who is over the world and
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Speaker 1: over Tatarus. Raphael, one of the Holy Angels who is
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Speaker 1: over the spirits of men, Ragua one of the Holy
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Speaker 1: Angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael,
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Speaker 1: one of the Holy Angels to wit he is set
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Speaker 1: over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Sarkrel,
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Speaker 1: one of the Holy Angels who is set over the
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Speaker 1: spirits who sin in the spirit Gabriel, one of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Angels who is over Paradise and the serpents in
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Speaker 1: the Cherubim. Ramael one of the Holy Angels whom God
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Speaker 1: set over those who rise. Chapter twenty one, Preliminary and
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Speaker 1: final place of punishment of the fallen Angels. Stars. And
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Speaker 1: I proceeded to where things were chaotic, and I saw
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Speaker 1: there something horrible. I saw neither a heaven above nor
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Speaker 1: firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And
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Speaker 1: there I saw seven stars of the Heaven bound together
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Speaker 1: in it like great mountains, and burning with fire. Then
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Speaker 1: I said, for what sinner they bound? And on what
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Speaker 1: account have they been cast in? Hither? Then said Urie,
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Speaker 1: one of the Holy angels, who was with me and
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Speaker 1: was chief over them, and said, Enoch, why dost thou ask?
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Speaker 1: And why art thou eager for the truth? These are
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Speaker 1: the number of the stars of heaven which have transgressed
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Speaker 1: the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till
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Speaker 1: ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins are consummated.
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Speaker 1: And from thence I went to another place, which was
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Speaker 1: still more horrible than the former. And I saw a
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Speaker 1: horrible thing, a great fire there, which burned and blazed,
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Speaker 1: and the place was cleft as far as the abyss,
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Speaker 1: being full of great descending columns of fire. Neither its
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Speaker 1: extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture.
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Speaker 1: Then I said, how fearful is this place? And how
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Speaker 1: terrible to look upon? Then Uriel answered me, one of
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Speaker 1: the holy angels who was with me, and said, unto me, Enoch,
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Speaker 1: why hast thou such fear and affright? And I answered,
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Speaker 1: because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle
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Speaker 1: of the pain. And he's said unto me, this place
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Speaker 1: is the prison of the angels, and here they will
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Speaker 1: be imprisoned forever. Chapter twenty two, Shiel or the Underworld
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Speaker 1: and thence I went to another place, and he showed
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Speaker 1: me in the west another great high mountain and of
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Speaker 1: hard rock, and there was in it four hollow places,
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Speaker 1: deep and wide, and very smooth. How smooth are the
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Speaker 1: hollow places and deep and dark to look at. Then
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Speaker 1: Raphael answered one of the holy angels who was with me,
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Speaker 1: and said, unto me, these hollow places have been created
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Speaker 1: for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls
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Speaker 1: of the dead should assemble Therein yea, that all the
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Speaker 1: souls of the children of men should assemble here. And
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Speaker 1: these places have been made to receive them till the
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Speaker 1: day of their judgment, until their appointed period, till the
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Speaker 1: period appointed till the great judgment comes upon them. I
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Speaker 1: saw the spirits of the children of men who were dead,
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Speaker 1: and their voice went forth to heaven and made suit.
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Speaker 1: Then I asked Rafael, the angel who was with me,
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Speaker 1: and I said, unto him, this spirit, whose is it?
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Speaker 1: Whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit. And he answered me, saying,
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Speaker 1: this is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom
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Speaker 1: his brother Cain slew. And he makes his suit against
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Speaker 1: him till his seed is destroyed from the face of
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Speaker 1: the earth. And his seed is annihilated from amongst the
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Speaker 1: seed of men. Then I asked, regarding it, and regarding
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Speaker 1: all the hollow places, why as one separated from the other.
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Speaker 1: And he answered me and said, unto me, these three
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Speaker 1: have been made that the spirits of the dead might
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Speaker 1: be separated. And such a division has been made for
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Speaker 1: the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the
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Speaker 1: bright spring of water. And such has been made for sinners,
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Speaker 1: when they die and are buried in the earth, and
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Speaker 1: judgment has not been executed on them in their lifetime.
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Speaker 1: Here their spirit shall be set apart in this great
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Speaker 1: pain till the great day of judgment and punishment and
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Speaker 1: torment of those who curse forever and retur for their
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Speaker 1: spirits there he shall bind them forever. And such a
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Speaker 1: division has been made for the spirits of those who
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Speaker 1: make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction when
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Speaker 1: they were slain in the days of the sinners. Such
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Speaker 1: has been made for the spirits of men who were
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Speaker 1: not righteous, but sinners who were complete in transgression, And
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Speaker 1: of the transgressors they shall be companions. But their spirits
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Speaker 1: shall not be slain in the day of judgment, nor
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Speaker 1: shall they be raised. From thence, then I blessed the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Glory, and said, blessed be my Lord, the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Righteousness, who ruleth forever Chapter twenty three. The
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Speaker 1: fire that deals with the luminaries of heaven. From thence
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Speaker 1: I went to another place, to the west of the
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Speaker 1: ends of the earth, and I saw a burning fire
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Speaker 1: which ran without resting, and paused not from its course
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Speaker 1: day or night, but ran regularly. And I ask saying,
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Speaker 1: what is this which rests not? Then Braguell, one of
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Speaker 1: the Holy angels, who was with me, answered me and said,
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Speaker 1: unto me, this course of fire which thou hast seen
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Speaker 1: is the fire in the west, which persecutes all the
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Speaker 1: luminaries of heaven chapter twenty four and twenty five, the
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Speaker 1: seven mountains in the northwest, and the Tree of Life
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Speaker 1: chapter twenty four. And from thence I went to another
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Speaker 1: place of the earth, and he showed me a mountain
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Speaker 1: range of fire, which burnt day and night. And I
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Speaker 1: went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains, all differing
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Speaker 1: each from the other, and the stones thereof were magnificent
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Speaker 1: and beautiful, magnificent as a whole of glorious appearance, and
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Speaker 1: fair exterior, three towards the east, one founded on the other,
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Speaker 1: and three towards the south, one upon the other, and
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Speaker 1: deep rough ravines, no one of which joined with any other.
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Speaker 1: And the Seventh Mountain was in the midst of these,
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Speaker 1: and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of
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Speaker 1: a throne. And fragrant trees encircled the throne, and amongst
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Speaker 1: them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt.
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Speaker 1: Neither was any among them, nor were others like it.
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Speaker 1: It had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves
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Speaker 1: and blooms and wood whither not forever. And its fruit
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Speaker 1: is beautiful, and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm.
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Speaker 1: Then I said, how beautiful is this tree? And fragrant?
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Speaker 1: And its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful
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Speaker 1: in appearance. Then answered Michael, one of the holy un
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Speaker 1: honored angels, who was with me and was their leader,
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty five. And he said, unto me, Enoch, why
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Speaker 1: dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree,
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Speaker 1: And why dost thou wish to learn the truth? Then
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Speaker 1: I answered him, saying I wish to know about everything,
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Speaker 1: but especially about this tree. And he answered, saying, this
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Speaker 1: high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like
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Speaker 1: the throne of God, is his throne where the Holy
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Speaker 1: Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit,
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Speaker 1: when he shall come down to visit the earth with goodness.
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Speaker 1: And as for this fragrant tree, no mortal is permitted
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Speaker 1: to touch it till the Great Judgment, when he shall
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Speaker 1: take vengeance on all and bring every thing to its
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Speaker 1: consummation forever. It shall then be given to the righteous
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Speaker 1: and holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect.
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Speaker 1: It shall be transplanted to the Holy Place, to the
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Speaker 1: temple of the Lord, the Eternal King. Then shall they
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Speaker 1: rejoice with joy and be glad. And into the Holy
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Speaker 1: Place shall they enter, and its fragrance shall be in
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Speaker 1: their bones, and they shall live a long life on earth,
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Speaker 1: such as thy fathers lived, and in their days shall
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Speaker 1: no sorrow or plague, or torment or calamity touched them.
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Speaker 1: Then I bless the God of Glory, the Eternal King,
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Speaker 1: who hath prepared such things for the righteous, and hath
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Speaker 1: created them and promised to give to them. And of
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Speaker 1: section four, Section five chapters twenty six through thirty six.
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Speaker 1: Jerusalem and the Mountains and Streams Chapter twenty six. And
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Speaker 1: I went from thence to the middle of the earth,
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Speaker 1: and I saw a blessed place, in which there were
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Speaker 1: trees with branches abiding, and blooming of a dismembered tree.
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Speaker 1: And there I saw a holy mountain. And underneath the mountain,
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Speaker 1: to the east there was a stream, and it flowed
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Speaker 1: towards the south. And I saw towards the east another
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Speaker 1: mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and
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Speaker 1: narrow ravine. In it also ran a stream underneath the mountain.
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Speaker 1: And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower
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Speaker 1: than the former, and of small elevation, and a ravine
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Speaker 1: deep and dry between them. And another deep and dry
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Speaker 1: ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains. And
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Speaker 1: all the ravines were deep and narrow, being formed of
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Speaker 1: hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them. And
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Speaker 1: I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I marveled very much. Chapter twenty seven. The purp of
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Speaker 1: the accursed valley then said I, for what object is
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Speaker 1: this blessed land which is entirely filled with trees, and
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Speaker 1: this accursed valley between. Then Uriel, one of the holy angels,
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Speaker 1: who was with me, answered and said, this accursed valley
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Speaker 1: is for those who are accursed. Forever. Here shall all
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Speaker 1: the accursed be gathered together, who utter with their lips
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Speaker 1: against the Lord unseemly words, and of his glory speak
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Speaker 1: hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here
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Speaker 1: shall be their place of judgment. In the last days.
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Speaker 1: There shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgment,
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Speaker 1: in the presence of the Righteous Forever. Here shall the
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Speaker 1: merciful bless the Lord of Glory, the eternal King, in
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Speaker 1: the days of judgment over the former. They shall bless
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Speaker 1: him for the mercy and accordance with which he has
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Speaker 1: assigned them their lot. Then I bless the Lord of
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Speaker 1: Glory and set forth his glory and lauded him gloriously.
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight through thirty three. Journey to the East
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Speaker 1: chapter twenty eight and thence I went toward the east,
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Speaker 1: into the midst of the mountain range of the desert,
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Speaker 1: and I saw a wilderness, and it was solitary, full
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Speaker 1: of trees and plants, and water gushed forth from above,
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Speaker 1: rushing like a copious watercourse which flowed towards the northwest.
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Speaker 1: It caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty nine. And thence I went to another place
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Speaker 1: in the desert and approached to the east of this
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Speaker 1: mountain range, and there I saw aromatic trees exhaling the
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Speaker 1: fragrance of frankincense and myrhr, and the trees also were
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Speaker 1: similar to the almond tree Chapter thirty And beyond these
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Speaker 1: I went afar to the east, and I saw another place,
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Speaker 1: a valley full of water, and therein there was a
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Speaker 1: tree the color of fragrant trees, such as the mastic.
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Speaker 1: And on the size of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon.
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Speaker 1: And beyond these I proceeded to the east Chapter thirty one,
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Speaker 1: and I saw other men mountains, and amongst them were
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Speaker 1: groves of trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar,
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Speaker 1: which is named Sarara and galbanum. And beyond these mountains
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Speaker 1: I saw another mountain to the east of the ends
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Speaker 1: of the earth, whereon were allow trees, and all the
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Speaker 1: trees were full of stactate, being like almond trees, And
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Speaker 1: when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odor,
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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty two. And after these fragrant odors, as I
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Speaker 1: looked toward the north over the mountains, I saw seven
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Speaker 1: mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees, and cinnamon
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Speaker 1: and pepper. And thence I went over the summits of
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Speaker 1: all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth,
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Speaker 1: and passed above the Erythrian Sea, and went far from it,
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Speaker 1: and passed over the angel Zalutiel. And I came to
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Speaker 1: the garden of Righteousness, and saw beyond those trees, many
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Speaker 1: large trees growing there, and of goodly fragrance, large, very
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Speaker 1: beautiful and glorious, and the tree of wisdom, whereof they eat,
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Speaker 1: and no great wisdom. That tree is in height like
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Speaker 1: the fir, and its leaves are like those of the
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Speaker 1: carab tree, and its fruit is like the clusters of
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Speaker 1: the vine, very beautiful, and the fragrance of the tree
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Speaker 1: penetrates afar. Then I said, how beautiful is the tree,
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Speaker 1: and how attractive is its look. Then Raphael, the Holy Angel,
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Speaker 1: who was with me, answered me and said, this is
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Speaker 1: the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old in years,
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Speaker 1: and thy aged mother, who were before thee have eaten,
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Speaker 1: and they learned wisdom, and their eyes were opened, and
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Speaker 1: they knew that they were naked, and they were driven
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Speaker 1: out of the garden Chapter thirty three. And from thence
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Speaker 1: I went to the ends of the earth, and saw
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Speaker 1: there great beasts, and each differed from the other. And
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Speaker 1: I saw birds, also differing in appearance and beauty and voice,
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Speaker 1: the one differing from the other. And to the east
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Speaker 1: of those beasts, I saw the ends of the earth,
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Speaker 1: where on the heaven rests, and the portals of the
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Speaker 1: heavens open, and I saw how the stars of heaven
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Speaker 1: come forth. And I counted the portals out of which
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Speaker 1: they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each
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Speaker 1: individual star by itself, according to their number, and their names,
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Speaker 1: their courses, and their positions, and their times and their months.
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Speaker 1: As Uriel, the Holy Angel who was with me, showed me.
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Speaker 1: He showed all things to me and wrote them down
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Speaker 1: for me. Also their names he wrote for me, and
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Speaker 1: their laws and their companies Chapter thirty four to thirty five.
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Speaker 1: Enox Journey to the North chapter thirty four. And from
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Speaker 1: thence I went towards the north, to the ends of
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Speaker 1: the earth, and there I saw a great and glorious
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Speaker 1: device at the ends of the whole earth. And here
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Speaker 1: I saw three portals of Heaven open in the heaven.
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Speaker 1: Through each of them proceed north winds. When they blow
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Speaker 1: there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. And
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Speaker 1: out of the one portal they blow for good. But
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Speaker 1: when they blow through the other two portals, it is
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Speaker 1: with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow
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Speaker 1: with violence, Chapter thirty five. And from thence I went
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Speaker 1: towards the west, to the ends of the earth, and
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Speaker 1: I saw there three portals of the Heaven open, such
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Speaker 1: as I had seen in the east, the same number
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Speaker 1: of portals and the same number of outlets. Chapter thirty six.
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Speaker 1: Journey to the south, And from thence I went to
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Speaker 1: the south to the ends of the Earth, and I
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Speaker 1: saw there three open portals of the Heaven. And thence
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Speaker 1: there came dew, rain, and wind. And from thence I
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Speaker 1: went to the east to the ends of the heaven,
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Speaker 1: and saw here the three eastern portals of Heaven open,
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Speaker 1: and small portals above them. Through each of these small
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Speaker 1: portals passed the stars of Heaven and run their course
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Speaker 1: to the west on the path which is shown to them,
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Speaker 1: And as often as I saw, I blessed always the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Glory. And I continued to bless the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Glory, who has wrought great and glorious wonders, to
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Speaker 1: show the greatness of his work to the angels and
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Speaker 1: to spirits and to men, that they might praise his
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Speaker 1: work and all his creation, that they might see the
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Speaker 1: work of his might, and praise the great work of
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Speaker 1: his hands, and bless him forever. End of Section five,
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Speaker 1: chapters thirty seven to forty four. The Parables thirty seven
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Speaker 1: to seventy one, Chapter thirty seven. The second vision which
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Speaker 1: he saw, the vision of wisdom which Enoch, the son
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Speaker 1: of Jared, the son of Mahalal, the son of Canaan,
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Speaker 1: the son of Enus, the son of Seth, the son
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Speaker 1: of Adam, saw. And this is the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: words of wisdom, which I lifted up my voice to
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Speaker 1: speak and say to those which dwell on earth, hear ye,
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Speaker 1: men of old time, and see ye that come after
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Speaker 1: the words of the Holy One, which I will speak
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Speaker 1: before the Lord of spirits. It were better to declare
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Speaker 1: them only to the men of old time, but even
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Speaker 1: from those that come after. We will not withhold the
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Speaker 1: beginning of wisdom till the present day. Such wisdom has
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Speaker 1: never been given by the Lord of Spirits, as I
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Speaker 1: have received according to my insight, according to the good
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Speaker 1: pleasure of the Lord of Spirits, by whom the lot
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Speaker 1: of eternal life has been given to me. Now three
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Speaker 1: parables were imparted to me, and I lifted up my
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Speaker 1: voice and recounted them to those that dwell on the
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Speaker 1: earth thirty seven to forty four. The first parable thirty
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Speaker 1: eight the coming judgment of the wicked. The first parable,
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Speaker 1: when the congregation of the Righteous shall appear, and sinners
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Speaker 1: shall be judged for their sins, and shall be driven
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Speaker 1: from the face of the earth. And when the righteous
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Speaker 1: one shall appear before the eyes of the righteous, whose
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Speaker 1: elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits, and light
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Speaker 1: shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell
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Speaker 1: on the earth. Where then will be the dwelling of
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Speaker 1: the sinners, And where the resting place of those who
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Speaker 1: have denied the Lord of Spirits. It had been good
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Speaker 1: for them if they had not been born. When the
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Speaker 1: secrets of the righteous shall be revealed, and the sinner judged,
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Speaker 1: and the godless driven from the presence of the Righteous
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Speaker 1: and Elect. From that time, those that possess the earth
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Speaker 1: shall no longer be powerful and exalted, and they shall
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Speaker 1: not be able to behold the face of the Holy.
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Speaker 1: For the Lord of Spirits has caused his light to
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Speaker 1: appear on the face of the Holy, Righteous and Elect.
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Speaker 1: Then shall the kings and the mighty perish and be
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Speaker 1: given into the hands of the Righteous and Holy. And
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Speaker 1: thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits, for their life is at an end. Thirty nine.
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Speaker 1: The abode of the Righteous and of the elect one
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Speaker 1: the praises of the blessed. And it shall come to
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Speaker 1: pass in those days that elect and holy children will
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Speaker 1: descend from the high heaven, and their seed will become
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Speaker 1: one with the children of men. And in those days
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Speaker 1: Enoch received books of zeal and wrath, and books of
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Speaker 1: disquiet and expulsion, And mercy shall not be accorded to them,
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Speaker 1: saith the Lord of Spirits. And in those days a
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Speaker 1: whirlwind carried me off from the earth and set me
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Speaker 1: down at the end of the heavens. And there I
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Speaker 1: saw another vision, the dwelling places of the Holy and
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Speaker 1: the resting places of the Righteous. Here mine eyes saw
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Speaker 1: their dwellings with His righteous angels, and their resting places
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Speaker 1: with the Holy, and they petitioned and interceded and prayed
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Speaker 1: for the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them
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Speaker 1: as water, and mercy like dew upon the earth. Thus
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Speaker 1: it is among them forever endeavor. And in that place
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Speaker 1: mine eyes saw the Elect, one of righteousness and of faith,
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Speaker 1: and I saw his dwelling place under the wings of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
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Speaker 1: and the righteous and elect shall be without number before
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Speaker 1: him forever endeavor. And all the righteous and elect before
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Speaker 1: him shall be strong as fiery lights, and their mouths
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Speaker 1: shall be full of blessing, and their lips extol the
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord of Spirits, and righteousness before him
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Speaker 1: shall never fail, and uprightness shall never fail before him.
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Speaker 1: There I wished to dwell, and my spirit longed for
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Speaker 1: that dwelling place. And there heretofore hath been my portion,
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Speaker 1: For so has it been established concerning me before the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits. In those days I praised and extolled
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Speaker 1: the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and praises,
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Speaker 1: because he hath destined me for blessing and glory, according
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Speaker 1: to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. For
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Speaker 1: a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I
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Speaker 1: blessed him and praised him, saying, blessed is he, and
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Speaker 1: may he be blessed from the beginning and forevermore. And
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Speaker 1: before him there is no ceasing. He knows before the
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Speaker 1: world was created, what is forever and what will be
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Speaker 1: from generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless thee.
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Speaker 1: They stand before Thy glory and bless praise and extol, saying, Holy, Holy,
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Speaker 1: Holy is the Lord of Spirits. He filleth the earth
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Speaker 1: with spirits. And here my eyes saw all those who
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Speaker 1: sleep not. They stand before him and bless and say,
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Speaker 1: blessed be thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: forever and ever. And my face was changed, for I
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Speaker 1: could no longer behold Chapter forty to forty one two
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Speaker 1: the Four Archangels, Chapter forty and after that I saw
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Speaker 1: thousands of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. I
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Speaker 1: saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning who stood before
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. And on the four sides of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits, I saw four presences different from
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Speaker 1: those that sleep not, and I learnt their names. For
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Speaker 1: the Angel that went with me made known to me
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Speaker 1: their names, and showed me all the hidden things. And
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Speaker 1: I heard the voices of those four presences as they
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Speaker 1: uttered praises before the Lord of Glory. The first voice
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Speaker 1: blesses the Lord of Spirits forever and ever. And the
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Speaker 1: second voice I heard, blessing the elect one and the
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Speaker 1: elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. And
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Speaker 1: the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those
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Speaker 1: who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name
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Speaker 1: of the Lord of Spirits. And I heard the fourth
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Speaker 1: voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come
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Speaker 1: before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell
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Speaker 1: on the earth. After that, I asked the Angel of Peace,
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Speaker 1: who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden,
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Speaker 1: who are these four presences which I have seen, and
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Speaker 1: whose words I have heard and written down? And he
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Speaker 1: said to me, the first is Michael, the merciful and
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Speaker 1: long suffering, And the second, who has set over all
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Speaker 1: the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men,
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Speaker 1: is Raphael. And the third, who is said over all
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Speaker 1: the powers is Gabriel. And the fourth who has set
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Speaker 1: over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life,
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Speaker 1: is named Fanuel. And these are the four angels of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits, and the four voices I heard
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Speaker 1: in those days, Chapter forty one. And after that I
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Speaker 1: saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the
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Speaker 1: kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are
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Speaker 1: weighed in the balance. And there I saw the mansions
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Speaker 1: of the elect and the mansions of the Holy. And
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Speaker 1: mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence,
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Speaker 1: which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and
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Speaker 1: being dragged off, And they could not abide because of
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Speaker 1: the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits forty one,
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Speaker 1: verses three through nine. Astronomical secrets. And there mine eyes
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Speaker 1: saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder,
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Speaker 1: and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided
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Speaker 1: to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the
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Speaker 1: clouds and dew. And there I saw from whence they
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Speaker 1: proceed in that place, and from whence they saturate the
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Speaker 1: dusty earth. And there I saw closed chambers, out of
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Speaker 1: which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail
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Speaker 1: and winds, the chamber of the mist and of the clouds,
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Speaker 1: and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the world. And I saw the chambers of
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Speaker 1: the Sun and Moon. Whence they proceed, and whither they
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Speaker 1: come again, and their glorious return, And how one is
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Speaker 1: superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how
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Speaker 1: they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing
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Speaker 1: to their orbit, and they take nothing from it. And
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Speaker 1: they keep faith with each other in accordance with the
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Speaker 1: oath by which they are bound together. And first the
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Speaker 1: Sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the
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Speaker 1: commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is his name,
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Speaker 1: forever and eavor. And after that I saw the hidden
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Speaker 1: and the visible path of the Moon. And she accomplishes
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Speaker 1: the course of her path in that place by day
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Speaker 1: and by night, the one holding a position opposite to
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Speaker 1: the other before the Lord of Spirits. And they give
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Speaker 1: thanks and praise and rest not for unto them is
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Speaker 1: their thanksgiving rest for the sunshine age is oft for
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Speaker 1: a blessing or a curse. And the course of the
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Speaker 1: path of the moon is light to the righteous, and
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Speaker 1: darkness to the sinners, in the name of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: who made a separation between the light and the darkness,
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Speaker 1: and divided the spirits of men and strengthened the spirits
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Speaker 1: of the righteous, in the name of His righteousness. For
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Speaker 1: no angel hinders, and no power is able to hinder.
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Speaker 1: For he appoints a judge for them all, and he
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Speaker 1: judges them all before him. Forty two the dwelling places
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Speaker 1: of Wisdom and of unrighteousness. Wisdom found no place where
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Speaker 1: she might dwell. Then a dwelling place was assigned her
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Speaker 1: in the heavens. Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling
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Speaker 1: among the children of men, and found no dwelling place.
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Speaker 1: Wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among
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Speaker 1: the angels. And Unrighteousness went forth from her chambers, whom
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Speaker 1: she sought not she found and dwelt with them as
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Speaker 1: rain in a desert, and do on a thirsty land.
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Speaker 1: To forty four astronomical secrets. And I saw other lightnings
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Speaker 1: and the stars of heaven. And I saw how he
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Speaker 1: called them all by their names, and they hearkened unto him.
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Speaker 1: And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance,
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Speaker 1: according to their proportions of light. I saw the width
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Speaker 1: of their spaces, and the day of their appearing, and
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Speaker 1: how their revolution produces lightning. And I saw their revolution
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Speaker 1: according to the number of the angels, and how they
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Speaker 1: keep faith with each other. And I asked the angel
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Speaker 1: who went with me, who showed me what was hidden,
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Speaker 1: what are these? And he said to me, the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic, meaning literally their parable.
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Speaker 1: These are the names of the Holy who dwell in
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Speaker 1: the earth and believe in the name of the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits forever endeavor. Chapter forty four. Also another phenomenon
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Speaker 1: I sign regard to the lightnings, how some of the
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Speaker 1: stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their
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Speaker 1: new form, and of section six, chapters forty five through
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Speaker 1: fifty nine, Chapters forty five through forty seven. The second
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Speaker 1: parable the lot of the Apostates, the New Heaven and
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Speaker 1: the New Earth, chapter forty five. And this is the
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Speaker 1: second parable concerning those who deny the name of the
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Speaker 1: dwelling of the Holy Ones and the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: and into the heaven they shall not ascend and on
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Speaker 1: the earth, they shall not come. Such shall be the
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Speaker 1: lot of the sinners who have denied the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits, who are thus preserved for the
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Speaker 1: day of suffering and tribulation. On that day, mine elect
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Speaker 1: ones shall sit on the throne of Glory and shall
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Speaker 1: try their works, and their places of rest shall be innumerable,
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Speaker 1: and their souls shall grow strong within them. When they
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Speaker 1: see mine elect ones and those who have called upon
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Speaker 1: MY glorious name. Then will I cause mine elect one
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Speaker 1: to dwell among them. And I will transform the heaven
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Speaker 1: and make it an eternal blessing and light. And I
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Speaker 1: will transform the earth and make it a blessing. And
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Speaker 1: I will cause mine elect ones to dwell upon it.
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Speaker 1: But the sinners and evil doers shall not set foot thereon.
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Speaker 1: For I have provided and satisfied with peace my righteous ones,
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Speaker 1: and have caused them to dwell before me. But for
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Speaker 1: the sinners, there is judgment impending with me, so that
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Speaker 1: I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
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Speaker 1: Chapter forty six. The Head of Days and the Son
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Speaker 1: of Man Chapter forty six. And there I saw one
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Speaker 1: who had a head of days, and his head was
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Speaker 1: white like wool, and with him was another being whose
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Speaker 1: countenance had the appearance of a man, and his face
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Speaker 1: was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
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Speaker 1: And I asked the Angel who went with me and
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Speaker 1: showed me all the hidden things concerning that son of man,
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Speaker 1: who he was, and whence he was, and why he
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Speaker 1: went with the head of days. And he answered and said,
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Speaker 1: unto me, this is the son of Man who hath righteousness,
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Speaker 1: with who whom dwelleth righteousness, and who revealeth all the
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Speaker 1: treasures of that which is hidden, because the Lord of
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Speaker 1: spirits hath chosen him, and whose lot hath the pre
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Speaker 1: eminence before the Lord of spirits in uprightness forever. And
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Speaker 1: this son of Man, whom thou hast seen, shall raise
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Speaker 1: up the kings and the mighty from their seats, and
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Speaker 1: the strong from their thrones, and shall loosen the reins
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Speaker 1: of the strong, and break the teeth of the sinners.
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Speaker 1: And he shall put down the kings from their thrones
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Speaker 1: and kingdoms, because they do not extol and praise him,
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Speaker 1: nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
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Speaker 1: And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
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Speaker 1: and shall fill them with shame, and darkness shall be
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Speaker 1: their dwelling, and worms shall be their bed, and they
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Speaker 1: shall have no hope of rising from their beds, because
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Speaker 1: they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
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Speaker 1: And these are they who judge the stars of heaven,
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Speaker 1: and raise their hands against the most high, and tread
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Speaker 1: upon the earth and dwell upon it. And all their
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Speaker 1: de eds manifest on righteousness, and their power rests upon
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Speaker 1: their riches, and their faith is in the gods which
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Speaker 1: they have made with their hands. And they deny the
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord of Spirits, and they persecute the
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Speaker 1: houses of His congregations, and the faithful who hang upon
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Speaker 1: the name of the Lord of Spirits Chapter forty seven.
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Speaker 1: The prayer of the righteous for vengeance and their joy
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Speaker 1: at its coming chapter forty seven. And in those days
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Speaker 1: shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous and the
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Speaker 1: blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits. In those days the holy ones who dwell
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Speaker 1: above in the heavens shall unite with one voice and
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Speaker 1: supplicate and pray, and praise, and give thanks and bless
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Speaker 1: the name of the Lord of Spirits. On behalf of
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Speaker 1: the blood of the righteous which has been shed, and
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Speaker 1: that the prayer of the righteous may not be in
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Speaker 1: vain before the Lord of Spirits, that judgment may be
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Speaker 1: done unto them, and that they may not have to
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Speaker 1: suffer forever. In those days I saw the Head of Days,
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Speaker 1: when he seated himself upon the throne of his glory,
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Speaker 1: and the books of the Living were opened before him,
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Speaker 1: and all his host, which is in heaven above, and
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Speaker 1: his counselors stood before him, and the hearts of the
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Speaker 1: holy were filled with joy, because the number of the
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Speaker 1: righteous had been offered, and the prayer of the righteous
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Speaker 1: had been heard, and the blood of the righteous been
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Speaker 1: required before the Lord of Spirits Chapter forty eight. The
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Speaker 1: Fount of Righteousness, the Son of Man, the stay of
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Speaker 1: the righteous, judgment of the Kings and the Mighty chapter
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Speaker 1: forty eight. And in that place I saw the fountain
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Speaker 1: of righteousness, which was inexhaustible, and around it were many
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Speaker 1: fountains of wisdom, and all the thirsty drank of them
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Speaker 1: and were filled with wisdom. And their dwellings were with
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Speaker 1: the righteous and holy and elect. And at that hour
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Speaker 1: that Son of Man was named in the presence of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits and his name before the head
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Speaker 1: of days, yea before the sun and the signs were creed,
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Speaker 1: before the stars of the heaven were made. His name
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Speaker 1: was named before the Lord of Spirits. He shall be
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Speaker 1: estaff to the righteous, whereon to stay themselves and not fall.
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Speaker 1: And he shall be the light of the gentiles and
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Speaker 1: the hope of those who are troubled of heart. All
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Speaker 1: who dwell on earth shall fall down in worship before him,
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Speaker 1: and will praise and bless and celebrate with song the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits. And for this reason hath he been
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Speaker 1: chosen and hidden before him before the creation of the
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Speaker 1: world and forevermore. And the wisdom of the Lord of
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Speaker 1: Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and righteous, For
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Speaker 1: he hath preserved the lot of the righteous, because they
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Speaker 1: have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness, and have
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Speaker 1: hated all its works and ways, in the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. For in his name they are saved.
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Speaker 1: And according to His good pleasure hath it been in
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Speaker 1: regard to their life in these days downcast and countenance
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Speaker 1: shall the kings of the earth have become, and the
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Speaker 1: strong who possessed the land because of the works of
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Speaker 1: their hands, For on the day of their anguish and affliction,
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Speaker 1: they shall not be able to save themselves, And I
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Speaker 1: will give them over into the hands of mine elect
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Speaker 1: as straw and the fire. So shall they burn before
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Speaker 1: the face of the Holy, as lead in the water.
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Speaker 1: Shall they sink before the face of the Righteous, and
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Speaker 1: no trace of them shall any more be found. And
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Speaker 1: on the day of their affliction there shall be rest
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Speaker 1: on the earth, and before them they shall fall and
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Speaker 1: not rise again, and there shall be no one to
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Speaker 1: take them with his hands and raise them. For they
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Speaker 1: have denied the Lord of Spirits and tis anointed. The
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed. Chapter forty nine.
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Speaker 1: The power and wisdom of the elect one, Chapter forty nine.
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Speaker 1: For wisdom is poured out like water, and glory. Faileth
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Speaker 1: not before him for evermore, for he is mighty in
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Speaker 1: all the secrets of righteousness and unrighteousness shall disappear as
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Speaker 1: a shadow and have no continuance. Because the elect one
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Speaker 1: standeth before the Lord of Spirits, and his glory is
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Speaker 1: forever endeavor and his might unto all generations. And in
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Speaker 1: him dwells the spirit of wisdom, and the spirit which
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Speaker 1: gives insight, and the spirit of understanding and of might,
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Speaker 1: and the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
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Speaker 1: And he shall judge the secret things, and none shall
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Speaker 1: be able to utter a lying word before him, for
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Speaker 1: he is the elect one before the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: according to his good pleasure chapter fifty. The glorification and
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Speaker 1: victory of the Righteous, the repentance of the gentiles chapter fifty.
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Speaker 1: And in those days a change shall take place for
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Speaker 1: the holy and elect, and the light of days shall
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Speaker 1: abide upon them, and glory and honor shall turn to
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Speaker 1: the Holy on the day of affliction, on which evil
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Speaker 1: shall have been treasured up against the sinners, and the
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Speaker 1: righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits. And he will cause the others to witness this,
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Speaker 1: that they may repent and forego the works of their hands.
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Speaker 1: They shall have no honor through the name of the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits. Yet through his name shall they be saved.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,
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Speaker 1: for his compassion is great, and he is righteous also
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Speaker 1: in his judgment and in the presence of his glory.
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Speaker 1: Unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself at his judgment, the
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Speaker 1: unrepentance shall perish before him, and from henceforth I will
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Speaker 1: have no mercy on them, Saith the Lord of Spirits
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty one. The Resurrection of the Dead and the
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Speaker 1: separation by the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked,
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Speaker 1: chapter fifty one. And in those days shall the earth
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Speaker 1: also give back that which has been entrusted to it,
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Speaker 1: and Shiol also shall give back that which it is received,
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Speaker 1: and Hell shall give back that which it owes. For
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Speaker 1: in those days the elect One shall arise, and he
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Speaker 1: shall choose the righteous and wholly from among them, for
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Speaker 1: the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
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Speaker 1: And the elect One shall in those days sit on
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Speaker 1: my throne, and his mouth shall pour forth all the
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Speaker 1: secrets of wisdom and counsel, for the Lord of Spirits
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Speaker 1: hath given them to him, and hath glorified him. And
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Speaker 1: in those days shall the mountains leap like rams, and
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Speaker 1: the hills also shall skip like lambs, satisfied with milk,
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Speaker 1: And the faces of all the angels in heaven shall
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Speaker 1: be lighted up with joy, and the earth shall rejoice,
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Speaker 1: and the righteous shall dwell upon it, and the elect
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Speaker 1: shall walk thereon chapter fifty two, the Seven Metal Mountains,
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Speaker 1: and the elect one, chapter fifty two. And after those days,
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Speaker 1: in that place where I had seen all the visions
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Speaker 1: of that which is hidden, for I had been carried
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Speaker 1: off in a world, and they had borne me towards
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Speaker 1: the west. There mine eyes saw all the secret things
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Speaker 1: of heaven that shall be a mountain of iron, and
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Speaker 1: a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and
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Speaker 1: a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal,
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Speaker 1: and a mountain of lead. And I asked the Angel
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Speaker 1: who went with me, saying, what things are these which
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Speaker 1: I have seen in secret? And he said, unto me,
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Speaker 1: all these things which thou hast seen shall serve the
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Speaker 1: dominion of his anointed, that he may be potent and
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Speaker 1: mighty on the earth. And that Angel of Peace answered saying,
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Speaker 1: unto me, wait a little, and there shall be revealed
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Speaker 1: unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord
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Speaker 1: of spirits. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
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Speaker 1: the mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and
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Speaker 1: the mountain of silver, and the mountain of gold, and
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Speaker 1: the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,
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Speaker 1: All these shall be in the presence of the elect One,
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Speaker 1: as wax before the fire, and like the water which
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Speaker 1: streams down from above upon those mountains, And they shall
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Speaker 1: become powerless before his feet. And it shall come to
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Speaker 1: pass in those days that none shall be saved, either
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Speaker 1: by gold or by silver, and none be able to escape.
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Speaker 1: And there shall be no iron for war, nor shall
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Speaker 1: one clothe oneself with a breastplate. Bronze shall be of
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Speaker 1: no service, and tin shall be of no service, and
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Speaker 1: shall not be esteemed, and lead shall not be desired.
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Speaker 1: And all these things shall be denied and destroyed from
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Speaker 1: the surface of the earth, when the elect One shall
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Speaker 1: appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits, Chapter
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Speaker 1: fifty three and fifty four. The Valley of Judgment, the
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Speaker 1: Angels of Punishment, the communities of the elect One, Chapter
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Speaker 1: fifty three. There mine eyes saw a deep valley with
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Speaker 1: open mouths, And all who dwell on the earth and
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Speaker 1: sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents
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Speaker 1: in tokens of homage. But that deep valley shall not
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Speaker 1: become full, and their hands commit lawless deeds, and the
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Speaker 1: sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress. Yet the sinners
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Speaker 1: shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: and they shall be banished from off the face of
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Speaker 1: His earth, and they shall perish forever endeavor. For I
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Speaker 1: saw all the angels of punishment abiding there and preparing
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Speaker 1: all the instruments of Satan. And I asked the Angel
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Speaker 1: of Peace, who went with me, for whom are they
1:54:34
Speaker 1: preparing these instruments? And he said, unto me, they prepare
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Speaker 1: these for the kings and the Mighty of this earth,
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Speaker 1: that they may thereby be destroyed. And after this the
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Speaker 1: Righteous and elect One shall cause the house of his
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Speaker 1: congregation to appear. Henceforth they shall be no more hindered
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Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord of Spirits. And these
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Speaker 1: mountains shall not stand as the earth before his Righteousness,
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Speaker 1: but the hills shall be as a fountain of wa water,
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Speaker 1: and the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty four. And I looked and turned to another
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Speaker 1: part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley
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Speaker 1: with burning fire. And they brought the kings and the
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Speaker 1: Mighty and began to cast them into this deep valley.
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Speaker 1: And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments,
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Speaker 1: iron chains of immeasurable weight. And I asked the Angel
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Speaker 1: of Peace who went with me, saying for whom are
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Speaker 1: these chains being prepared? And he said, unto me, These
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Speaker 1: are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so that
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Speaker 1: they may take them and cast them into the abyss
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Speaker 1: of complete condemnation. And they shall cover their jaws with
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Speaker 1: rough stones, as the Lord of Spirits commanded, And Michael
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Speaker 1: and Gabriel, and Rafael and Fanul shall take hold of
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Speaker 1: them on that great day and cast them, on that
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Speaker 1: day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits
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Speaker 1: may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming
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Speaker 1: subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on earth.
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty four, verse seven through fifty five, verse two,
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Speaker 1: no Acic fragment on the first World Judgment. And in
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Speaker 1: those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: And he will open all the chambers of waters which
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Speaker 1: are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are
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Speaker 1: beneath the earth, and all the waters shall be joined
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Speaker 1: with the waters. That which is above the heavens is
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Speaker 1: the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth
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Speaker 1: is the feminine, and they shall destroy all who dwell
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Speaker 1: on the earth, and those who dwell under the ends
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Speaker 1: of the heaven. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness,
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Speaker 1: which they have wrought on the earth, then by these
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Speaker 1: shall they perish. Chapter fifty five. And after that the
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Speaker 1: Head of Days repented and said, in vain, have I
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Speaker 1: destroyed all who dwell on the earth, And he swear
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Speaker 1: by his great name. Henceforth I will not do so
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Speaker 1: to all who dwell on the earth. And I will
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Speaker 1: set a sign in the heaven, and this shall be
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Speaker 1: a pledge of good faith between me and them forever,
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Speaker 1: so long as Heaven is above the earth. And this
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Speaker 1: is in accordance with my command. Chapter fifty five, verse
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Speaker 1: three through fifty six, verse four. Final judgment of Azazel,
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Speaker 1: the Watchers and their children, when I have desired to
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Speaker 1: take hold of them by the hand of the angels
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Speaker 1: on the day of tribulation and pain, because of this,
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Speaker 1: I will cause my chastisement and my wrath to abide
1:57:28
Speaker 1: upon them. Saith, God, the Lord of spirits, You mighty
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Speaker 1: kings who dwell on the earth, you shall have to
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Speaker 1: behold mine. Elect one, how he sits on the throne
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Speaker 1: of Glory and judges, Azazel and all his associates, and
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Speaker 1: all his hosts, in the name of the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty six. And I saw there the hosts of
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Speaker 1: the angels going, and they held scourges and chains of
1:57:52
Speaker 1: iron and bronze. And I asked the Angel of Peace,
1:57:55
Speaker 1: who went with me, saying to whom are these who
1:57:58
Speaker 1: hold the s gorges going? And he said, unto me,
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Speaker 1: to their elect and beloved ones, that they may be
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Speaker 1: cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.
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Speaker 1: And then that valley shall be filled with their elect
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Speaker 1: and beloved and the days of their life shall be
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Speaker 1: at an end, and the days of their leading astray
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Speaker 1: shall not thenceforward be reckoned. Chapter fifty six, Verses five
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Speaker 1: through eight, Last struggle of Heathen powers against Israel. And
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Speaker 1: in those days the Angels shall return and hurl themselves
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Speaker 1: to the east upon the Parthians and Meads. They shall
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Speaker 1: stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest
1:58:35
Speaker 1: shall come upon them, and they shall rouse them from
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Speaker 1: their thrones, that they may break forth as lions from
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Speaker 1: their lairs, and as hungry wolves among their flocks. And
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Speaker 1: they shall go up and tread under foot the land
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Speaker 1: of his elect ones, and the land of his elect
1:58:51
Speaker 1: ones shall be before them a threshing floor and a highway.
1:58:55
Speaker 1: But the city of My Righteous shall be a hindrance
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Speaker 1: to their horses, and they shall begin to fight among themselves,
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Speaker 1: and their right hand shall be strong against themselves. And
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Speaker 1: a man shall not know his brother, nor a son,
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Speaker 1: his father, or his mother, till there be no number
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Speaker 1: of the corpses through their slaughter, and their punishment be
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Speaker 1: not in vain. In those days, she all shall open
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Speaker 1: its jaws, and they shall be swallowed up therein, and
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Speaker 1: their destruction shall be at an end. Shi' all shall
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Speaker 1: devour the sinners in the presence of the elect Chapter
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Speaker 1: fifty seven. The Return from the Dispersion Chapter fifty seven.
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Speaker 1: And it came to pass after this that I saw
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Speaker 1: another host of wagons and men riding thereon and coming
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Speaker 1: on the winds from the east and from the west
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Speaker 1: to the south, and the noise of their wagons was heard.
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Speaker 1: And when this turmoil took place, the Holy ones from
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Speaker 1: heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were
1:59:52
Speaker 1: moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard
1:59:55
Speaker 1: from the one end of heaven to the other in
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Speaker 1: one day, and they shall all fall down and worship
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of
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Speaker 1: the second Parable, chapter fifty eight through seventy one, the
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Speaker 1: third Parable, chapter fifty eight, the Blessedness of the Saints,
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Speaker 1: chapter fifty eight, and I began to speak the third
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Speaker 1: Parable concerning the Righteous in elect blessed are ye, ye
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Speaker 1: righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot. And
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Speaker 1: the righteous shall be in the light of the Sun,
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Speaker 1: and the elect in the light of eternal life. And
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Speaker 1: the days of their life shall be unending, and the
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Speaker 1: days of the Holy without number, and they shall seek
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Speaker 1: the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits.
2:00:39
Speaker 1: There shall be peace to the righteous in the name
2:00:41
Speaker 1: of the Eternal Lord. And after this it shall be
2:00:45
Speaker 1: said to the Holy in heaven that they should seek
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Speaker 1: out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith. For
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Speaker 1: it has become bright as the sun upon earth. And
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Speaker 1: the darkness is passed, and there shall be a light
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Speaker 1: that never endeth, and to a limit literally number of days,
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Speaker 1: they shall not come. For the darkness shall first have
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Speaker 1: been destroyed and the light established before the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: and the light of uprightness established forever before the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits, chapter fifty nine. The Lights and the Thunder
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Speaker 1: chapter fifty nine. In those days, mine eyes saw the
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Speaker 1: secrets of the lightnings and of the lights, and the
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Speaker 1: judgments they execute literally their judgment, and they lighten for
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Speaker 1: a blessing or a curse, as the Lord of Spirits willeth.
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Speaker 1: And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and
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Speaker 1: how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound
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Speaker 1: thereof is heard. And he caused me to see the
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Speaker 1: judgments executed on the earth, whether they be for well
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Speaker 1: being and blessing or for a curse, according to the
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Speaker 1: word of the Lord of Spirits. And after that all
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Speaker 1: the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me,
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Speaker 1: and they lighten for blessing and for satisfy. And of
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Speaker 1: section seven, chapter sixty, Book of Noah, a fragment Quaking
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Speaker 1: of Heaven, Behemeth and Leviathan the Elements, chapter sixty. In
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Speaker 1: the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the
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Speaker 1: fourteenth day of the month, in the life of Enoch.
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Speaker 1: In that parable I saw how a mighty quaking made
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Speaker 1: the heaven of heavens to quake, and the Host of
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Speaker 1: the Most High, and the angels a thousand thousands and
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Speaker 1: ten thousand times ten thousand were disquieted with a great disquiet,
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Speaker 1: and the Head of Days sat on the throne of
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Speaker 1: his glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around him.
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Speaker 1: And a great trembling seized me, and fear took hold
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Speaker 1: of me, and my loins gave way, and dissolved were
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Speaker 1: my reins. And I fell upon my face, and Michael
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Speaker 1: sent another angel from among the holy ones, and he
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Speaker 1: raised me up. And when he had raised me up,
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Speaker 1: my spirit returned, for I had not been able to
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Speaker 1: endure the look of this host and the commotion and
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Speaker 1: the quaking of the heaven. And Michael said, unto me,
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Speaker 1: why art thou disquieted with such a vision? Until this
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Speaker 1: day lasted the day of his mercy. And he hath
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Speaker 1: been merciful and long suffering towards those who dwell on
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Speaker 1: the earth. And when the day and the power, and
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Speaker 1: the punishment and the judgment come, which the Lord of
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Speaker 1: spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law,
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Speaker 1: and for those who deny the righteous judgment, and for
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Speaker 1: those who take his name in vain. That day is
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Speaker 1: prepared for the elect to coven it, but for sinners
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Speaker 1: and inquisition, when the punishment of the Lord of Spirit
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Speaker 1: shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that
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Speaker 1: the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come
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Speaker 1: in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers,
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Speaker 1: and the children with their fathers. Afterwards, the judgment shall
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Speaker 1: take place according to his mercy and his patience. And
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Speaker 1: on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster
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Speaker 1: named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean,
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Speaker 1: over the fountains of the waters. But the male is
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Speaker 1: named Behameth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness
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Speaker 1: named Duadane, on the east of the garden, where the
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Speaker 1: elect and Righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up
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Speaker 1: the seventh from Adam, the first man, whom the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits created. And I besought the other angel that
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Speaker 1: he should show me the might of those monsters. How
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Speaker 1: they were parted on one day, and cast the one
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Speaker 1: into the abysses of the sea, and the other unto
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Speaker 1: the dry land of the wilderness. And he said to me, thou,
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Speaker 1: son of Man, herein thou dost seek to know what
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Speaker 1: is hidden? And the other angel, who went with me
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Speaker 1: and showed me what was hidden, told me what is
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Speaker 1: first and last in the heaven, in the height and
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Speaker 1: beneath the earth, in the depth, and at the ends
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Speaker 1: of the heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven,
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Speaker 1: and the chambers of the winds, And how the winds
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Speaker 1: are divided, and how they are weighed, and how the
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Speaker 1: poort of the winds are reckoned, each according to the
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Speaker 1: power of the wind, and the power of the lights
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Speaker 1: of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting,
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Speaker 1: and the divisions of the stars according to their names,
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Speaker 1: and how all the divisions are divided, and the thunders
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Speaker 1: according to the places where they fall, and all the
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Speaker 1: divisions that are made among the lightnings, that it may
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Speaker 1: lighten and their host, that they may at once obey.
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Speaker 1: For the thunder has places of rest which are assigned
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Speaker 1: to it while it is waiting for its peal. And
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Speaker 1: the thunder and lightning are inseparable, And although not one
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Speaker 1: and undivided, they both go together through the spirit and
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Speaker 1: separate not for when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters
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Speaker 1: its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal,
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Speaker 1: and divides equally between them. For the treasury of their
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Speaker 1: peals is like the sand. And each one of them,
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Speaker 1: as it peals, is held in with a bridle, and
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Speaker 1: turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed
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Speaker 1: forward according to the many quarters of the earth. And
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Speaker 1: the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and
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Speaker 1: according to the might of his strength, he draws it
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Speaker 1: back with a rain, and in like manner it is
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Speaker 1: driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth.
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Speaker 1: And the spirit of the hoar frost is his own angel.
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Speaker 1: And the spirit of the hail is a good angel.
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Speaker 1: And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers
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Speaker 1: on account of his strength. There is a special spirit therein,
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Speaker 1: and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and
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Speaker 1: its name is frost. And the spirit of the Mist
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Speaker 1: is not united with them in their chambers, but it
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Speaker 1: has a special chamber, for its course is glorious both
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Speaker 1: in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer.
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Speaker 1: And in its chamber is an angel. And the spirit
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Speaker 1: of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of
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Speaker 1: the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain,
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Speaker 1: and its course is in winter and summer, and its
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Speaker 1: clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected, and
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Speaker 1: the one gives to the other. And when the spirit
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Speaker 1: of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels
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Speaker 1: come and open the chamber and lead it out. And
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Speaker 1: when it is diffused over the whole earth, it unites
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Speaker 1: with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites
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Speaker 1: with the water on the earth. For the waters are
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Speaker 1: for those who dwell on the earth, for they are
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Speaker 1: nourishment for the earth, and from the most High, who
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Speaker 1: is in heaven. Therefore there is a measure for the rain,
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Speaker 1: and the angels take it in charge. And these things
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Speaker 1: I saw towards the garden of the Righteous, and the
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Speaker 1: Angel of Peace, who was with me, said to me,
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Speaker 1: these two monsters prepared conformably to the greatness of God
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Speaker 1: shall feed Chapter sixty one. Angels go off to measure Paradise,
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Speaker 1: the judgment of the righteous by the elect one, the
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Speaker 1: praise of the elect one and of God Chapter sixty one.
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Speaker 1: And I saw in those days how long cords were
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Speaker 1: given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings
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Speaker 1: and flew, and they went towards the north. And I
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Speaker 1: asked the angel, saying, unto him, why have those angels
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Speaker 1: taken these cords and gone off? And he said, unto me,
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Speaker 1: they have gone to measure. And the angel who went
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Speaker 1: with me said, unto me, these shall bring the measures
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Speaker 1: of the righteous and the ropes of the righteous to
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Speaker 1: the righteous, that they may stay themselves on the name
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Speaker 1: of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever the elect
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Speaker 1: shall begin to dwell with the elect. And those are
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Speaker 1: the measures which shall be given to faith, and which
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Speaker 1: shall strengthen righteousness. And these measures shall reveal all the
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Speaker 1: secrets of the depths of the earth, and those who
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Speaker 1: have been destroyed by the desert, and those who have
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Speaker 1: been devoured by the beasts, and those who have been
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Speaker 1: devoured by the fish of the sea, that they may
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Speaker 1: return and stay themselves on the day of the elect one.
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Speaker 1: For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: and none can be destroyed. And all who dwell above
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Speaker 1: in the heaven received a command and power, and one voice,
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Speaker 1: and one light like unto fire, and that one with
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Speaker 1: their first words they blessed and extolled, and lauded with wisdom.
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Speaker 1: And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit
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Speaker 1: of life, and the Lord of Spirits placed the elect
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Speaker 1: One on the throne of Glory. And he shall judge
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Speaker 1: all the works of the Holy above in the heaven
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Speaker 1: and in the balance, shall their deeds be weighed. And
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Speaker 1: when he shall lift up his countenance to judge their
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Speaker 1: secret ways according to the word of the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits, and their path according to the
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Speaker 1: way of the righteous judgment of the Lord of Spirits,
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Speaker 1: then shall they all with one voice speak and bless
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Speaker 1: and glorify, and extol and sanctify the name of the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits. And he will summon all the host
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Speaker 1: of the heavens, and all the Holy ones above, and
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Speaker 1: the Host of God, the Cherubic Seraphin and Ofannin, and
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Speaker 1: all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities,
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Speaker 1: and the elect One and the other powers on the
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Speaker 1: earth and over the water. On that day shall raise
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Speaker 1: one voice and bless and glorify and exalt in the
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Speaker 1: spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and
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Speaker 1: in the spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy,
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Speaker 1: and in the spirit of judgment and of peace, and
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Speaker 1: in the spirit of goodness, And shall all say with
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Speaker 1: one voice, blessed is he. And may the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits be blessed forever and ever. All
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Speaker 1: who sleep not above in heaven shall bless him, and
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Speaker 1: all the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless him,
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Speaker 1: And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life,
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Speaker 1: and every spirit of light who is able to bless
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Speaker 1: and glorify and extol and hallow thy blessed name, and
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Speaker 1: all flesh shall beyond measure, glorify and bless thy name
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Speaker 1: forever and ever. For great is the mercy of the
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Speaker 1: Lord of spirit, and he is long suffering, And all
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Speaker 1: his works and all that he has created, he has
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Speaker 1: revealed to the Righteous and elect in the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits, Chapter sixty two. Judgment of the
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Speaker 1: Kings and the Mighty, Blessedness of the Righteous, Chapter sixty two.
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Speaker 1: And thus the Lord commanded the Kings and the Mighty
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Speaker 1: and the Exalted and those who dwell on the earth,
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Speaker 1: and said, open your eyes and lift up your horns,
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Speaker 1: if you are able to recognize the elect One. And
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of
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Speaker 1: his glory, and the Spirit of Righteousness was poured out
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Speaker 1: upon him, and the word of his mouth slays all
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Speaker 1: the sinners, and all the unrighteous are destroyed from before
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Speaker 1: his face. And there shall stand up in that day
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Speaker 1: all the kings and the mighty, and the exalted, in
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Speaker 1: those who hold the earth, And they shall see and
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Speaker 1: recognize how he sits on the throne of his glory,
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Speaker 1: and righteousness is judged before him, and no lying word
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Speaker 1: is spoken before him. Then chapain come upon them, as
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Speaker 1: on a woman in travail, And she has pain in
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Speaker 1: bringing forth when her child enters the mouth of the womb,
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Speaker 1: and she is pain in bringing forth. And one portion
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Speaker 1: of them shall look on the other, and they shall
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Speaker 1: be terrified, and they shall be downcast of countenance, and
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Speaker 1: pain shall seize them when they see that son of
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Speaker 1: Man sitting on the throne of his glory. And the
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Speaker 1: kings and the Mighty, and all who possess the earth
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Speaker 1: shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all,
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Speaker 1: who was hidden. For from the beginning the Son of
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Speaker 1: Man was hidden, and the most High preserved him in
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Speaker 1: the presence of his might, and revealed him to the elect,
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Speaker 1: and the congregation of the elect, and holy shall be sown,
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Speaker 1: and all the elects shall stand before him on that day,
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Speaker 1: and all the kings and the Mighty, and the exalted,
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Speaker 1: and those who rule the earth shall fall down before
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Speaker 1: him on their faces and worship and set their hope
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Speaker 1: upon that son of Man, and petition him, and supplicate
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Speaker 1: for mercy at his hands. Nevertheless, that Lord of Spirits
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Speaker 1: will so press them that they shall hastily go forth
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Speaker 1: from his presence, and their faces shall be filled with shame,
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Speaker 1: and the darkness grow deeper on their faces, and he
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Speaker 1: will deliver them to the angels for punishment, to execute
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Speaker 1: vengeance on them, because they have oppressed His children and
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Speaker 1: his elect. And they shall be a spectacle for the
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Speaker 1: righteous and for his elect. They shall rejoice over them,
2:13:22
Speaker 1: because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
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Speaker 1: and his sword is drunk with their blood. And the
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Speaker 1: righteous and elect shall be saved on that day, and
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Speaker 1: they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners
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Speaker 1: and unrighteous, And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
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Speaker 1: and with that son of Man they shall eat and
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Speaker 1: lie down and rise up forever and ever, and the
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Speaker 1: righteous and Elect shall have risen from the earth and
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Speaker 1: ceased to be of downcast countenance. And they shall have
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Speaker 1: been clothed with garments of glory, and these shall be
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Speaker 1: the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits. And
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Speaker 1: your garments shall not grow old, nor your glory pass
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Speaker 1: away before the Lord of Spirits Chapter sixty three. The
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Speaker 1: Unveiling Repentance of the Kings and the Mighty Chapter sixty three.
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Speaker 1: In those days shall the Mighty and the Kings who
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Speaker 1: possess the earth implore him to grant them a little
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Speaker 1: respite from his angels of punishment, to whom they were delivered,
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Speaker 1: that they might fall down and worship before the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Spirits, and confess their sins before him. And they
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Speaker 1: shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say,
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Speaker 1: blessed is the Lord of Spirits, and the Lord of Kings,
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Speaker 1: and the Lord of the Mighty, and the Lord of
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Speaker 1: the Rich, and the Lord of Glory, and the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Wisdom and splendid. In every secret thing is thy power,
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Speaker 1: from generation to generation, and thy glory forever and ever
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Speaker 1: deep are all thy secrets and innumerable, and thy righteousness
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Speaker 1: is beyond reckoning. We have now learnt that we should
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Speaker 1: glorify and blessed the Lord of kings, and him who
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Speaker 1: is King over all kings. And and they shall say,
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Speaker 1: would that we had rest, to glorify and give thanks
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Speaker 1: and confess our faith before his glory. And now we
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Speaker 1: long for a little rest, but find it not. We
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Speaker 1: follow hard upon and obtain it not. And light has
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Speaker 1: vanished from before us, And darkness is our dwelling place
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Speaker 1: forever and ever. For we have not believed before him,
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Speaker 1: nor glorified the name of the Lord of spirits, nor
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Speaker 1: glorified our Lord. But our hope was in the scepter
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Speaker 1: of our kingdom, and in our glory, And in the
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Speaker 1: day of our suffering in tribulation, He saves us not.
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Speaker 1: And we find no respite for confession that our Lord
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Speaker 1: is true in all his works and in his judgments,
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Speaker 1: and his justice, and his judgments have no respective persons.
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Speaker 1: And we pass away from before his face on account
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Speaker 1: of our works, and all our sins are reckoned up
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Speaker 1: in righteousness. Now they shall say, unto themselves, our souls
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Speaker 1: are full of unrighteous gain. But it does not prevent
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Speaker 1: us from descending from the bits thereof into the burden
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Speaker 1: of schule. And after that their faces shall be filled
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Speaker 1: with darkness and shame before that son of Man, and
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Speaker 1: they shall be driven from his presence, and the swords
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Speaker 1: shall abide before his face in their midst. Thus spake
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Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. This is the ordinance and judgment
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Speaker 1: with respect to the Mighty and the Kings, and the Exalted,
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Speaker 1: and those who possess the earth before the Lord of
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Speaker 1: Spirits chapter sixty four. Vision of the fallen Angels in
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Speaker 1: the Place of Punishment chapter sixty four, and other forms
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Speaker 1: I saw hidden in that place. I heard the voice
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Speaker 1: of the angel, saying, these are the angels who descended
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Speaker 1: to the earth and revealed what was hidden to the
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Speaker 1: children of men, and seduced the children of men into
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Speaker 1: committing sin. And of section eight, chapter sixty five. Enoch
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Speaker 1: foretells to Noah the deluge and his own preservation chapter
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Speaker 1: sixty five. And in those days Noah saw the earth,
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Speaker 1: that is, it had sunk down, and its destruction was nigh.
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Speaker 1: And he arose from thence and went to the ends
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Speaker 1: of the earth and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch.
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Speaker 1: And Noah said three times, with an embittered voice, hear me,
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Speaker 1: hear me, hear me. And I said unto him, Tell
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Speaker 1: me what it is that is falling out on the earth,
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Speaker 1: that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken,
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Speaker 1: lest perchance I shall perish with it. And thereupon there
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Speaker 1: was a great commotion on the earth, and a voice
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Speaker 1: was heard from heaven. And I fell on my face,
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Speaker 1: and Enoch, my grandfather, came and stood by me, and said,
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Speaker 1: unto me, why hast thou cried unto me with a
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Speaker 1: bitter cry and weeping? And a command has gone forth
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Speaker 1: from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell
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Speaker 1: on the earth, that their ruin is accomplished, because they
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Speaker 1: have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all
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Speaker 1: the violence of the satans, and all their powers, the
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Speaker 1: most secret ones, and all the power of those who
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Speaker 1: practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power
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Speaker 1: of those who make molten images for the whole earth,
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Speaker 1: and how silver is produced from the dust of the earth,
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Speaker 1: and how soft metal originates in the earth. For lead
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Speaker 1: and tin are not produced from the earth like the first.
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Speaker 1: It is a fountain that produces them. And an angel
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Speaker 1: stands therein and that angel is pre eminent. And after that,
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Speaker 1: my grandfather, Enoch took hold of me by my hand
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Speaker 1: and raised me up and said, unto me, go, For
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Speaker 1: I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this
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Speaker 1: commotion on the earth, and he said, unto me. Because
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Speaker 1: of their unrighteousness, their judgment has been determined upon and
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Speaker 1: shall not be withheld by me forever. Because of the
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Speaker 1: sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth
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Speaker 1: and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed. And
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Speaker 1: these they have no place of repentance forever, because they
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Speaker 1: have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned.
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Speaker 1: But as for THEE, my son, the Lord of Spirits
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Speaker 1: knows that thou art pure and guiltless of this reproach
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Speaker 1: concerned the secrets, and he has destined thy name to
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Speaker 1: be among the holy, and will preserve thee amongst those
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Speaker 1: who dwell on the earth, and has destined thy righteous
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Speaker 1: seed both for kingship and for great honors. And from
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Speaker 1: thy seed shall precede a fountain of the righteous and
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Speaker 1: holy without number forever. Chapter sixty six. The angels of
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Speaker 1: the waters bidden to hold them in check Chapter sixty six.
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Speaker 1: And after that he showed me the angels of punishment,
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Speaker 1: who were prepared to come and let loose all the
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Speaker 1: powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth,
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Speaker 1: in order to bring judgment and destruction on all who
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Speaker 1: abide and dwell on the earth. And the Lord of
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Speaker 1: spirits gave commandment to the angels who were going forth,
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Speaker 1: that they should not cause the waters to rise, but
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Speaker 1: should hold them in check, for those angels were over
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Speaker 1: the powers of the waters. And I went away from
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Speaker 1: the presence of Enoch chapter sixty seven. God's promised to
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Speaker 1: Noah places of punishment of the angels and of the
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Speaker 1: kings chapter sixty SI. And in those days the word
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Speaker 1: of God came unto me, and he said, unto me, Noah,
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Speaker 1: thy lot hast come up before me, a lot without blame,
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Speaker 1: a lot of love and uprightness. And now the angels
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Speaker 1: are making a wooden building. And when they have completed
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Speaker 1: the task, I will place my hand upon it and
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Speaker 1: preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the
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Speaker 1: seed of life, and a change shall set in, so
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Speaker 1: that the earth will not remain without inhabitant. And I
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Speaker 1: will make fast thy seed before me forever and ever,
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Speaker 1: and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee
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Speaker 1: It shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth,
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Speaker 1: but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth
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Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. And he will imprison
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Speaker 1: those angels who have shown unrighteousness. In that burning valley
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Speaker 1: which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in
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Speaker 1: the west, among the mountains of gold and silver, and iron,
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Speaker 1: and soft metal and tin, and I saw that valley
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Speaker 1: in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion
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Speaker 1: of the waters. And when all this took place, from
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Speaker 1: that fiery molten metal, and from the convulsion thereof in
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Speaker 1: that place there was produced a smell of sulfur, and
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Speaker 1: it was connected with those waters, And that the valley
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Speaker 1: of the angels who had led astray mankind burned beneath
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Speaker 1: that land, and through its valleys proceede streams of fire,
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Speaker 1: where these angels are punished, who had led astray those
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Speaker 1: who dwell upon the earth. But those waters shall in
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Speaker 1: those days serve for the kings and the mighty and
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Speaker 1: the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for
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Speaker 1: the healing of the body, but for the punishment of
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Speaker 1: the spirit. Now their spirit is full of lust, that
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Speaker 1: they may be punished in their body, for they have
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Speaker 1: denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily,
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Speaker 1: and yet believe not in His name, and in proportion.
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Speaker 1: As the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding
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Speaker 1: change shall take place in their spirit forever and ever.
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Speaker 1: For before the Lord of Spirits, none shall utter an
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Speaker 1: idle word, For the judgment shall come upon them because
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Speaker 1: they believe in the lust of their body and deny
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Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord. And those same waters will
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Speaker 1: undergo a change in those days. For when those angels
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Speaker 1: are punished in these waters, these water springs shall change
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Speaker 1: their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of
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Speaker 1: the springs shall change and become cold. And I heard
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Speaker 1: Michael answering and saying, this judgment wherewith the angels are judged,
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Speaker 1: is the testimony for the Kings and the Mighty who
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Speaker 1: possess the earth. Because these waters of judgment minister to
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Speaker 1: the healing of the body of the Kings and the
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Speaker 1: lust of their body. Therefore they will not see and
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Speaker 1: will not believe, that those waters will change and become
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Speaker 1: a fire which burns forever. Chapter sixty eight, Michael and Raphael,
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Speaker 1: astonished at the severity of the Judgment Chapter sixty eight.
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Speaker 1: And after that, my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching
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Speaker 1: of all the secrets in the book in the Parables,
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Speaker 1: which had been given to him, and he put them
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Speaker 1: together for me in the words of the Book of
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Speaker 1: the Parables. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said,
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Speaker 1: the power of the Spirit transports and makes me to
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Speaker 1: tremble because of the severity of the judgment of the
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Speaker 1: secrets and the judgment of the angels. Who can endure
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Speaker 1: the severe judgment which has been executed, and before which
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Speaker 1: they melt away? And Michael answered again and said to Raphael,
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Speaker 1: who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it,
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Speaker 1: and whose reigns are not troubled by this word of
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Speaker 1: judgment that has gone forth upon them? Because of those
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Speaker 1: who have thus led them out. And it came to
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Speaker 1: pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael
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Speaker 1: said thus to Raphael, I will not take their part
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Speaker 1: under the eye of the Lord, for the Lord of
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Speaker 1: Spirits has been angry with them, because they do as
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Speaker 1: if they were the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden
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Speaker 1: shall come upon them forever and ever, for neither angel
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Speaker 1: nor man shall have his portion in it, but alone
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Speaker 1: they have received their judgment forever and ever Chapter sixty nine.
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Speaker 1: The Names and functions of the Fallen Angels, and Satan's
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Speaker 1: the Secret Oath, Chapter sixty nine. And after this judgment
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Speaker 1: they shall terrify and make them to tremble, because they
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Speaker 1: have shown this to those who dwell on the earth.
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Speaker 1: And behold the names of those angels, and these are
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Speaker 1: their names. The first of them is Samjaza, the second Artaquifa,
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Speaker 1: and the third Arman, the fourth Colcobel, the fifth Turiel,
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Speaker 1: the sixth Rumjal, the seventh dan Jal, the eighth Nikuel,
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Speaker 1: the ninth Baraqueal, the tenth Asazel, the eleventh Armaros, the
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Speaker 1: twelfth Batarishal, the thirteenth Bisassijaal, the fourteenth Hananal, the fifteenth
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Speaker 1: Turel and the sixteenth Samapasiol, the seventeenth Jetrel, the eighteenth
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Speaker 1: to Mail, the nineteenth Turel, the twentieth Rumael, the twenty
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Speaker 1: first Azazel. And these are the chiefs of their angels,
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Speaker 1: and their names and their chief ones over hundreds and
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Speaker 1: over fifties and over tens. The name of the first Jaquan,
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Speaker 1: that is the one who led astray all the sons
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Speaker 1: of God, and brought them down to the earth and
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Speaker 1: led them astray through the daughters of men. And the
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Speaker 1: second was named Aspiel. He imported to the holy sons
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Speaker 1: of God evil counsel and led them astray, so that
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Speaker 1: they deviled their bodies with the daughters of men. And
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Speaker 1: the third was named Gadriel. He it is who showed
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Speaker 1: the children of men all the blows of death, and
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Speaker 1: he led astray eve and showed the weapons of death
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Speaker 1: to the sons of men, the shield and the coat
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Speaker 1: of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the
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Speaker 1: weapons of death to the children of men. And from
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Speaker 1: his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on
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Speaker 1: the earth from that day and forevermore. And the fourth
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Speaker 1: was named eMule. He taught the children of men the
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Speaker 1: bitter and the sweet, and he taught them all the
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Speaker 1: secrets of their wisdom. And he instructed mankind in writing
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Speaker 1: with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity
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Speaker 1: to eternity and until this day. For men were not
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Speaker 1: created for such a purpose to give confirmation to their
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Speaker 1: good faith with pen and ink. For men were created
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Speaker 1: exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should
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Speaker 1: continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could
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Speaker 1: not have taken hold of them. But through this their
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Speaker 1: knowledge they are perishing. And through this power it is
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Speaker 1: consuming me. And the fifth was named Costeja. This is
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Speaker 1: he who showed the children of men all the wicked
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Speaker 1: smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the
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Speaker 1: embryo in the womb that it may pass away, and
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Speaker 1: the smitings of the soul, the bites of the serpent,
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Speaker 1: and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat. The
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Speaker 1: son of the serpent named Tabaet. And this is the
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Speaker 1: task of Caspil, the chief of the oath, which he
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Speaker 1: showed to the holy Ones when he dwelt high above
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Speaker 1: in glory. And its name is Biqua. This angel requested
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Speaker 1: Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might
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Speaker 1: enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake
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Speaker 1: before that name and oath, who revealed all that was
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Speaker 1: in secret to the children of men. And this is
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Speaker 1: the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong.
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Speaker 1: And he placed this oath a kay in the hand
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Speaker 1: of Michael. And these are the secrets of this oath,
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Speaker 1: and they are strong through his oath. And the heaven
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Speaker 1: was suspended before the world was created and forever, and
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Speaker 1: through it the earth was founded upon the water, and
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Speaker 1: from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters.
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Speaker 1: From the creation of the world and unto eternity. And
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Speaker 1: through that oath the sea was created, and as its
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Speaker 1: foundation he set for it the sand against the time
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Speaker 1: of its anger, and it dare not pass beyond it.
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Speaker 1: From the creation of the world unto eternity. And through
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Speaker 1: that oath are the depths made fast and abide and
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Speaker 1: stir not from their place, from eternity to eternity. And
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Speaker 1: through that oath the Sun and Moon complete their course,
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Speaker 1: and deviate not from their ordinance, from eternity to eternity.
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Speaker 1: And through that oath the stars complete their course. And
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Speaker 1: He calls them by their names, and they answer him.
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Speaker 1: From eternity to eternity. And in like manner, the spirits
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Speaker 1: of the water, and of the winds, and of all zephyrs,
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Speaker 1: and their paths from all the quarters of the winds,
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Speaker 1: and there are preserved the voices of the thunder and
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Speaker 1: the light of the lightnings. And there preserve the chambers
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Speaker 1: of the hail, and the chambers of the hoarfrost, and
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Speaker 1: the chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the
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Speaker 1: rain and the dew, and all these believe and give
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Speaker 1: thanks for the Lord of Spirits, and glorify him with
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Speaker 1: all their power. And their food is in every act
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Speaker 1: of thanksgiving. And they think and glorify and extol the
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever. And
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Speaker 1: this oath is mighty over them, and through it they
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Speaker 1: are preserved, and their paths are preserved, and their course
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Speaker 1: is not destroyed. Close of the third parable, and there
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Speaker 1: was great joy amongst them, and they blessed and glorified
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Speaker 1: and extolled, because the name of that son of Man
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Speaker 1: had been revealed unto them, and he sat on the
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Speaker 1: throne of his glory, and the sum of judgment was
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Speaker 1: given unto the son of Man. And he caused the
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Speaker 1: sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the
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Speaker 1: face of the earth. And those who have led the
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Speaker 1: world astray with chains, shall they be bound, and in
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Speaker 1: their assemblaged place of destruction shall they be imprisoned, and
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Speaker 1: all their works vanish from the face of the earth.
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Speaker 1: And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible, for that
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Speaker 1: Son of Man has appeared and is seated himself on
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Speaker 1: the throne of his glory, and all evils shall pass
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Speaker 1: away from before his face, and the word of that
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Speaker 1: son of Man shall go forth and be strong before
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Speaker 1: the Lord of spirits. This is the third parable of
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Speaker 1: Enoch chapter seventy, the final translation of Enoch chapter seventy.
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Speaker 1: And it came to pass after this that his name,
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Speaker 1: during his lifetime, was raised aloft to that son of
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Speaker 1: Man and to the Lord of Spirits, from amongst those
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Speaker 1: who dwell on the earth. And he was raised aloft
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Speaker 1: on the chariots of the spirit, and his name vanished
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Speaker 1: among them. And from that day I was no longer
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Speaker 1: numbered amongst them. And he set me between the two winds,
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Speaker 1: between the north and the west, where the angels took
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Speaker 1: the cords to measure for me the place for the
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Speaker 1: elect and righteous. And there I saw the first fathers
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Speaker 1: and the righteous, who from the beginning dwell in that
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Speaker 1: place Chapter seventy one. Two earlier versions of Enoch chapter
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Speaker 1: seventy one. And it came to pass after this that
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Speaker 1: my spirit was translated, and it ascended into the heavens
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Speaker 1: and I saw the Holy Sons of God. They were
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Speaker 1: stepping on flames of fire. Their garments were white, and
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Speaker 1: their raiment and their faces shone like snow. And I
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Speaker 1: saw two streams of fire, and the light of that
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Speaker 1: fire shone like hyacinth. And I fell on my face
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Speaker 1: before the Lord of spirits, and the angel Michael, one
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Speaker 1: of the archangels, seized me by my right hand, and
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Speaker 1: he lifted me up and led me forth into all
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Speaker 1: the secrets, and he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
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Speaker 1: And he showed me all the secrets of the ends
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Speaker 1: of the heaven, and all the chambers of all the stars,
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Speaker 1: and all the luminaries. Whence they proceeded before the face
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Speaker 1: of the Holy Ones, and he translated my spirit into
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Speaker 1: the heaven of heavens. And I saw there, as it were,
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Speaker 1: a structure built of crystals, and between those crystals tongues
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Speaker 1: of living fire. And my spirit saw the girdle which
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Speaker 1: girt that house of fire, and on its four sides
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Speaker 1: were streams full of living fire. And they girt that house,
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Speaker 1: and round about were seraphin Cherubic and ofanin. And these
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Speaker 1: are they who sleep not and guard the throne of
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Speaker 1: his glory. And I saw angels who could not be
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Speaker 1: counted a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand
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Speaker 1: encircling that house. And Michael and Rafael, and Gabriel and Fanouel,
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Speaker 1: and the holy angels who are above the heavens go
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Speaker 1: in and out of that house. And they came forth
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Speaker 1: from that house, and Michael and Gabriel, Rafael and Fanol
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Speaker 1: and many holy angels without number, and with them the
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Speaker 1: Head of Days, his head white and pure as wool,
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Speaker 1: and his raiment indescribable. And I fell on my face,
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Speaker 1: and my whole body became relaxed, and my spirit was transfigured.
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Speaker 1: And I cried with a loud voice, with the spirit
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Speaker 1: of power, and blessed and glorified and extolled. And these
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Speaker 1: blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well
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Speaker 1: pleasing before that Head of Days. And that Head of
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Speaker 1: Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Fanowel, thousands
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Speaker 1: and ten thousands of angels without number. Lost passage wherein
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Speaker 1: the Son of Man was described as accompanying the Head
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Speaker 1: of Days. And Enoch asked one of the angels as
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Speaker 1: in forty six three, concerning the son of Man as
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Speaker 1: to who he was, and he in other words, the
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Speaker 1: Angel came to me and greeted me with his voice,
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Speaker 1: and said, unto me, this is the son of Man,
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Speaker 1: who is born unto righteousness, and righteousness abides over him,
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Speaker 1: and the righteousness of the Head of days forsakes him not.
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Speaker 1: And he said, unto me, he proclaims unto Thee peace
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Speaker 1: in the name of the world to come. For from
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Speaker 1: hence has preceded peace since the creation of the world.
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Speaker 1: And so shall it be unto Thee forever and forever
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Speaker 1: and ever, and all shall walk in his ways, since
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Speaker 1: righteousness never forsaketh him. With him will be their dwelling places,
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Speaker 1: and with him their heritage, and they shall not be
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Speaker 1: separated from him, forever and ever and ever. And so
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Speaker 1: there shall be length of days with that son of Man,
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Speaker 1: and the righteous shall have peace and an upright way
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Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord of Spirits, forever and ever.
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Speaker 1: End of section nine. The Book of the Courses of
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Speaker 1: the Heavenly Luminaries, Chapter seventy two through chapter eighty two,
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Speaker 1: Chapter seventy two The Sun Chapter seventy two. The Book
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Speaker 1: of the Courses of the Luminaries of the heaven, the
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Speaker 1: relations of each according to their classes, their dominion, and
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Speaker 1: their seasons, according to their names and places of origin,
2:34:44
Speaker 1: and according to their months, which urial the Holy Angel,
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Speaker 1: who was with me, who is their guide, showed me,
2:34:51
Speaker 1: and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are,
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Speaker 1: and how it is with regard to all the years
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Speaker 1: of the world, and unto eternity, till the new creation
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Speaker 1: is accomplished, which dureth till eternity. And this is the
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Speaker 1: first law of the luminaries. The luminary the Sun has
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Speaker 1: its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and
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Speaker 1: its setting in the western portals of the Heaven. And
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Speaker 1: I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and
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Speaker 1: six portals in which the sun sets, and the moon
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Speaker 1: rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of
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Speaker 1: the stars in those whom they lead, six in the
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Speaker 1: east and six in the west, and all following each
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Speaker 1: other in accurately corresponding order. Also many windows to the
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Speaker 1: right and left of these portals. And first there goes
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Speaker 1: forth the great luminary named the Sun, and his circumference
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Speaker 1: is like the circumference of the heaven. And he is
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Speaker 1: quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. The chariot on
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Speaker 1: which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes
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Speaker 1: down from the heaven and returns through the north in
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Speaker 1: order to reach the east, and is so guided that
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Speaker 1: he comes to the appropriate literally that portal, and shines
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Speaker 1: in the face of the heaven. In this way he
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Speaker 1: rises in the first month in the great portal, which
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Speaker 1: is the fourth those six portals in the cast, and
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Speaker 1: in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in
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Speaker 1: the first month are twelve window openings, from which proceed
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Speaker 1: a flame when they are opened in their season. When
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Speaker 1: the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth through
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Speaker 1: that fourth portal thirty mornings in succession, and sets accurately
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Speaker 1: in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven.
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Speaker 1: And during this period the day becomes daily longer and
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Speaker 1: the night nightly shorter. To the thirtieth morning on that day,
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Speaker 1: the day is longer than the night by a ninth part,
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Speaker 1: and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the
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Speaker 1: night to eight parts. And the sun rises from that
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Speaker 1: fourth portal and sets in the fourth and return it
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Speaker 1: turns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings
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Speaker 1: and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal,
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Speaker 1: And then the day becomes longer by two parts and
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Speaker 1: amounts to eleven parts, and the night becomes shorter and
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Speaker 1: amounts to seven parts, and it returns to the east
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Speaker 1: and enters into the sixth portal and rises and sets
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Speaker 1: in the sixth portal one and thirty mornings. On account
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Speaker 1: of its sign. On that day, the day becomes longer
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Speaker 1: than the night, and the day becomes double the night,
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Speaker 1: and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is
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Speaker 1: shortened and becomes six parts, and the sun mounts up
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Speaker 1: to make the day shorter and the night longer, and
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Speaker 1: the sun returns to the east and enters into the
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Speaker 1: sixth portal and rises from it and sets thirty mornings.
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Speaker 1: And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by
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Speaker 1: exactly one part and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven.
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Speaker 1: And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in
2:38:02
Speaker 1: the west and goes to the east and rises in
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Speaker 1: the fifth portal for thirty mornings and sets in the
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Speaker 1: west again in the fifth western portal. On that day,
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Speaker 1: the day decreases by two parts and amounts to ten parts,
2:38:18
Speaker 1: and the night to eight parts, and the sun goes
2:38:21
Speaker 1: forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth
2:38:24
Speaker 1: portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal
2:38:28
Speaker 1: for one and thirty mornings on account of its sign,
2:38:32
Speaker 1: and sets in the west. On that day, the day
2:38:35
Speaker 1: is equalized with the night and becomes of equal length,
2:38:39
Speaker 1: and the night amounts to nine parts and the day
2:38:42
Speaker 1: to nine parts, and the sun rises from that portal
2:38:45
Speaker 1: and sets in the west and returns to the east
2:38:48
Speaker 1: and rises thirty mornings in the third portal, and sets
2:38:52
Speaker 1: in the west in the third portal, And on that
2:38:55
Speaker 1: day the night becomes longer than the day, and night
2:38:59
Speaker 1: becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till
2:39:02
Speaker 1: the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten
2:39:06
Speaker 1: parts and the day to eight parts, and the sun
2:39:09
Speaker 1: rises from that third portal and sets in the third
2:39:12
Speaker 1: portal in the west and returns to the east, and
2:39:15
Speaker 1: for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east,
2:39:19
Speaker 1: and in like manner, sets in the second portal in
2:39:21
Speaker 1: the west of the heaven. And on that day the
2:39:24
Speaker 1: night amounts to eleven parts, in the day to seven parts,
2:39:28
Speaker 1: and the sun rises on that day from the second
2:39:30
Speaker 1: portal and sets in the west in the second portal
2:39:33
Speaker 1: and returns to the east into the first portal for
2:39:36
Speaker 1: one and thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal
2:39:40
Speaker 1: in the west of the heaven. And on that day
2:39:42
Speaker 1: the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of
2:39:45
Speaker 1: the day, and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts,
2:39:48
Speaker 1: and the day to six, and the sun has therewith
2:39:52
Speaker 1: traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on
2:39:55
Speaker 1: those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty
2:39:59
Speaker 1: morning and sets also in the west opposite to it.
2:40:03
Speaker 1: And on that night has the night decreased in length
2:40:06
Speaker 1: by a ninth part, and the night has become eleven parts,
2:40:10
Speaker 1: in the day seven parts. And the sun has returned
2:40:13
Speaker 1: and entered into the second portal in the east and
2:40:16
Speaker 1: returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings,
2:40:20
Speaker 1: rising and setting. And on that day the night decreases
2:40:24
Speaker 1: in length, and the night amounts to ten parts, and
2:40:26
Speaker 1: the day to eight. And on that day the sun
2:40:30
Speaker 1: rises from that portal and sets in the west, and
2:40:32
Speaker 1: returns to the east and rises in the third portal
2:40:36
Speaker 1: for one and thirty mornings, and sets in the west
2:40:39
Speaker 1: of the heaven. On that day, the night decreases and
2:40:42
Speaker 1: amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts,
2:40:47
Speaker 1: And the night is equal to the day, and the
2:40:49
Speaker 1: year is exactly as to its days three hundred and
2:40:53
Speaker 1: sixty four. And the length of the day and of
2:40:56
Speaker 1: the night, and the shortness of the day and of
2:40:59
Speaker 1: the light arise through the course of the Sun. These
2:41:03
Speaker 1: distinctions are made literally, they are separated. So it comes
2:41:08
Speaker 1: that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter.
2:41:13
Speaker 1: And this is the law, and the course of the Sun,
2:41:16
Speaker 1: and his return as often as he returns sixty times
2:41:19
Speaker 1: and rises. In other words, the great luminary, which is
2:41:23
Speaker 1: named the Sun forever and ever, and that which thus rises,
2:41:28
Speaker 1: is the great luminary, and is so named according to
2:41:31
Speaker 1: its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. As he rises,
2:41:36
Speaker 1: so he sets and decreases not and rests not, but
2:41:40
Speaker 1: runs day and night. And his light is sevenfold brighter
2:41:44
Speaker 1: than that of the moon. But as regards size, they
2:41:47
Speaker 1: are both equal. Chapter seventy three. And after this law
2:41:53
Speaker 1: I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which
2:41:56
Speaker 1: is named the moon, and her circumference is like this
2:42:00
Speaker 1: conference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she
2:42:03
Speaker 1: rides is driven by the wind, and light is given
2:42:06
Speaker 1: to her in definite measure, and her rising and setting
2:42:10
Speaker 1: change every month, and her days are like the days
2:42:13
Speaker 1: of the sun. And when her light is uniform, in
2:42:16
Speaker 1: other words, full, it amounts to the seventh part of
2:42:19
Speaker 1: the light of the sun. And thus she rises, and
2:42:23
Speaker 1: her first phase in the east comes forth on the
2:42:26
Speaker 1: thirtieth morning, and on that day she becomes visible and
2:42:30
Speaker 1: constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on
2:42:34
Speaker 1: the thirtieth day, together with the sun in the portal
2:42:37
Speaker 1: where the sun rises, and the one half of her
2:42:41
Speaker 1: goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference
2:42:44
Speaker 1: is empty without light, with the exception of one seventh
2:42:49
Speaker 1: part of it, and the fourteenth part of her light.
2:42:52
Speaker 1: And when she receives one seventh part of the half
2:42:56
Speaker 1: of her light, her light amounts to one seventh part
2:42:59
Speaker 1: and then half thereof, and she sets with the sun.
2:43:03
Speaker 1: And when the sun rises, the moon rises with him
2:43:06
Speaker 1: and receives the half of one part of light. And
2:43:09
Speaker 1: in that night, in the beginning of her morning, in
2:43:12
Speaker 1: the commencement of the lunar day the moon sets with
2:43:15
Speaker 1: the sun and is invisible that night with the fourteen
2:43:19
Speaker 1: parts and the half of one of them. And she
2:43:22
Speaker 1: rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and
2:43:26
Speaker 1: comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun.
2:43:29
Speaker 1: And in her remaining days she becomes bright in the
2:43:32
Speaker 1: remaining thirteen parts, Chapter seventy four, and I saw another course,
2:43:39
Speaker 1: a law for her, and how according to that law
2:43:42
Speaker 1: she performs her monthly revolution. And all these Uriel, the
2:43:46
Speaker 1: holy Angel, who is the leader of them, all showed
2:43:49
Speaker 1: to me and their positions. And I wrote down their
2:43:52
Speaker 1: positions as he showed them to me. And I wrote
2:43:55
Speaker 1: down their months as they were, and the appearance of
2:43:58
Speaker 1: their lights, till eighteen days were accomplished. In single seventh parts,
2:44:04
Speaker 1: she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in
2:44:08
Speaker 1: single seventh parts accomplishes all her darkness in the west.
2:44:13
Speaker 1: And in certain months she alters her settings, and in
2:44:16
Speaker 1: certain months she pursues her own peculiar course. In two months,
2:44:22
Speaker 1: the moon sets with the sun in those two middle portals,
2:44:26
Speaker 1: the third and the fourth, she goes forth for seven
2:44:30
Speaker 1: days and turns about and returns again through the portal
2:44:34
Speaker 1: where the sun rises and accomplishes all her light, and
2:44:38
Speaker 1: she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters
2:44:42
Speaker 1: the sixth portal, from which the sun goes forth. And
2:44:46
Speaker 1: when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal, she
2:44:48
Speaker 1: goes forth seven days until she goes forth from the
2:44:52
Speaker 1: fifth and turns back again in seven days into the
2:44:55
Speaker 1: fourth portal, and accomplishes all her light, and she recedes
2:45:00
Speaker 1: and enters into the first portal in eight days, and
2:45:04
Speaker 1: she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal,
2:45:08
Speaker 1: from which the sun goes forth. Thus I saw their position,
2:45:12
Speaker 1: how the moon throws and the sun set in those days.
2:45:16
Speaker 1: And if five years are added together, the sun has
2:45:19
Speaker 1: an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which
2:45:23
Speaker 1: accrue to it for one of those five years, when
2:45:27
Speaker 1: they are full, amount to three hundred and sixty four days,
2:45:31
Speaker 1: and the overplus of the Sun and of the stars
2:45:34
Speaker 1: amounts to six days. In five years, six days every
2:45:38
Speaker 1: year come to thirty days, and the moon falls behind
2:45:42
Speaker 1: the Sun and stars to the number of thirty days.
2:45:45
Speaker 1: And the Sun and the stars bring in all the
2:45:48
Speaker 1: years exactly so that they do not advance or delay
2:45:51
Speaker 1: their position by a single day unto eternity, but complete
2:45:56
Speaker 1: the years with perfect justice in three hundred and sixty
2:45:59
Speaker 1: four days. In three years there are one thousand, ninety
2:46:03
Speaker 1: two days, and in five years one thousand, eight hundred
2:46:07
Speaker 1: and twenty days, so that in eight years there are
2:46:11
Speaker 1: two thousand, nine hundred and twelve days. For the moon alone,
2:46:15
Speaker 1: the days amount in three years to one thousand, sixty
2:46:18
Speaker 1: two days, and in five years she falls fifty days behind.
2:46:23
Speaker 1: In other words, to the sum of one thousand, seven
2:46:26
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy there is to be added one thousand
2:46:30
Speaker 1: and sixty two days, and in five years there are
2:46:34
Speaker 1: one thousand, seven hundred and seventy days, so that for
2:46:38
Speaker 1: the moon, the days in eight years amount to two thousand,
2:46:41
Speaker 1: eight hundred and thirty two days. For in eight years
2:46:45
Speaker 1: she falls behind to the amount of eighty days. All
2:46:49
Speaker 1: the days she falls behind in eight years are eighty.
2:46:53
Speaker 1: And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their
2:46:56
Speaker 1: world stations and the stations of the sun, which which
2:47:00
Speaker 1: rise from the portal through which it the sun rises
2:47:03
Speaker 1: and sets thirty days Chapter seventy five. And the leaders
2:47:09
Speaker 1: of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over
2:47:12
Speaker 1: the whole creation and over all the stars, have also
2:47:16
Speaker 1: to do with the four intercalorie days, being inseparable from
2:47:20
Speaker 1: their office according to the reckoning of the year, and
2:47:23
Speaker 1: these render service on the four days which are not
2:47:27
Speaker 1: reckoned in the reckoning of the year, and owing to them,
2:47:31
Speaker 1: men go wrong therein, For those luminaries truly render service
2:47:35
Speaker 1: on the world stations, one in the first portal, one
2:47:39
Speaker 1: in the third portal of the heaven, one in the
2:47:42
Speaker 1: fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal. And the
2:47:45
Speaker 1: exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three
2:47:49
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four stations for the signs and the times,
2:47:53
Speaker 1: in the years and the days. The Angel Uriel showed
2:47:57
Speaker 1: to me whom the Lord of Glory hath set forever
2:48:00
Speaker 1: over all the luminaries of the Heaven, in the heaven
2:48:03
Speaker 1: and in the world, that they should rule on the
2:48:06
Speaker 1: face of the heaven, and be seen on the earth,
2:48:09
Speaker 1: and be leaders for the day and the night. In
2:48:13
Speaker 1: other words, the sun, moon and stars, and all the
2:48:16
Speaker 1: ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots
2:48:21
Speaker 1: of the heaven. In like manner, twelve doors Uriel showed
2:48:25
Speaker 1: me open in the circumference of the Sun's chariot in
2:48:28
Speaker 1: the heaven through which the rays of the Sun break forth,
2:48:32
Speaker 1: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth when
2:48:35
Speaker 1: they are opened in their appointed seasons, and for the
2:48:39
Speaker 1: winds and the spirit of the dew, when they are opened,
2:48:42
Speaker 1: standing open in the heavens at the ends, as for
2:48:45
Speaker 1: the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of
2:48:48
Speaker 1: the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon,
2:48:50
Speaker 1: and stars, and all the works of heaven. In the
2:48:53
Speaker 1: east and in the west, there are many windows open
2:48:57
Speaker 1: to the left and right of them, and one window,
2:49:00
Speaker 1: at its appointed season, produces warmth, corresponding as these do
2:49:05
Speaker 1: to those doors from which the stars come forth, according
2:49:09
Speaker 1: as He commanded them, and wherein they set, corresponding to
2:49:13
Speaker 1: their number. And I saw chariots in the heaven running
2:49:17
Speaker 1: in the world above those portals in which revolved the
2:49:20
Speaker 1: stars that never set, And one is larger than all
2:49:23
Speaker 1: the rest, And it is that that makes its course
2:49:27
Speaker 1: through the entire world. And of section ten, chapter seventy six,
2:49:33
Speaker 1: the twelve windows and their portals, And at the ends
2:49:36
Speaker 1: of the earth, I saw twelve portals open to all
2:49:38
Speaker 1: the quarters of the heaven, from which the winds go
2:49:41
Speaker 1: forth and blow over the earth. Three of them are
2:49:44
Speaker 1: open on the face, in other words, the east of
2:49:46
Speaker 1: the heavens, and three in the west, and three on
2:49:49
Speaker 1: the right, in other words, the south of the heaven
2:49:52
Speaker 1: and three on the left, in otherwards the north, and
2:49:56
Speaker 1: the three first are those of the east, and three
2:49:59
Speaker 1: are of the north, and three after those on the
2:50:02
Speaker 1: left of the south, and three of the west. Through
2:50:06
Speaker 1: four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity. And
2:50:10
Speaker 1: from those eight come hurtful winds. When they are sent,
2:50:14
Speaker 1: they bring destruction on all the earth and on the
2:50:16
Speaker 1: water upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and
2:50:20
Speaker 1: on everything which is in the water and on the land.
2:50:24
Speaker 1: And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind,
2:50:27
Speaker 1: comes forth through the first portal, which is in the east,
2:50:31
Speaker 1: inclining towards the south. From it come forth desolation, drought, heat,
2:50:37
Speaker 1: and destruction. And through the second portal in the middle
2:50:41
Speaker 1: comes what is fitting, and from it there come rain
2:50:44
Speaker 1: and fruitfulness, and prosperity and dew. And through the third portal,
2:50:48
Speaker 1: which lies toward the north, come cold and drought. And
2:50:53
Speaker 1: after these come forth the south winds. Through three portals.
2:50:56
Speaker 1: Through the first portal of them inclining to the east,
2:51:00
Speaker 1: comes forth a hot wind, and through the middle portal
2:51:04
Speaker 1: next to it there come forth fragrant smells and dew
2:51:07
Speaker 1: and rain and prosperity in health. And through the third
2:51:11
Speaker 1: portal lying to the west, come forth dew and rain,
2:51:15
Speaker 1: locusts and desolation, and after these the north winds. From
2:51:20
Speaker 1: the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain,
2:51:23
Speaker 1: locusts and desolation. And from the middle portal come in
2:51:27
Speaker 1: a direct direction health and rain and dew and prosperity.
2:51:32
Speaker 1: And through the third portal in the west come cloud
2:51:35
Speaker 1: and hoar, frost and snow, and rain and dew in locusts,
2:51:40
Speaker 1: And after these four are the west winds. Through the
2:51:43
Speaker 1: first portal adjoining the north, come forth dew and hoar, frost,
2:51:47
Speaker 1: and cold and snow and frost. And from the middle
2:51:51
Speaker 1: portal come forth dew and rain and prosperity and blessing.
2:51:55
Speaker 1: And through the last portal, which adjoins the south, come
2:51:58
Speaker 1: forth drought and desolation and burning and destruction. And the
2:52:04
Speaker 1: twelve portals of the four quarters of the heaven are
2:52:06
Speaker 1: therewith complete it, and all their laws, and all their
2:52:09
Speaker 1: plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to thee
2:52:13
Speaker 1: my son Methuselah, chapter seventy seven, the four quarters of
2:52:18
Speaker 1: the world, the seven mountains, the seven rivers, and so on,
2:52:22
Speaker 1: chapter seventy seven. And the first quarter is called the
2:52:25
Speaker 1: East because it is the first, and the second the South,
2:52:30
Speaker 1: because the most high will descend there. Yea, there in
2:52:33
Speaker 1: quite a special sense, will he who is blessed forever descend.
2:52:38
Speaker 1: And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there
2:52:41
Speaker 1: all the luminaries of the heaven wain and go down.
2:52:45
Speaker 1: And the fourth quarter, named the North, is divided into
2:52:49
Speaker 1: three parts. The first of them is for the dwelling
2:52:52
Speaker 1: of men, and the second contain seas of water, and
2:52:56
Speaker 1: the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds,
2:53:01
Speaker 1: and the third part contains the Garden of righteousness. I
2:53:05
Speaker 1: saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which
2:53:08
Speaker 1: are on the earth, and thence comes forth hoarfrost, and days,
2:53:13
Speaker 1: seasons and years pass away. I saw seven rivers on
2:53:17
Speaker 1: the earth, larger than all the rivers. One of them,
2:53:20
Speaker 1: coming from the west, pours its waters into the Great Sea.
2:53:24
Speaker 1: And these two come from the north to the sea
2:53:27
Speaker 1: and pour their waters into the Erythrian Sea in the east,
2:53:31
Speaker 1: and the remaining four come forth on the side of
2:53:34
Speaker 1: the north to their own sea, two of them to
2:53:37
Speaker 1: the Erythrian Sea, and two into the Great Sea, and
2:53:40
Speaker 1: discharge themselves there, and some say into the desert. Seven
2:53:45
Speaker 1: great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland,
2:53:49
Speaker 1: two in the mainland, and five in the Great Sea.
2:53:52
Speaker 1: Chapter seventy seven. The Sun and Moon the waxing and
2:53:57
Speaker 1: waning of the Moon Chapter seventy six. And the names
2:54:01
Speaker 1: of the Sun are the following, the first or Jahres
2:54:06
Speaker 1: and the second Thomas. And the Moon has four names.
2:54:11
Speaker 1: The first name is Isoja, the second Ibra, the third Bonasse,
2:54:17
Speaker 1: and the fourth Irae. These are the two great luminaries.
2:54:21
Speaker 1: Their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and
2:54:25
Speaker 1: the size of the circumference of both is alike. In
2:54:28
Speaker 1: the circumference of the Sun there are seven portions of
2:54:32
Speaker 1: light which are added to it, more than to the Moon,
2:54:36
Speaker 1: and in definite measures it is transferred to the seventh
2:54:39
Speaker 1: portion of the Sun is exhausted, and they set and
2:54:43
Speaker 1: enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution
2:54:46
Speaker 1: by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals
2:54:49
Speaker 1: on the face of the heaven, and when the moon rises,
2:54:53
Speaker 1: one fourteenth part appears in the heaven, the light becomes
2:54:57
Speaker 1: full in her. On the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light,
2:55:02
Speaker 1: and fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till
2:55:04
Speaker 1: the fifteenth day, when her light is accomplished according to
2:55:08
Speaker 1: the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts,
2:55:12
Speaker 1: and the moon grows by the addition of fourteenth parts,
2:55:16
Speaker 1: and in her waning, the moon decreases on the first
2:55:19
Speaker 1: day to fourteen parts of her light on the second
2:55:22
Speaker 1: to thirteen parts of light on the third to twelve,
2:55:26
Speaker 1: on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten,
2:55:29
Speaker 1: on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight,
2:55:33
Speaker 1: on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six,
2:55:37
Speaker 1: on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four,
2:55:41
Speaker 1: on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two,
2:55:45
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth to the half of the seventh, and
2:55:48
Speaker 1: all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth And
2:55:52
Speaker 1: in certain months the month has twenty nine days, and
2:55:57
Speaker 1: once twenty eight, and Uriel showed be another law when
2:56:01
Speaker 1: the light is transferred to the moon, and on which
2:56:04
Speaker 1: side it is transferred to her by the Sun. During
2:56:07
Speaker 1: all the period during which the moon is growing in
2:56:10
Speaker 1: her light, she is transferring it to herself, when the
2:56:13
Speaker 1: opposite to the sun. During the fourteen days, her light
2:56:16
Speaker 1: is accomplished in the heaven, and when she is illumined throughout,
2:56:20
Speaker 1: her light is accomplished full in the heaven. And on
2:56:24
Speaker 1: the first day she is called the new moon, for
2:56:26
Speaker 1: on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes
2:56:30
Speaker 1: full moon, exactly on the day when the sun sets
2:56:33
Speaker 1: in the west and from the east. She rises at night,
2:56:36
Speaker 1: and the moon shines the whole night through till the
2:56:39
Speaker 1: sun rises over against her, and the moon is seen
2:56:42
Speaker 1: over against the sun on the side, whence the light
2:56:45
Speaker 1: of the moon comes forth. There again she wanes till
2:56:48
Speaker 1: all the light vanishes, and all the days of the
2:56:51
Speaker 1: month or at an end, and her circumference is empty,
2:56:54
Speaker 1: void of light. And three months she makes of thirty days,
2:56:59
Speaker 1: and at her time she makes three months of twenty
2:57:01
Speaker 1: nine days each in which she accomplishes her waning in
2:57:05
Speaker 1: the first period of time, and in the first portal
2:57:08
Speaker 1: for one hundred and seventy seven days, And in the
2:57:12
Speaker 1: time of her going out she appears for three months
2:57:14
Speaker 1: of thirty days each and for three months she appears
2:57:18
Speaker 1: of twenty nine each At night she appears like a
2:57:22
Speaker 1: man for twenty days each time, and by day she
2:57:26
Speaker 1: appears like the heaven. And there is nothing else in
2:57:29
Speaker 1: her save her light. Chapter seventy nine to eighty. Recapitulation
2:57:35
Speaker 1: of several of the laws, Chapter seventy nine. And now,
2:57:40
Speaker 1: my son, I have shown the everything, and the law
2:57:43
Speaker 1: of all the stars of the heaven is completed. And
2:57:45
Speaker 1: he showed me all the laws of these for every
2:57:48
Speaker 1: day and for every season of bearing rule, and for
2:57:51
Speaker 1: every year and for its going forth, and for the
2:57:54
Speaker 1: order prescribed to it every month and every week, and
2:57:58
Speaker 1: the waning of the moon, which takes place in the
2:58:01
Speaker 1: sixth portal. For in this sixth portal her light is accomplished.
2:58:05
Speaker 1: And after that there is the beginning of the waning,
2:58:08
Speaker 1: and the waning which takes place in the first portal
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Speaker 1: in its season, till one hundred and seventy seven days
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Speaker 1: are accomplished reckoned according to weeks twenty five weeks and
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Speaker 1: two days. She falls behind the sun and the order
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Speaker 1: of the stars exactly five days in the course of
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Speaker 1: one period. And when this place which thou seest has
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Speaker 1: been traversed. Such is the picture and sketch of every
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Speaker 1: luminary which you reel. The archangel, who is their leader,
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Speaker 1: showed unto me Chapter eighty. And in those days the
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Speaker 1: angel Uriel answered and said to me, behold, I have
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Speaker 1: shown thee everything Enich, and I have revealed everything to
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Speaker 1: thee that thou shouldt see this sun, in this moon,
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Speaker 1: and the leaders of the stars of the heaven, and
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Speaker 1: all those who turn them their tasks and times and departures.
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Speaker 1: Chapter eighty, verses two through eight perversion of nature and
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Speaker 1: the heavenly bodies owning to the sin of men. And
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Speaker 1: in the days of the sinners, the years shall be shortened,
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Speaker 1: and their seeds shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
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Speaker 1: and all things on the earth shall alter and shall
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Speaker 1: not appear in their time, and the rain shall be
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Speaker 1: kept back, and the heaven shall withhold it. And in
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Speaker 1: those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward
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Speaker 1: and shall not grow in their time, and the fruits
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Speaker 1: of the trees shall be withheld in their time. And
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Speaker 1: the moon shall alter her order and not appear at
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Speaker 1: her time. And in those days the sun shall be seen,
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Speaker 1: and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity
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Speaker 1: of the Great Chariot in the west, and shall shine
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Speaker 1: more brightly than accords with the order of light. And
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Speaker 1: many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order prescribed,
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Speaker 1: and these shall alter their orbits and tasks, and not
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Speaker 1: appear at the seasons prescribed to them. And the whole
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Speaker 1: order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
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Speaker 1: and the thoughts of those on the earth shall err
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Speaker 1: concerning them, and they shall be altered from all their ways. Yea,
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Speaker 1: they shall err and take them to be gods, and
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Speaker 1: evil shall be multiplied upon them, and punishment shall come
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Speaker 1: upon them, so as to destroy all Chapter eighty one,
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Speaker 1: the heavenly Tablets and the mission of Enoch. Chapter eighty one.
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Speaker 1: And he said, unto me, observe Enoch these heavenly tablets,
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Speaker 1: and read what is written thereon, and mark every individual fact.
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Speaker 1: And I observed the heavenly tablets and read everything which
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Speaker 1: was written thereon, and understood everything, and read the book
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Speaker 1: of all the deeds of mankind and of all the
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Speaker 1: children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to
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Speaker 1: the remotest generations. And forthwith I blessed the Great Lord,
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Speaker 1: the King of glory forever, in that he has made
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Speaker 1: all the works of the world. And I have stoled
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Speaker 1: the Lord because of his patience, and bless him because
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Speaker 1: of the children of men. And after that, I said,
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Speaker 1: blessed is a man who dies in righteousness and goodness,
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Speaker 1: concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written, and
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Speaker 1: against whom no day of judgment shall be found. And
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Speaker 1: those seven Holy Ones brought me and placed me on
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Speaker 1: the earth before the door of my house, and said
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Speaker 1: to me, declare everything to thy son, Methuselah, and show
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Speaker 1: to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in
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Speaker 1: the sight of the Lord, for he is their creator.
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Speaker 1: One year we will leave THEE with thy son, till
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Speaker 1: thou givest thy last commands, that thou mayst teach thy
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Speaker 1: children and record it for them, and testify to all
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Speaker 1: thy children. And in the second year they shall take
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Speaker 1: THEE from their midst. Let thy heart be strong, for
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Speaker 1: the good shall announce righteousness to the good. The righteous
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Speaker 1: with the righteous shall rejoice and shall offer congratulation to
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Speaker 1: one another. But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
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Speaker 1: and the apostate go down with the apostle state, and
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Speaker 1: those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the
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Speaker 1: deeds of men, and be taken away on account of
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Speaker 1: the doings of the godless. And in those days they
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Speaker 1: cease to speak to me. And I came to my
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Speaker 1: people blessing the Lord of the world. Chapter eighty two,
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Speaker 1: charge given to Enoch, the four inter calorie days, the
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Speaker 1: stars which lead the seasons in the months, Chapter eighty two.
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Speaker 1: And now, my son, Methuselah. All these things I am
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Speaker 1: recounting to THEE in writing down for THEE. And I
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Speaker 1: have revealed to THEE everything and given THEE books concerning
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Speaker 1: all these. So preserve, my son, Methuselah, the books from
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Speaker 1: thy father's hand, and see that thou deliver them to
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Speaker 1: the generations of the world. I have given wisdom to
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Speaker 1: THEE and to thy children, and thy children that shall
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Speaker 1: be to THEE, that they may give it to their
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Speaker 1: children for generations. This wisdom, namely that passeth their thought.
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Speaker 1: Those who understand it shall not sleep, but shall listen
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Speaker 1: with the ear, that they may learn this wisdom. And
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Speaker 1: it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
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Speaker 1: Blessed are all the righteous, Blessed are all those who
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Speaker 1: walk in the way of righteousness, and sin not as
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Speaker 1: the sinners, in the reckoning of all their days, in
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Speaker 1: which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and departing
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Speaker 1: from the portals for thirty days with the heads of
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Speaker 1: thousands of the order of the stars, together with the
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Speaker 1: four which are intercalated, which divide the four portions of
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Speaker 1: the year, which lead them, and enter with them four days.
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Speaker 1: Owing to them, men shall be at fault and not
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Speaker 1: reckon them in the whole reckoning of the year. Yea,
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Speaker 1: men shall be at fault and not recognize them accurately,
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Speaker 1: for they belong to the reckoning of the year, and
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Speaker 1: are truly recorded thereon forever, one in the first portal,
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Speaker 1: and one in the third, and one in the fourth,
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Speaker 1: and one in the sea. And the year is completed
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Speaker 1: in three hundred and sixty four days. And the account
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Speaker 1: thereof is accurate, and the recorded reckoning thereof exact. For
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Speaker 1: the luminaries and months and festivals and years and days.
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Speaker 1: Has Uriel shown and revealed to me to whom the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the whole creation of the world hath subjected
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Speaker 1: the host of heaven, and he has power over night
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Speaker 1: and day in the heaven to cause the light to
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Speaker 1: give light to men, sun, moon, and stars, and all
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Speaker 1: the powers of the heaven which revolve in their circular chariots.
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Speaker 1: And these are the orders of the stars which set
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Speaker 1: in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months.
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Speaker 1: And these are the names of those who lead them,
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Speaker 1: who watch that they enter at their times, in their orders,
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Speaker 1: in their seasons, in their months, in their periods of dominion,
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Speaker 1: and in their positions. Their four leaders who divide the
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Speaker 1: four parts of the year enter first, and after them
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Speaker 1: the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months.
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Speaker 1: And for the three hundred and sixty days, there are
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Speaker 1: heads over thousands who divide the days, and for the
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Speaker 1: four intercalorie days there are the leaders which sunder the
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Speaker 1: four parts of the year. And these heads over thousands
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Speaker 1: are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a station,
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Speaker 1: but their leaders make the division. And these are the
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Speaker 1: names of the leaders who divide the four parts of
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Speaker 1: the year, which are ordained Milkhayel, Haalemelek and Melechal and Naro,
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Speaker 1: and the names of those who lead them at narau
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Speaker 1: yasusa El and ilome El. These three follow the leaders
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Speaker 1: of the orders and there is one that follows the
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Speaker 1: three leaders of the orders, which follow those leaders of
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Speaker 1: stations that divide the four parts of the year. In
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, Melkayal rises first and rules,
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Speaker 1: who is named Tamanian Sun. And all the days of
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Speaker 1: his dominion whilst he bears rule are ninety one days.
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Speaker 1: And these are the signs of the days which are
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Speaker 1: to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion,
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Speaker 1: sweat and heat and calms, and all the trees bear fruit,
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Speaker 1: and leaves are produced on all the trees, and the
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Speaker 1: harvest of wheat, and the rose flowers, and all the
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Speaker 1: flowers which come forth in the field. But the trees
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Speaker 1: of the winter season become withered. And these are the
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Speaker 1: names of the leaders which are under them, barkha Al Zeleebzel,
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Speaker 1: and another who is added a head of a thousand,
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Speaker 1: called Lujasef. And the days of the dominion of this
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Speaker 1: leader are at an end. The next leader after him
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Speaker 1: is Hellimelech, whom one names the Shining Sun. And all
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Speaker 1: the days of his light are ninety one days, And
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Speaker 1: these are the signs of his days on the earth, glowing,
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Speaker 1: heat and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits and
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Speaker 1: produce all their fruits ripe and ready, and the sheep
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Speaker 1: pear and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the
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Speaker 1: earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the
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Speaker 1: fields and the wine press. These things take place in
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Speaker 1: the days of his dominion. These are the names and
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Speaker 1: the orders and the leaders of those heads of thousands
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Speaker 1: Gida y yel k l and Hal, and the name
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Speaker 1: of the head of a thousand, which is added to
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Speaker 1: them asphile And the days of his dominion are at
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Speaker 1: an end end of section eleven, chapters eighty three through
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Speaker 1: eighty eight. The Dreams slash Visions chapters eighty three through ninety.
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Speaker 1: Chapters eighty three through eighty four, The first Dreams slash
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Speaker 1: Vision on the Deluge, chapter eighty three. And now, my
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Speaker 1: son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which
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Speaker 1: I have seen, recounting them before thee two visions I
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Speaker 1: saw before I took a wife, And the one was
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Speaker 1: quite unlike the other, The first when I was learning
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Speaker 1: to write, the second before I took thy mother. When
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Speaker 1: I saw a terrible vision, and regarding them, I prayed
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Speaker 1: to the Lord I had laid me down in the
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Speaker 1: house of my grandfather Mahaliel, when I saw on a
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Speaker 1: vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and
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Speaker 1: fell to the earth. And when it fell to the earth,
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Speaker 1: I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a
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Speaker 1: great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills
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Speaker 1: sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from
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Speaker 1: their stems and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.
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Speaker 1: And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I
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Speaker 1: lifted up my voice to cry aloud, and said, the
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Speaker 1: earth is destroyed. And my grandfather mahalillel waked me as
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Speaker 1: I lay near him, and said, unto me, why dost
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Speaker 1: thou cry so, my son? And why dost thou make
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Speaker 1: such lamp? And I recounted to him the whole vision
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Speaker 1: which I had seen, and he said, unto me, a
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Speaker 1: terrible thing. Hast thou seen, my son, And of grave moment,
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Speaker 1: as thy dream slash vision, as to the secrets of
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Speaker 1: all the sin of the earth, it must sink into
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Speaker 1: the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction. And
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Speaker 1: now my son, arise and make petition to the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Glory, since thou art a believer that a remnant
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Speaker 1: may remain on the earth, and that he may not
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Speaker 1: destroy the whole earth. My son from heaven, all this
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Speaker 1: will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there
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Speaker 1: will be great destruction. After that, I arose and prayed,
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Speaker 1: and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for
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Speaker 1: the generations of the world. And I will show everything
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Speaker 1: to thee my son Methuselah. And when I had gone
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Speaker 1: forth below and seen the heaven and the sun rising
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Speaker 1: in the east, and the moon setting in the west,
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Speaker 1: and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything
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Speaker 1: as he had known it in the beginning, then I
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Speaker 1: blessed the Lord of Judgment and extolled him, because he
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Speaker 1: had made the sun to go forth from the windows
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Speaker 1: of the east, and he had ascended and rose on
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Speaker 1: the face of the heaven, and set out and kept
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Speaker 1: traversing the path shown unto him Chapter eighty four. And
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Speaker 1: I lifted up my hands in righteousness and bless the
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Speaker 1: Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of
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Speaker 1: my mouth and with the tongue of flesh, which God
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Speaker 1: has made for the children of the flesh of men,
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Speaker 1: that they should speak therewith. And he gave them breath
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Speaker 1: and a tongue and a mouth, that they should speak therewith.
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Speaker 1: Blessed be Thou, O, Lord, King, Great and mighty, in
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Speaker 1: thy greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,
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Speaker 1: King of kings, and God of the whole world, And
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Speaker 1: thy power and kingship and greatness abide forever, endeavor, and
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Speaker 1: throughout all generations, Thy dominion and all the heavens are
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Speaker 1: thy throne forever, and the whole earth thy footstool forever
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Speaker 1: and ever. For thou made and thou rulest all things.
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Speaker 1: And nothing is too hard for THEE. Wisdom departs not
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Speaker 1: from the place of thy throne, nor turns away from
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Speaker 1: Thy presence. And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything.
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Speaker 1: And there is nothing hidden from THEE, for thou seest everything.
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Speaker 1: And now the angels of thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
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Speaker 1: and upon the flesh of men, abideth thy wrath until
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Speaker 1: the great day of judgment. And now, O God and
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Speaker 1: Lord and Great King, I implore and beseech THEE to
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Speaker 1: fulfill my prayer, to leave me a posterity on earth,
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Speaker 1: and not destroy all the flesh of man and make
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Speaker 1: thee earth without inhabitants, so that there should be an
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Speaker 1: eternal destruction. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth
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Speaker 1: the flesh which has aroused thy wrath. But the flesh
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Speaker 1: of righteousness and uprightness establishes a plant of the eternal seed.
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Speaker 1: And hide not thy face from the prayer of thy servant,
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Speaker 1: O Lord, Chapter eighty five through chapter ninety The second
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Speaker 1: dream slash vision of Enoch, The History of the World
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Speaker 1: to the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom, chapter eighty five.
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Speaker 1: And after this I saw another dream, and I will
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Speaker 1: show the whole dream to thee my son. And Enoch
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Speaker 1: lifted up his voice and spake to his son, Methuselah.
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Speaker 1: To thee my son, will I speak, hear my words
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Speaker 1: incline thine ear to the dream slash vision of thy father.
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Speaker 1: Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a
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Speaker 1: vision on my bed, and behold, a bull came forth
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Speaker 1: from the earth, and that bull was white, And after
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Speaker 1: it came forth a heifer. And along with this latter
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Speaker 1: came forth two bulls, one of them black and the
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Speaker 1: other red. And that black bull goreed the red one
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Speaker 1: and pursued him over the earth, And thereupon I could
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Speaker 1: no longer see that red bull, but that black bull grew,
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Speaker 1: and that heifer went with him. And I saw that
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Speaker 1: many oxen proceeded from him, which resembled and followed him,
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Speaker 1: and that cow, that first one, went from the presence
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Speaker 1: of that first bull, in order to seek that red one,
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Speaker 1: but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation
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Speaker 1: over him, and sought him. And I looked till that
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Speaker 1: first bull came to her and quiet at her. And
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Speaker 1: from that time onward she cried no more. And after
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Speaker 1: that she bore another white bull, and after him she
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Speaker 1: bore many bulls and black cows. And I saw in
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Speaker 1: my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a
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Speaker 1: great white bull, and from him preceded many white bulls,
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Speaker 1: and they resembled him, and they began to beget many
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Speaker 1: white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, even
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Speaker 1: many Chapter eighty six, The Fall of the Angels and
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Speaker 1: the Demoralization of Mankind Chapter eighty six. And again I
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Speaker 1: saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw
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Speaker 1: the heaven, and behold, a star fell from heaven and
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Speaker 1: did arose and et and pastured amongst those oxen. And
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Speaker 1: after that I saw the large and the black oxen,
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Speaker 1: and behold, they all changed their stalls and pastures and
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Speaker 1: their cattle, and began to live with each other. And
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Speaker 1: again I saw in the vision and looked towards the heaven,
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Speaker 1: and behold, I saw many stars descend and cast themselves
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Speaker 1: down from heaven to that first star. And they became
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Speaker 1: bulls amongst those cattle, and pastured with them amongst them.
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Speaker 1: And I looked at them and saw, and behold, they
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Speaker 1: all let out their privy members like horses, and began
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Speaker 1: to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all
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Speaker 1: became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses. And all
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Speaker 1: the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and
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Speaker 1: began to bite with their teeth, and to devour, and
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Speaker 1: to gore with their horns. And they began moreover to
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Speaker 1: devour those oxen, And behold, all the children of the
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Speaker 1: earth began to tremble and quake before them, and to
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Speaker 1: flee from them. Chapter eighty seven, The Advent of the
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Speaker 1: Seven Archangels. Chapter eighty seven. And again I saw how
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Speaker 1: they began to gore each other and to devour each other,
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Speaker 1: and the earth began to cry aloud. And I raised
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Speaker 1: mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision,
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Speaker 1: and behold, there came forth from heaven beings who were
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Speaker 1: like white men. And four went forth from that place,
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Speaker 1: and three with them. And those three that had last
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Speaker 1: come forth grasped me by my hand and took me
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Speaker 1: up away from the generations of the earth, and raised
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Speaker 1: me up to a lofty place, and showed me a
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Speaker 1: tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills
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Speaker 1: were lower, And one sad unto me, remain here till
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Speaker 1: thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels and gasses,
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Speaker 1: and the stars, and the oxen, and all of them.
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Speaker 1: Chapter eighty eight. The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by
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Speaker 1: the Archangels Chapter eighty eight. And I saw one of
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Speaker 1: those four who had come forth first, and he seized
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Speaker 1: that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and
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Speaker 1: bound it hand and foot, and cast it into an abyss.
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Speaker 1: Now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.
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Speaker 1: And one of them drew a sword and gave it
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Speaker 1: to those elephants and camels and asses. Then they began
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Speaker 1: to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because
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Speaker 1: of them. And as I was beholding the vision, lo
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Speaker 1: one of those four who had come forth, stoned them
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Speaker 1: from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars,
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Speaker 1: whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound
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Speaker 1: them all hand and foot, and cast them in an
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Speaker 1: abyss of the Earth, and of Section twelve, chapter eighty nine,
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Speaker 1: Verses one through nine, the Deluge and the Deliverance of Noah,
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Speaker 1: chapter eighty nine. And one of those four went to
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Speaker 1: that white bull and instructed him in a secret, without
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Speaker 1: his being terrified. He was borne a bull and became
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Speaker 1: a man, and built for himself a great vessel, and
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Speaker 1: dwelt thereon, and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel,
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Speaker 1: and they were covered in And again I raised mine
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Speaker 1: eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof with seven
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Speaker 1: water torrents thereon, And those torrents flowed with much water
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Speaker 1: into an enclosure. And I saw again, and behold, fountains
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Speaker 1: were opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and
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Speaker 1: that water began to swell and rise upon the surface.
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Speaker 1: And I saw that enclosure till all its surface was
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Speaker 1: covered with water, and the water the darkness and mist
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Speaker 1: increased upon it. And as I looked at the height
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Speaker 1: of that water, that water had risen above the height
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Speaker 1: of that enclosure and was streaming over that enclosure, and
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Speaker 1: it stood upon the earth, and all the cattle of
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Speaker 1: that enclosure were gathered together, until I saw how they
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Speaker 1: sank and were swallowed up and perished in that water.
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Speaker 1: But that vessel floated on the water, while all the
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Speaker 1: oxen and elephants, and camels and asses sank to the
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Speaker 1: bottom with all the animals, so that I could no
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Speaker 1: longer see them, and they were not able to escape,
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Speaker 1: but perished and sank into the depths. And again I
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Speaker 1: saw in the vision till those water torrents were removed
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Speaker 1: from that high roof, and the chasms of the earth
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Speaker 1: were leveled up, and other abysses were opened. Then the
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Speaker 1: water began to run down into these till the earth
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Speaker 1: became visible. But that vessel settled on the earth, and
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Speaker 1: the darkness retired and light appeared. But that white bull,
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Speaker 1: which had become a man, came out of that vessel,
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Speaker 1: and the three bowls with him, and one of those
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Speaker 1: three was white like that bowl, and one of them
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Speaker 1: was red as blood, and one black, and that white
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Speaker 1: bull departed from them Chapter eighty nine Versus ten twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: from the death of Noah to the exodus, and they
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Speaker 1: began to bring forth beasts of the field and birds,
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Speaker 1: so that there arose different genre lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas,
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Speaker 1: wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens.
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Speaker 1: And among them was born a white bull, and they
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Speaker 1: began to bite one another. But that white bull, which
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Speaker 1: was born amongst them, began a wild ass and a
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Speaker 1: white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied. But
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Speaker 1: that bull, which was born from him, begat a black
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Speaker 1: wild boar and a white sheep, and the former begat
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Speaker 1: many boares, but that sheep begat twelve sheep, and one
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Speaker 1: of those twelve sheep had grown. They gave up one
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Speaker 1: of them to the asses, and those asses again gave
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Speaker 1: up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew
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Speaker 1: up among the world wolves. And the Lord brought the
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Speaker 1: eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture within
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Speaker 1: among the wolves, and they multiplied and became many flocks
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Speaker 1: of sheep, and the wolves began to fear them, and
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Speaker 1: they oppressed them until they destroyed their little ones, and
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Speaker 1: they cast their young into a river of much water.
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Speaker 1: But those sheep began to cry aloud on account of
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Speaker 1: their little ones, and to complain into their lord. And
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Speaker 1: a sheep which had been saved from the wolves, fled
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Speaker 1: and escaped to the wild asses. And I saw the sheep,
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Speaker 1: how they lamented and cried and besought their lord with
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Speaker 1: all their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended
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Speaker 1: at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode,
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Speaker 1: and came to them and pastured them. And he called
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Speaker 1: that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with
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Speaker 1: it concerning the wolves, that it should admonish them not
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Speaker 1: to touch the sheep. And the sheep went to the
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Speaker 1: wolves according to the word of the lord. And another
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Speaker 1: sheep met it and went with it. And the two
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Speaker 1: went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves,
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Speaker 1: and spake with them and admonished them not to touch
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Speaker 1: the sheep from henceforth. And thereupon I saw the wolves
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Speaker 1: and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power.
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Speaker 1: And the sheep cried aloud, and the lord came to
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Speaker 1: the sheep, and they began to smite those wolves, and
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Speaker 1: the wolves began to make lamentation, but the sheep became quiet,
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Speaker 1: and forthwith ceased to cry out, And I saw the
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Speaker 1: sheep till they departed from amongst the wolves. But the
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Speaker 1: eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed
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Speaker 1: in the pursuit of the sheep with all their power,
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Speaker 1: And the lord of the sheep went with them as
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Speaker 1: their leader, and all his sheep followed him, and his
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Speaker 1: face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. But
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Speaker 1: the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached
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Speaker 1: a sea of water, and the sea was divided, and
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Speaker 1: the water stood on this side and on that before
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Speaker 1: their face. And their lord led them and placed himself
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Speaker 1: between them and thee. And as those wolves did not
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Speaker 1: yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of
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Speaker 1: that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep. And those
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Speaker 1: wolves ran after them into that sea, and when they
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Speaker 1: saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee
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Speaker 1: before his face. But that sea gathered itself together and
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Speaker 1: became as it had been created, and the water swelled
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Speaker 1: and rose till it covered those wolves, and I saw
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Speaker 1: till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and
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Speaker 1: were drowned. Chapter eighty nine, Verses twenty eight to forty
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Speaker 1: Israel in the desert, the giving of the law, the
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Speaker 1: entrance into Palestine. But the sheep escaped from that water
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Speaker 1: and went forth into a wilderness where there was no
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Speaker 1: water and no grass. And they began to open their
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Speaker 1: eyes into sea. And I saw the Lord of the
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Speaker 1: sheep pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and
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Speaker 1: that sheep going and leading them, and that sheep ascended
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Speaker 1: to the summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the sheep to them. And after that I saw
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Speaker 1: the Lord of the sheep, who stood before them, and
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Speaker 1: his appearance was great and terrible and majestic. And all
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Speaker 1: those sheep saw him and were afraid before his face.
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Speaker 1: And they all feared and trembled because of him. And
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Speaker 1: they cried to that sheep with them, which was amongst them,
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Speaker 1: we are not able to stand before our lord or
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Speaker 1: to behold him. And that sheep, which led them again,
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Speaker 1: ascended to the summit of that rock. But the sheep
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Speaker 1: began to be blinded and to wander from the way
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Speaker 1: which he had showed them, But that sheep whato 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
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Speaker 1: sheep their leader, which had become a man withdrew from
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Speaker 1: them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it
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Speaker 1: and cried over it with a great crying. And I
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Speaker 1: saw till they left off crying for that sheep, and
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Speaker 1: crossed that stream of water, and there arose the two
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Speaker 1: sheep as leaders in the 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
3:25:24
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
3:25:34
Speaker 1: to butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and wild
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Speaker 1: boars till he had destroyed them all. And that sheep,
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Speaker 1: whose eyes were opened, saw that ram which was amongst
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Speaker 1: the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to
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Speaker 1: butt those sheep and trampled upon them, and behaved itself unseemly.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to
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Speaker 1: another lamb and raised it to being a ram and
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Speaker 1: leader of the sheep sheep, instead of that ram which
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Speaker 1: had forsaken its glory. And it went to it and
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Speaker 1: spake to it alone, and raised it to being a ram,
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Speaker 1: and made it the prince and leader of the sheep.
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Speaker 1: But during all these things, those dogs oppressed the sheep,
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Speaker 1: and the first ram pursued that second ram, and that
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Speaker 1: second ram arose and fled before it. And I saw
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Speaker 1: till those dogs pulled down the first ram, and that
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Speaker 1: second ram arose and led the little sheep, and those
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Speaker 1: sheep grew and multiplied, But all the dogs and foxes
3:26:35
Speaker 1: and wild boars feared and fled before it, And that
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Speaker 1: ram butted and killed the wild beasts, and those wild
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Speaker 1: beasts had no longer any power among the sheep, and
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Speaker 1: robbed them no more of aught, And that ram begat
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Speaker 1: many sheep and fell asleep, and a little sheep became
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Speaker 1: ram in its stead and became prince and leader of
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Speaker 1: those sheep. And that house became great and broad, and
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Speaker 1: it was built for those sheep, and a tower, lofty
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Speaker 1: and great, was built on the house for the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the sheep. And that house was low, but the
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Speaker 1: tower was elevated and lofty, and the Lord of the
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Speaker 1: sheep stood on that tower, and they offered a full
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Speaker 1: table before him. Chapter eighty nine, verses fifty one through
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Speaker 1: sixty seven, the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to
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Speaker 1: the destruction of Jerusalem. And again I saw those sheep
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Speaker 1: that they again aired and went many ways, and forsook
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Speaker 1: that their house. And the Lord of the sheep called
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Speaker 1: some from amongst the sheep and sent them to the sheep.
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Speaker 1: But the sheep began to slay them, and one of
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Speaker 1: them was saved and was not slain, and it sped
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Speaker 1: away and cried aloud over the sheep, and they sought
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Speaker 1: to slay it, But the Lord of the sheep saved
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Speaker 1: it from the sheep and brought it up to me
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Speaker 1: and caused it to dwell there. And many other sheep
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Speaker 1: he sent to those sheep to testify unto them and
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Speaker 1: lament over them. And after that I saw that when
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Speaker 1: they forsook the house of the Lord and his tower,
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Speaker 1: they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded. And
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Speaker 1: I saw the Lord of the sheep, how he wrought
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Speaker 1: much slaughter amongst them in their herds, until those sheep
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Speaker 1: invited that slaughter and betrayed his place. And he gave
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Speaker 1: them over into the hands of the lions and tigers,
3:28:22
Speaker 1: and wolves and hyenas, and into the hands of the foxes,
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Speaker 1: and to all the wild beasts. And those wild beasts
3:28:29
Speaker 1: began to tear in pieces those sheep. And I saw
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Speaker 1: that he forsook that their house and their tower, and
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Speaker 1: gave them all into the hand of the lions, to
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Speaker 1: tear and devour them, into the hand of all the
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Speaker 1: wild beasts. And I began to cry out loud with
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Speaker 1: all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of
3:28:47
Speaker 1: the sheep, and to represent to him in regard to
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Speaker 1: the sheep, that they were devoured by all the wild beasts.
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Speaker 1: But he remained unmoved, though he saw it and rejoiced
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Speaker 1: that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left
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Speaker 1: them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts.
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Speaker 1: And he called seventy shepherds and cast those sheep to them,
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Speaker 1: that they might pasture them. And he spake to the
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Speaker 1: shepherds and their companions, let each individual of you pasture
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Speaker 1: the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you.
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Speaker 1: That do ye, and I will deliver them over unto
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Speaker 1: you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are
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Speaker 1: to be destroyed, and them destroy ye. And he gave
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Speaker 1: over unto them those sheep, and he called another and
3:29:34
Speaker 1: spake unto him. Observe and mark everything that the shepherds
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Speaker 1: will do to those sheep, for they will destroy more
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Speaker 1: of them than I have commanded them. And every excess
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Speaker 1: and the destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds.
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Speaker 1: Record namely how many they destroy according to my command,
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Speaker 1: and how many according to their own caprice. Record against
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Speaker 1: every individual shepherd all the destruction he affects, and read
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Speaker 1: out before me by number, how many they destroy, and
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Speaker 1: how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may
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Speaker 1: have this as a testimony against them, and know every
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Speaker 1: deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see
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Speaker 1: what they do, whether or not they abide by my
3:30:19
Speaker 1: command which I have commanded them, But they shall not
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Speaker 1: know it, And thou shalt not declare it to them,
3:30:26
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,
3:30:34
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 demolish that house.
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Speaker 1: Came exceedingly sorrowful over that tower, because that house of
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Speaker 1: the sheep was demolished. And afterwards I was unable to
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Speaker 1: see if those sheep entered that house. Chapter eighty nine,
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Speaker 1: Verses sixty eight through seventy one, first period of the
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Speaker 1: Angelic Rulers, from the destruction of Jerusalem to the return
3:31:20
Speaker 1: from the captivity. And the shepherds and their associates delivered
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Speaker 1: over those sheep to all the wild beasts to devour them,
3:31:28
Speaker 1: and each one of them received in his time a
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Speaker 1: definite number. It was written by the other in a book,
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Speaker 1: how many each one of them destroyed of them, and
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Speaker 1: each one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed.
3:31:42
Speaker 1: And I began to weep and lament on account of
3:31:44
Speaker 1: those sheep. And thus in the vision I saw that
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Speaker 1: one who wrote, how he wrote down every one that
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Speaker 1: was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and carried
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Speaker 1: up and laid down, and showed actually the whole book
3:31:58
Speaker 1: to the Lord of the sheep, even everything that they
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Speaker 1: had done, and all that each one of them had
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Speaker 1: made away with, and all that they had given over
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Speaker 1: to destruction. And the book was read before the Lord
3:32:11
Speaker 1: of the sheep. And he took the book from his
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Speaker 1: hand and read it, and sealed it and laid it down.
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Speaker 1: Chapter eighty nine, Verses seventy two through seventy seven, second
3:32:22
Speaker 1: period from the time of Cyrus to that of Alexander
3:32:25
Speaker 1: the Great, and forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured
3:32:29
Speaker 1: for twelve hours, and behold, three of those sheep turned
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Speaker 1: back and came and entered and began to build up
3:32:35
Speaker 1: all that had fallen down of that house. But the
3:32:38
Speaker 1: wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able,
3:32:42
Speaker 1: and they began again to build as before, and they
3:32:45
Speaker 1: reared up that tower, and it was named the High Tower.
3:32:49
Speaker 1: And they began again to place a table before the tower,
3:32:52
Speaker 1: but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure.
3:32:55
Speaker 1: And as touching all this, the eyes of those sheep
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Speaker 1: were blinded, so that they saw no and the eyes
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Speaker 1: of their shepherds likewise, And they delivered them in large
3:33:05
Speaker 1: numbers to their shepherds for destruction. And they trampled the
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Speaker 1: sheep with their feet and devoured them. And the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were
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Speaker 1: dispersed over the field and mingled with them, in other words,
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Speaker 1: the beasts, and they, in other words, the shepherds did
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Speaker 1: not save them out of the hand of the beasts.
3:33:25
Speaker 1: And this one who wrote the book carried it up
3:33:28
Speaker 1: and showed it and read it before the Lord of
3:33:30
Speaker 1: the sheep, and implored him on their account, and besought
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Speaker 1: him on their account, as he showed him all the
3:33:37
Speaker 1: doings of the shepherds, and gave testimony before him against
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Speaker 1: all the shepherds. And he took the actual book and
3:33:44
Speaker 1: laid it down beside him and departed. And of Section thirteen,
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Speaker 1: chapter ninety, verses one through five, third period from Alexander
3:33:55
Speaker 1: the Great to the Greco Syrian domination. And I saw
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Speaker 1: till that in this manner thirty five shepherds undertook the
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Speaker 1: pasturing of the sheep, and they severally completed their periods,
3:34:09
Speaker 1: as did the first, and others received them into their
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Speaker 1: hands to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in
3:34:16
Speaker 1: his own period. And after that I saw in my
3:34:20
Speaker 1: vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures,
3:34:25
Speaker 1: the kites, the ravens. But the eagles led all the birds,
3:34:28
Speaker 1: and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick
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Speaker 1: out their eyes, and to devour their flesh. And the
3:34:34
Speaker 1: sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by
3:34:37
Speaker 1: the birds. And as for me, I looked and lamented
3:34:41
Speaker 1: in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep.
3:34:44
Speaker 1: And I saw untill those sheep were devoured by the
3:34:47
Speaker 1: dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh,
3:34:50
Speaker 1: nor skin, nor sinew remaining on them, till only their
3:34:54
Speaker 1: bones stood there. And their bones too fell to the earth,
3:34:58
Speaker 1: and the sheep became few and I saw untill that
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Speaker 1: twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their
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Speaker 1: several periods fifty eight times, Chapter ninety, verses six through twelve.
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Speaker 1: Fourth period, from the Grecosyrian domination to the Maccabean revolt.
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Speaker 1: But behold, lambs were borne by those white sheep, and
3:35:20
Speaker 1: they began to open their eyes and to see, and
3:35:22
Speaker 1: to cry to the sheep. Yea, they cried to them,
3:35:25
Speaker 1: but they did not hearken to what they said to them,
3:35:28
Speaker 1: but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded.
3:35:33
Speaker 1: And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew
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Speaker 1: upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and
3:35:38
Speaker 1: dashed the sheep in pieces, and devoured them. And I
3:35:42
Speaker 1: saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens
3:35:45
Speaker 1: cast down their horns, and I saw till there sprouted
3:35:49
Speaker 1: a great horn of one of those sheep, and their
3:35:51
Speaker 1: eyes were opened, and it looked at them, and their
3:35:55
Speaker 1: eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep, and the
3:35:57
Speaker 1: rams saw it, and all ran to it. And notwithstanding
3:36:01
Speaker 1: all this, those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites
3:36:05
Speaker 1: still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them
3:36:08
Speaker 1: and devouring them. Still the sheep remained silent, but the
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Speaker 1: rams lamented and cried out, and those ravens fought and
3:36:17
Speaker 1: battled with it, and sought to lay low its horn,
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Speaker 1: but they had no power over it. Chapter ninety, verses
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Speaker 1: thirteen through nineteen, the last assault of the Gentiles on
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Speaker 1: the Jews, where verses thirteen through fifteen and sixteen through
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Speaker 1: eighteen are doublets. And I saw till the shepherds and eagles,
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Speaker 1: and those vultures and kites came, and they cried to
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Speaker 1: the ravens that they should break the horn of that ram,
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Speaker 1: And they battled and fought with it, and it battled
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Speaker 1: with them and cried that its help might come. And
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Speaker 1: I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep,
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Speaker 1: and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the
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Speaker 1: field to slay them. And all the beasts and the
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Speaker 1: birds of the heaven fled before their face. And I
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Speaker 1: saw till that man who wrote down the names of
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Speaker 1: the shepherds and carried up into the presence of the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the sheep, came and helped it, and showed
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Speaker 1: it everything he had come down for the help of
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Speaker 1: that ram. And I saw till the Lord of the
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Speaker 1: Sheep came unto them in wrath, and all who saw
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Speaker 1: him fled, and they all fell into his shadow from
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Speaker 1: before his face. Chapter ninety, verses twenty through twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: Judgment of the Fallen Angels, the Shepherds, and the Apostates.
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Speaker 1: And I saw till a throne was erected in the
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Speaker 1: pleasant land, and the Lord of the Sheep sat himself thereon,
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Speaker 1: and the other took the sealed books and opened those
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Speaker 1: books before the Lord of the Sheep. And the Lord
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Speaker 1: called those men the seven first White Ones, and commanded
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Speaker 1: that they should bring before him, beginning with the first star,
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Speaker 1: which led the way, all the stars, whose privy members
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Speaker 1: were like those of horses. And they brought them all
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Speaker 1: before him. And he said to that man who wrote
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Speaker 1: before him, being one of those seven White Ones, and
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Speaker 1: said unto him, take those seventy shepherds to whom I
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Speaker 1: delivered the sheep, and who, taking them on their own authorities,
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Speaker 1: slew more than I commanded them. And behold they were
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Speaker 1: all bound, I saw, and they all stood before him.
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Speaker 1: And the judgment was held first over the stars, and
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Speaker 1: they were judged and found guilty, and went to the
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Speaker 1: place of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss
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Speaker 1: full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire.
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Speaker 1: And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and
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Speaker 1: they were cast into that fiery abyss. And I saw
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Speaker 1: at that time how alike abyss was opened in the
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Speaker 1: midst of the earth, full of fire. And they brought
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Speaker 1: those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty,
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Speaker 1: and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned. Now
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Speaker 1: this abyss was to the right of that house, and
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Speaker 1: I saw those sheep burning, and their bones burnt. Chapter ninety,
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Speaker 1: verses twenty eight through thirty eight The New Jerusalem, the
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Speaker 1: conversion of the surviving Gentiles, the resurrection of the Righteous
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Speaker 1: the Messiah. And I stood up to sea till they
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Speaker 1: folded up that old house and carried off all the pillars,
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Speaker 1: and all the beams and ornaments of the house were
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Speaker 1: at the same time folded up with it. And they
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Speaker 1: carried it off and laid it in a place in
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Speaker 1: the south of the land. And I saw till the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the sheep brought a new house, greater and
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Speaker 1: loftier than that first, and set it up in the
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Speaker 1: place of the first, which had been folded up. All
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Speaker 1: its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and
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Speaker 1: larger than those of the first, the old one which
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Speaker 1: he had taken away, and all the sheep were within it.
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Speaker 1: And I saw all the sheep which had been left,
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Speaker 1: and all the beasts on the earth, and all the
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Speaker 1: birds of the heaven falling down and doing homage to
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Speaker 1: those sheep, and making petition to and obeying them in everything.
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Speaker 1: And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and
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Speaker 1: had seized me by my hand, who had taken me
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Speaker 1: up before, and the hand of that ram also seizing
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Speaker 1: hold of me. They took me up and set me
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Speaker 1: down in the midst of those sheep before the judgment
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Speaker 1: took place. And those sheep were all white, and their
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Speaker 1: wool was abundant and clean, and all that had been
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Speaker 1: destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field
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Speaker 1: and all the birds of the heaven assembled in that house.
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Speaker 1: And the lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy
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Speaker 1: because they were all good and had returned to his house.
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Speaker 1: And I saw till they laid down that sword which
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Speaker 1: had been given to the sheep, and they brought it
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Speaker 1: back into the house, and it was sealed before the
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Speaker 1: presence of the Lord. And all the sheep were invited
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Speaker 1: into that house. But it held them not, and the
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Speaker 1: eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good,
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Speaker 1: and there was not one among them that did not see.
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Speaker 1: And I saw that that house was large and broad
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Speaker 1: and very full. And I saw that a white bull
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Speaker 1: was born with large horns, and all the beasts of
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Speaker 1: the field, and all the birds of the air feared
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Speaker 1: him and made petition to him all the time. And
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Speaker 1: I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they
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Speaker 1: all became white bulls, and the first among them became
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Speaker 1: a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and
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Speaker 1: had great black horns on its head, and the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the sheep rejoiced over it, and over all the
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Speaker 1: oxen and I slept in their midst, and I awoke
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Speaker 1: and saw everything. This is the vision which I saw
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Speaker 1: while I slept, And I awoke and blessed the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Righteousness and gave him glory. Then I wept with
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Speaker 1: a great weeping, and my tears stayed not till I
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Speaker 1: could no longer endure it. When I saw they flowed
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Speaker 1: on account of what I had seen. For everything shall
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Speaker 1: come and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men
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Speaker 1: in their order were shown to me. On that night
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Speaker 1: I remembered the first dream, and because of it I
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Speaker 1: wept and was troubled, because I had seen that vision.
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Speaker 1: And of Chapter ninety, chapters ninety one through ninety seven,
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Speaker 1: the concluding section of the book chapters ninety two through
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Speaker 1: one hundred and five, Chapter ninety two and ninety one,
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Speaker 1: verses one through ten, and verses eighteen through nineteen. Enix's
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Speaker 1: Book of Admonition for his Children, Chapter ninety two, the
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Speaker 1: book written by Enoch. Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine
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Speaker 1: of wisdom, which is praised of all men and a
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Speaker 1: judge of all the earth, for all my children who
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Speaker 1: shall dwell on the earth, and for the future generations
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Speaker 1: who shall observe uprightness and peace. Let not your spirit
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Speaker 1: be troubled on account of the times. For the Holy
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Speaker 1: and Great One has appointed days for all things, and
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Speaker 1: the righteous One shall arise from sleep, shall arise and
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Speaker 1: walk in the paths of righteousness, And all his path
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Speaker 1: and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace. He
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Speaker 1: will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness,
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Speaker 1: and he will give him power, so that he shall
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Speaker 1: be endowed with goodness and righteousness, and he shall walk
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Speaker 1: in eternal light, and sin shall perish in darkness forever,
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Speaker 1: and shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.
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Speaker 1: Chapter ninety one, Verses one through eleven and eighteen through
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Speaker 1: nineteen Enoch's admonition to his children Chapter ninety one. And
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Speaker 1: now my son Methuselah called to me all thy brothers,
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Speaker 1: and gathered together to me all the sons of thy mother.
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Speaker 1: For the word calls me, and the spirit is poured
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Speaker 1: out upon me, that I may show you everything that
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Speaker 1: shall befall you forever. And thereupon methusliwend and summoned to
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Speaker 1: him all his brothers, and assembled his relatives, and he
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Speaker 1: spake unto all the children of righteousness, and said, hear, ye,
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Speaker 1: sons of Enoch, all the words of your father, And
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Speaker 1: hearken a right to the voice of my mouth. For
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Speaker 1: I exhort you and say unto you, beloved, love uprightness,
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Speaker 1: and walk therein and draw not nigh to uprightness with
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Speaker 1: a double heart, and associate not with those of a
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Speaker 1: double heart, but walk in righteousness, my sons, and it
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Speaker 1: shall guide you on good paths, and righteousness shall be
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Speaker 1: your companion. For I know that violence must increase on
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Speaker 1: the earth, and a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
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Speaker 1: and all unrighteousness come to an end. Yea, it shall
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Speaker 1: be cut off from its roots, and its whole structure
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Speaker 1: be destroyed, and unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
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Speaker 1: and all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence and
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Speaker 1: transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree. And when sin
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Speaker 1: and unrighteousness, and blasphemy and violence in all kinds of
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Speaker 1: deeds increase, and apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, a
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Speaker 1: great chastisement shall come from Heaven upon all these, and
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Speaker 1: the Holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement
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Speaker 1: to execute judgment on earth. In those days, violence shall
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Speaker 1: be cut off from its roots, and the roots of
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Speaker 1: unrighteousness together with deceit, and they shall be destroyed from
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Speaker 1: under heaven. And all the idols of the heathen shall
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Speaker 1: be abandoned, and the temples burned with fire, and they
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Speaker 1: shall remove them from the whole earth. And they I e.
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Speaker 1: The heathen, shall be cast into the judgment of fire,
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Speaker 1: and shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgment forever.
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Speaker 1: And the righteous shall arise from their sleep, and wisdom
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Speaker 1: shall arise and be given unto them. And after that
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Speaker 1: the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the
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Speaker 1: sinners shall be destroyed by the sword, shall be cut
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Speaker 1: off from the blasphemers in every place, And those who
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Speaker 1: plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by
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Speaker 1: the sword. And now I tell you, my sons, and
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Speaker 1: show you the passive riseceighteousness and the paths of violence. Yea,
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Speaker 1: I will show them to you again that you may
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Speaker 1: know what will come to pass. And now hearken unto me,
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Speaker 1: my sons, and walk in the paths of righteousness, and
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Speaker 1: walk not in the paths of violence, for all who
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Speaker 1: walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish forever. Chapter
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Speaker 1: ninety three, Chapter ninety one, twelve through seventeen, The Apocalypse
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Speaker 1: of Weeks Chapter ninety three, and after that, Enoch both
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Speaker 1: gave and began to recount from the books, and Enoch said,
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Speaker 1: concerning the children of righteousness, and concerning the elect of
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Speaker 1: the world, and concerning the plant of uprightness, I will
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Speaker 1: speak these things, yea, I Enoch will declare them unto you,
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Speaker 1: my sons, according to that which appeared to me in
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Speaker 1: the heavenly vision, and which I have known through the
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Speaker 1: word of the Holy Angels, and have learnt from the
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Speaker 1: heavenly tablets. And Enoch began to recount from the books
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Speaker 1: and said, I was born the seventh in the first week,
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Speaker 1: while judgment and righteousness still endured, and after me there
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Speaker 1: shall arise. In the second week great wickedness and deceit
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Speaker 1: shall have sprung up, and in it there shall be
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Speaker 1: the first end, and in it a man shall be saved.
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Speaker 1: And after it is ended, unrighteousness shall grow up, and
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Speaker 1: a law shall be made for the sinners. And after that,
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Speaker 1: in the third week, at its close, a man shall
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Speaker 1: be elected as the plant of righteous judgment, and his
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Speaker 1: posterity shall become the plant of righteousness forevermore. And after that,
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Speaker 1: in the fourth week, at its close, visions of the
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Speaker 1: holy and righteous shall be seen, and a law for
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Speaker 1: all generations, and an enclosure shall be made for them,
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Speaker 1: And after that, in the fifth week, at its close,
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Speaker 1: the House of Glory and Dominion shall be built forever.
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Speaker 1: And after that in the sixth week, all who live
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Speaker 1: in it shall be blinded, and the hearts of all
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Speaker 1: of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom, and in it a
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Speaker 1: man shall ascend. And at its close the House of
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Speaker 1: Dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race
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Speaker 1: of the Chosen Brute shall be dispersed. And after that,
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Speaker 1: in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise, and
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Speaker 1: many shall be its deeds, and all its steeds shall
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Speaker 1: be apostate, And at its close shall be elected the
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Speaker 1: elect righteous of the eternal Plant of Righteousness, to receive
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Speaker 1: sevenfold instruction concerning all his creation. For who is there
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Speaker 1: of all the children of men that is able to
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Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled,
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Speaker 1: and who can think his thoughts? And who is there
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Speaker 1: that can behold all the works of heaven? And how
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Speaker 1: should there be one who could behold the heaven? And
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Speaker 1: who is there that could understand the things of heaven
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Speaker 1: and see a soul or a spirit, and could tell
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Speaker 1: thereof or ascend and see all their ends and think
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Speaker 1: them or do like them? And who is there of
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Speaker 1: all men that could know what is the breadth and
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Speaker 1: the length of the earth, and to whom has been
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Speaker 1: shown the measure of all of them? Or is there
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Speaker 1: any one who could discern the length of the heaven?
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Speaker 1: And how great is its height, and upon what it
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Speaker 1: is founded? And how great is the number of the stars?
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Speaker 1: And where all the luminaries rest Chapter ninety one, Verses
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Speaker 1: twelve through seventeen. The last three weeks Chapter ninety one.
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Speaker 1: And after that there shall be another, the eighth week,
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Speaker 1: that of righteousness, and a sword shall be given to it,
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Speaker 1: that a righteous judgment may be executed on the oppressors,
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Speaker 1: and sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous,
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Speaker 1: and at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
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Speaker 1: and a house shall be built for the Great King
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Speaker 1: and glory forevermore, and all mankind shall look to the
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Speaker 1: path of uprightness. And after that, in the ninth week,
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Speaker 1: the righteous judgment shall be revealed to the whole world,
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Speaker 1: and all the works of the godless shall vanish from
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Speaker 1: all the earth, and the world shall be written down
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Speaker 1: for destruction. And after this, in the tenth week, in
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Speaker 1: the seventh part, there shall be the Great eternal Judgment,
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Speaker 1: in which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels, and
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Speaker 1: the first heaven shall depart and pass away, and a
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Speaker 1: new heaven shall appear, and all the powers of the
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Speaker 1: heaven shall give sevenfold light. And after that there will
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Speaker 1: be many weeks without number forever, and all shall be
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Speaker 1: in goodness and righteousness, and sin shall no more be
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Speaker 1: mentioned forever. Chapter ninety four, Verses one through five admonitions
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Speaker 1: to the righteous, Chapter ninety four. And now I say
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Speaker 1: unto you, my sons, love righteousness, and walk therein, For
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Speaker 1: the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation. But the
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Speaker 1: paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish. And
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Speaker 1: to certain men of a generation shall the paths of
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Speaker 1: violence and of death be revealed, and they shall hold
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Speaker 1: themselves afar from them, and shall not follow them. And
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Speaker 1: now I say unto you, the righteous, walk not in
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Speaker 1: the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
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Speaker 1: and draw not nigh to them, lest you be destroyed.
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Speaker 1: But seek and choose for yourself's righteousness and an elect life,
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Speaker 1: and walk in the paths of peace, and ye shall
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Speaker 1: live and prosper. And hold fast my words in the
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Speaker 1: thoughts of your hearts, and suffer them not to be
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Speaker 1: effaced from your hearts. For I know that sinners will
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Speaker 1: tempt men to evily entreat wisdom, so that no place
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Speaker 1: may be found for her, and no manner of temptation
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Speaker 1: may minish. Chapter ninety four, verses six through eleven, Woes
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Speaker 1: for the sinners. Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression,
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Speaker 1: and lay deceit as a foundation, for they shall be
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Speaker 1: suddenly overthrown, and they shall have no peace. Woe to
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Speaker 1: those who build their houses with sin, for from all
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Speaker 1: their foundations shall they be overthrown, and by the sword
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Speaker 1: shall they fall. And those who acquire gold and silver
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Speaker 1: and judgment suddenly shall perish. Woe to you, ye rich,
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Speaker 1: for ye have trusted in your riches, and from your
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Speaker 1: rich lies shall you depart, Because you have not remembered
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Speaker 1: the most high in the days of your riches. Ye
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Speaker 1: have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness, and have become ready for
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Speaker 1: the day of slaughter, and the day of darkness, and
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Speaker 1: the day of the Great judgment. Thus I speak and
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Speaker 1: declare unto you he who hath created you will overthrow you,
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Speaker 1: and for your fall there shall be no compassion, and
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Speaker 1: your creator will rejoice at your destruction. And your righteous
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Speaker 1: ones in those days shall be a reproach to the
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Speaker 1: sinners and the godless. Chapter ninety five enox grief fresh
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Speaker 1: woes against the sinners. Chapter ninety five, Oh, that mine
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Speaker 1: eyes were a cloud of waters, that I might weep
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Speaker 1: over you and pour down my tears as a cloud
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Speaker 1: of waters, that so I might rest from my trouble
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Speaker 1: of heart. Who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness,
3:52:53
Speaker 1: And so judgment shall overtake you sinners. Fear not the sinners,
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Speaker 1: ye righteous, For again will the Lord deliver them into
3:53:01
Speaker 1: your hands, that ye may execute judgment upon them according
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Speaker 1: to your desires. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which
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Speaker 1: cannot be reversed. Healing shall therefore be far from you
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Speaker 1: because of your sins. Woe to you who requite your
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Speaker 1: neighbor with evil, for you shall be requited according to
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Speaker 1: your works. Woe to you lying witnesses, and to those
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Speaker 1: who weigh out injustice, for suddenly shall you perish. Woe
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Speaker 1: to you sinners, for you persecute the righteous, for you
3:53:33
Speaker 1: shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice, and
3:53:37
Speaker 1: heavy shall its yoke be upon you. Chapter ninety six
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Speaker 1: Grounds of Hopefulness for the righteous, Woes for the wicked.
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Speaker 1: Chapter ninety six. Be hopeful, ye, righteous, For suddenly shall
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Speaker 1: the sinners perish before you, and you shall have lordship
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Speaker 1: over them according to your desires. And in the day
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Speaker 1: of the turbulation of the sinners, your children shall mount
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Speaker 1: and rise as eagles, and higher than the vultures will
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Speaker 1: be your nest. And ye shall ascend and enter the
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Speaker 1: crevices of the earth and the clefts of the rock
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Speaker 1: forever as conies before the unrighteous, and the sirens shall
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Speaker 1: sigh because of you and weep. Wherefore, fear not, ye
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Speaker 1: that have suffered, For healing shall be your portion, and
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Speaker 1: a bright light shall enlighten you, and the voice of
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Speaker 1: rest ye shall hear from heaven. Woe unto you, ye sinners,
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Speaker 1: for your riches make you appear like the righteous. But
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Speaker 1: your hearts convict you of being sinners. And this fact
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Speaker 1: shall be a testimony against you, for a memorial of
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Speaker 1: your evil deeds. Woe to you who devour the finest
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Speaker 1: of the wheat and drink wine in large bowls, and
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Speaker 1: tread underfoot the lowly with your might. Woe to you
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Speaker 1: who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall ye
3:54:51
Speaker 1: be consumed and wither away, because ye have forsaken the
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Speaker 1: fountain of life. Woe to you, who work on righteousness
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Speaker 1: and deceit and blasphemy. It shall be a memorial against
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Speaker 1: you for evil. Woe to you, ye Mighty, who with
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Speaker 1: might oppress the righteous, For the day of your destruction
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Speaker 1: is coming. In those days, Many and good days shall
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Speaker 1: come to the righteous in the day of your judgment
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Speaker 1: Chapter ninety seven. The evils in store for sinners and
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Speaker 1: the possessors of unrighteous wealth Chapter ninety seven. Believe, ye, Righteous,
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Speaker 1: that the sinners will become a shame and perish in
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Speaker 1: the day of unrighteousness. Be it known unto you, ye sinners,
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Speaker 1: that the Most High is mindful of your destruction, and
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Speaker 1: the angels of Heaven rejoice over your destruction. What will
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Speaker 1: ye do, ye sinners, And whither will ye flee on
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Speaker 1: that day of judgment? When you hear the voice of
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Speaker 1: the prayer of the righteous, yea ye shall fair like
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Speaker 1: unto them against whom this word shall be a testimony.
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Speaker 1: Ye have been companions of sinners, And in those days
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Speaker 1: the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord
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Speaker 1: and for you. The days of your judgment shall come,
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Speaker 1: and all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read
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Speaker 1: out before the Great Holy One, and your faces shall
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Speaker 1: be covered with shame, and he will reject every work
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Speaker 1: which has grounded on unrighteousness. Woe to you, ye, sinners,
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Speaker 1: who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land,
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Speaker 1: whose remembrance is evil against you. Woe to you who
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Speaker 1: acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness. And say, we have
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Speaker 1: become rich with riches and half possessions, and have acquired
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Speaker 1: everything we have desired. And now let us do what
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Speaker 1: we proposed. For we have gathered silver, and many are
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Speaker 1: the husbandmen in our houses, and our grainary is our
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Speaker 1: brim full as with water, yea, And like water, your
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Speaker 1: lies shall flow away. For your riches shall not abide,
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Speaker 1: but speedily ascend from you, for you have acquired it
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Speaker 1: all in unrighteousness, and you shall be given over to
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Speaker 1: a great curse. End of Section fifteen, Chapter ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: Self indulgence of sinners sin when originated by man. All
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Speaker 1: sin recorded in heaven woes for the sinners Chapter ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: And now I swear unto you, to the wise and
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Speaker 1: to the foolish, For ye shall have manifold experiences on
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Speaker 1: the earth. For ye men shall put on more adornments
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Speaker 1: than a woman, and colored garments more than a virgin.
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Speaker 1: In royalty, and in grandeur, and in power, and in silver,
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Speaker 1: and in gold, and in purple, and in splendor, and
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Speaker 1: in food, they shall be poured out as water. Therefore
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Speaker 1: they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, and they
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Speaker 1: shall perish thereby, together with their possessions, and with all
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Speaker 1: their glory and their splendor, And in shame, and in slaughter,
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Speaker 1: and in great destitution, their spirits shall be cast into
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Speaker 1: the furnace of fire. I have sworn unto you, ye sinners,
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Speaker 1: as a mountain has not become a slave, and a
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Speaker 1: hill does not become the handmaid of a woman. Even
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Speaker 1: so sin has not been sent upon the earth, but
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Speaker 1: Man of himself has created it. And under a great
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Speaker 1: curse shall they fall who commit it. And barrenness has
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Speaker 1: not been given to the woman, but on account of
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Speaker 1: the deeds of her own hands, she dies without children.
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Speaker 1: I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy
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Speaker 1: Great One, that all your evil deeds are revealed in
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Speaker 1: the heavens, and that none of your deeds of oppression
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Speaker 1: are covered and hidden. And do not think in your spirit,
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Speaker 1: nor say in your heart that ye do not know,
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Speaker 1: and that you do not see. That every sin is
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Speaker 1: every day recorded in heaven in the presence of the
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Speaker 1: Most High. From henceforth ye know that all your oppression,
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Speaker 1: wherewith ye opress, is written down every day till the
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Speaker 1: day of your judgment. Woe to you, ye fools, for
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Speaker 1: through your folly shall ye perish, and ye transgress against
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Speaker 1: the wise and so good hap shall not be your portion.
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Speaker 1: And now know ye that ye are prepared for the
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Speaker 1: day of destruction. Wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners,
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Speaker 1: but ye shall depart and die, for ye know no ransom,
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Speaker 1: for ye are prepared for the day of the Great Judgment,
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Speaker 1: for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness
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Speaker 1: and eat blood. Whence have ye good things to eat
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Speaker 1: and to drink, and to be filled from all the
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Speaker 1: good things which the Lord the Most High has placed
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Speaker 1: in abundance on the earth. Therefore ye shall have no peace.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness, wherefore
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Speaker 1: do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves, Know that
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Speaker 1: ye shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous,
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Speaker 1: and they shall cut off your necks and slay you,
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Speaker 1: and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who
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Speaker 1: rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous, for no grave
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Speaker 1: shall be dug for you. Woe to you who said
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Speaker 1: at naught the words of the righteous, for ye shall
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Speaker 1: have no hope of life. Woe to you who write down,
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Speaker 1: lying in godless words, for they write down their lives
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Speaker 1: that men may hear them enact godlessly towards their neighbor.
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Speaker 1: Therefore they shall have no peace, but die a sudden death.
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Speaker 1: Chapter ninety nine. Woes pronounced on the godless, the lawbreakers,
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Speaker 1: evil plight of sinners in the last days. Further woes
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Speaker 1: Chapter ninety nine. Woe to you who were godlessness and
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Speaker 1: glory in lying and extol them, You shall perish, and
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Speaker 1: no happy life shall be yours. Woe to them who
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Speaker 1: pervert the words of a brightness and transgress the eternal
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Speaker 1: law and transform themselves into what they were not into sinners.
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Speaker 1: They shall be trodden underfoot upon the earth in those days.
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Speaker 1: Make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial,
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Speaker 1: and place them as a testimony before the angels, that
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Speaker 1: they may place the sin of the sinners for a
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Speaker 1: memorial before the Most High. In those days the nation
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Speaker 1: shall be stirred up, and the families of the nations
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Speaker 1: shall arise on the day of destruction. And in those
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Speaker 1: days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children,
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Speaker 1: and they shall abandon them, so that their children shall
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Speaker 1: perish through them. Yea, they shall abandon their children that
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Speaker 1: are still sucklings, and not return to them, and shall
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Speaker 1: have no pity on their beloved ones. And again I
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Speaker 1: swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for
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Speaker 1: a day of unceasing bloodshed. And they who worship stones
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Speaker 1: and grave images of gold and silver, and wood and
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Speaker 1: stone and clay, and those who worship in pure spirits
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Speaker 1: and demons and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge,
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Speaker 1: shall get no manner of help from them. And they
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Speaker 1: shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts,
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Speaker 1: and their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of
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Speaker 1: their hearts, and through visions in their dreams. Through these
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Speaker 1: they shall become godless and fearful, for they shall have
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Speaker 1: wrought all their works in a lie, and shall have
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Speaker 1: worshiped a stone. Therefore, in an instant shall they perish.
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Speaker 1: But in those days blest are all they who accept
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Speaker 1: the words of wisdom and understand them, and observe the
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Speaker 1: paths of the Most High, and walk in the path
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Speaker 1: of His righteousness, and become not godless with the godless,
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Speaker 1: for they shall be saved. Woe to you who spread
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Speaker 1: evil to your neighbors, for you shall be slain in Shiel.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, and
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Speaker 1: to them who cause bitterness on the earth, for they
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Speaker 1: shall thereby be utterly consumed. Woe to you who build
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Speaker 1: your houses through the grievous toil of others, and all
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Speaker 1: their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin.
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Speaker 1: I tell you ye shall have no peace. Woe to
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Speaker 1: them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers,
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Speaker 1: and whose souls follow after idols, for they shall have
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Speaker 1: no rest. Woe to them who work on righteousness and
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Speaker 1: help ap press rush and slay their neighbors until the
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Speaker 1: day of the great judgment. For he shall cast down
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Speaker 1: your glory and bring affliction on your hearts, and shall
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Speaker 1: arouse his fierce indignation and destroy you all with the sword,
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Speaker 1: and all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
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Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred. The sinners destroy each other judgment of
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Speaker 1: the fallen angels. The safety of the righteous further woes
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Speaker 1: for the sinners. Chapter one hundred. And in those days,
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Speaker 1: in one place, the fathers, together with their sons, shall
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Speaker 1: be smitten, and brothers one with another, shall fall in
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Speaker 1: death till the streams flow with their blood. For a
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Speaker 1: man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons
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Speaker 1: and his son's sons, and the sinner shall not withhold
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Speaker 1: his hand from his honored brother. From dawn till sunset,
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Speaker 1: they shall slay one another, and the horse shall walk
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Speaker 1: up to the breast in the blood of sinners, and
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Speaker 1: the chariot shall be submerged to its height. In those days,
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Speaker 1: the Angel shall descend into the secret places and gather
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Speaker 1: together into one place all those who brought down sin,
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Speaker 1: and the most High will arise on that day of
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Speaker 1: judgment to execute great judgment amongst sinners and over all
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Speaker 1: the righteous and holy. He will appoint guardians from amongst
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Speaker 1: the holy angels to guard them as the apple of
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Speaker 1: an eye, until he makes an end of all wickedness
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Speaker 1: and all sin. And though the righteous sleep a long sleep,
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Speaker 1: they have naught to fear. And then the children of
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Speaker 1: the youths shall see the wise in security, and shall
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Speaker 1: understand all the words of this book, and recognize that
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Speaker 1: their riches shall not be able to save them in
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Speaker 1: the overthrow of their sins. Woe to you, sinners, on
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Speaker 1: the day of strong anguish, ye who afflict the righteous
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Speaker 1: and burn them with fire, Ye shall be requited according
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Speaker 1: to your works. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
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Speaker 1: who watch in order to devise wickedness. Therefore shall fear
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Speaker 1: come upon you, and there shall be none to help you.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words
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Speaker 1: of your mouth, and on account of the deeds of
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Speaker 1: your hands, which your godlessness has wrought em blazing flames
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Speaker 1: burning worse than fire, shall ye burn. And now know
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Speaker 1: ye that from the angels he will inquire as to
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Speaker 1: your deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon,
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Speaker 1: and from the stars in reference to your sins, Because
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Speaker 1: upon the earth ye execute judgment on the righteous. And
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Speaker 1: He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist,
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Speaker 1: and dew and rain, for they shall all be withheld
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Speaker 1: because of you, from descending upon you, and they shall
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Speaker 1: be mindful of your sins. And now give presents to
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Speaker 1: the rain, that it be not withheld from descending upon you,
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Speaker 1: Nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and
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Speaker 1: silver from you, that it may descend. When the hoarfrost
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Speaker 1: and snow with their chins, and all the snowstorms with
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Speaker 1: all their plagues, fall upon you in those days, ye
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Speaker 1: shall not be able to stand before them. Chapter one
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Speaker 1: hundred and one exhortation to the fear of God. All
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Speaker 1: nature fears him, but not the sinners. Chapter one hundred
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Speaker 1: and one. Observe the heaven, ye children of Heaven, and
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Speaker 1: every work of the Most High, and fear ye him,
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Speaker 1: and work no evil in his presence. If He closes
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Speaker 1: the windows of heaven and withholds the rain and the
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Speaker 1: dew from descending on the earth on your account, what
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Speaker 1: will ye do then? And if He sends his anger
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Speaker 1: upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition him,
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Speaker 1: for ye spak proud and insolent words against His righteousness.
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Speaker 1: Therefore ye shall have no peace. And see ye not
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Speaker 1: the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed
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Speaker 1: to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by
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Speaker 1: the winds, and are in sore trouble. And therefore do
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Speaker 1: they fear, because all their goodly possessions go upon the
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Speaker 1: sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart,
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Speaker 1: that the sea will swallow them and they will perish
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Speaker 1: Therein are not the entire sea and all its waters,
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Speaker 1: and all its movements the work of the Most High?
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Speaker 1: And has he not set limits to its doings and
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Speaker 1: confined it throughout by the sand, and at his reproof,
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Speaker 1: it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish dye,
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Speaker 1: and all that is in it. But ye sinners that
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Speaker 1: are on the earth, fear him not. Has He not
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Speaker 1: made the heaven and the earth and all that is therein,
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Speaker 1: who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves
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Speaker 1: on the earth and in the sea. Do not the
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Speaker 1: sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear
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Speaker 1: not the Most High? Chapter one hundred and two, Terrors
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Speaker 1: of the day of judgment, the adverse fortunes of the
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Speaker 1: righteous on the earth Chapter one hundred and two. In
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Speaker 1: those days when he hath brought a grievous fire upon you,
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Speaker 1: whither will you flee? And where will you find deliverance?
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Speaker 1: And when he launches forth his word against you, will
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Speaker 1: you not be affrighted in fear? And all the luminaries
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Speaker 1: shall be affrighted with great fear. And all the earth
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Speaker 1: shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed. And all
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Speaker 1: the angels shall execute their commands and shall seek to
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Speaker 1: hide themselves from the presence of the Great glory, and
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Speaker 1: all the children of earth shall tremble and quake. And
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Speaker 1: ye sinners shall be cursed forever, and ye shall have
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Speaker 1: no peace. Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous.
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Speaker 1: And be hopeful, ye that have died in righteousness, And
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Speaker 1: grieve not if your soul into sheol has descended in grief,
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Speaker 1: and that in your life your body fared not according
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Speaker 1: to your goodness. But wait for the day of the
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Speaker 1: judgment of sinners, and for the day of cursing and chastisement.
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Speaker 1: And yet when ye die, the sinners speak over you.
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Speaker 1: As we die so die the righteous, and what benefit
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Speaker 1: do they reap for their deeds? Behold, even as we
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Speaker 1: so do, they die in grief and darkness, And what
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Speaker 1: have more than we? From henceforth we are equal? And
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Speaker 1: what will they receive? And what will they see? Forever? Behold,
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Speaker 1: they too have died, and henceforth forever they shall see
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Speaker 1: no light. I tell you ye, sinners, ye are content
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Speaker 1: to eat and drink, and rob and sin and strip
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Speaker 1: men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days? Have
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Speaker 1: ye seen the righteous? How their end falls out? That
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Speaker 1: no manner of violence is found in them till their death. Nevertheless,
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Speaker 1: they perished and became as though they had not been,
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Speaker 1: and their spirits descended into shiol in Tribulation, Chapter one
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Speaker 1: hundred and three, Different destinies of the righteous and the sinners,
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Speaker 1: Fresh objections of the sinners, Chapter one hundred and three. Now,
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Speaker 1: therefore I swear to you the righteous, by the glory
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Speaker 1: of the Great and honored and mighty one in Dominion,
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Speaker 1: and by His greatness, I swear to you. I know
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Speaker 1: a mystery, and have read the heavenly tablets, and have
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Speaker 1: seen the holy books that have found written therein and
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Speaker 1: inscribed regarding them, that all goodness and joy and glory
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Speaker 1: are prepared for them and written down for the spirits
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Speaker 1: of those who have died in righteousness, and that manifold
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Speaker 1: good shall be given to you in recompense for your labors,
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Speaker 1: and that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of
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Speaker 1: the living, and the spirits of you who have died
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Speaker 1: in righteousness shall live and rejoice, and their spirits shall
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Speaker 1: not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of
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Speaker 1: the Great One, unto all the generations of the world.
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Speaker 1: Wherefore no longer fear their contumely. Woe to you, ye sinners,
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Speaker 1: when ye have died, If ye die in the wealth
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Speaker 1: of your sins, and those who are like you, say
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Speaker 1: regarding you, blessed are the sinners. They have seen all
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Speaker 1: their days, and how they have died in prosperity and
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Speaker 1: in wealth, and have not seen tribulation or murder in
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Speaker 1: their life, And they have died in honor, and judgment
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Speaker 1: has not been executed on them during their life. Know
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Speaker 1: ye that their souls will be made to descend into
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Speaker 1: shil and they shall be wretched in their great tribulation,
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Speaker 1: and into darkness and chains and a burning flame, where
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Speaker 1: there is grievous judgment. Shall your spirits enter, and the
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Speaker 1: great judgment shall be for all the generations of the world.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace. Say
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Speaker 1: not in regard to the righteous and good who are
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Speaker 1: in life. In our troubled days, we have toiled laboriously
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Speaker 1: and experienced every trouble, and met with much evil, and
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Speaker 1: been consumed, and have become few and our spirit small.
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Speaker 1: And we have been destroyed, and have not found any
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Speaker 1: to help us even with a word. We have been
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Speaker 1: tortured and destroyed, and not hoped to see life from
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Speaker 1: day to day. We hoped to be the head, and
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Speaker 1: have become the tail. We have toiled laboriously and had
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Speaker 1: no satisfaction in our toil, and we have become the
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Speaker 1: food of the sinners and the unrighteous. And they have
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Speaker 1: laid their yoke heavily upon us. They have had dominion
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Speaker 1: over us that hated us and smote us. And to
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Speaker 1: those that hated us, we have bowed our necks, but
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Speaker 1: they pitied us not. We desired to get away from them,
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Speaker 1: that we might escape and be at rest, but found
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Speaker 1: no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them,
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Speaker 1: And our complained to the rulers in our tribulation, and
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Speaker 1: cried out against those who devoured us. But they did
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Speaker 1: not attend to our cries, and would not harken to
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Speaker 1: our voice. And they helped those who robbed us and
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Speaker 1: devoured us, and those who made us few. And they
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Speaker 1: concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us
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Speaker 1: the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us
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Speaker 1: and murdered us. And they concealed their murder and remembered
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Speaker 1: not that they had lifted up their hands against us.
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Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and four Assurances given to the righteous,
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Speaker 1: admonitions to sinners and the falsifiers of the word of uprightness.
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Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and four. I swear unto you that
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Speaker 1: in heaven the angels remember you for good before the
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Speaker 1: glory of the Great One, and your names are written
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Speaker 1: before the glory of the Great One. Be hopeful, for
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Speaker 1: afore time you were put to shame through ill and affliction.
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Speaker 1: But now you shall shine as the lights of heaven.
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Speaker 1: You shall shine, and you shall be seen, and the
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Speaker 1: portals of heaven shall be open to you. And in
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Speaker 1: your cry cry for judgment, and it shall appear to you,
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Speaker 1: for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers
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Speaker 1: and on all who helped those who plundered you. Be hopeful,
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Speaker 1: and cast not away your hopes, for you shall have
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Speaker 1: great joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye
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Speaker 1: be obliged to do. You shall not have to hide
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Speaker 1: on the day of the Great Judgment, and you shall
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Speaker 1: not be found as sinners, And the eternal judgment shall
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Speaker 1: be far from you for all the generations of the world.
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Speaker 1: And now fear not, ye righteous, when you see the
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Speaker 1: sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways, Be not
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Speaker 1: companion with them, but keep afar from their violence, For
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Speaker 1: ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven. And
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Speaker 1: although ye sinners say all our sins shall not be
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Speaker 1: searched out and be written down, nevertheless they shall write
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Speaker 1: down all your sins every day. And now I show
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Speaker 1: unto you that light and darkness, day and night see
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Speaker 1: all your sins. Be not godless in your hearts, and
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Speaker 1: lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor
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Speaker 1: charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One,
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Speaker 1: nor take account of your idols. For all your lying
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Speaker 1: and all your godlessness, issue not in righteousness, but in
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Speaker 1: great sin. And now I know this mystery, that sinners
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Speaker 1: will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways,
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Speaker 1: and will speak wicked words, and lie and practice great deceits,
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Speaker 1: and write books concerning their words. But when they write
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Speaker 1: down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do
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Speaker 1: not change or minish bought from my words, but write
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Speaker 1: them all down truthfully, all that I first testified concerning them,
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Speaker 1: then I know another mystery, that books will be given
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Speaker 1: to the righteous and the wise to become a cause
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Speaker 1: of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them
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Speaker 1: shall the books be given, and they shall believe in
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Speaker 1: them and rejoice over them. And then shall all the
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Speaker 1: righteous who have learnt there from all the paths of
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Speaker 1: uprightness be recompensed. Chapter one hundred and five. God and
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Speaker 1: the Messiah to dwell with man Chapter one hundred and five.
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Speaker 1: In those days the Lord bid them to summon and
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Speaker 1: testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom. Show
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Speaker 1: it unto them, for ye are their guides and a
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Speaker 1: recompense over the whole earth. For I and my son
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Speaker 1: will be united with them forever in the paths of
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Speaker 1: uprightness in their lives, and ye shall have peace. Rejoice,
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Speaker 1: you children of uprightness. Amen. And of section sixteen fragment
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Speaker 1: of the Book of Noah, Chapters one hundred and six
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Speaker 1: and one hundred and seven, Chapter one hundred and six.
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Speaker 1: And after some days, my son Methuselah took a wife
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Speaker 1: for his son, Lemech, and she became pregnant by him
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Speaker 1: and bore a son. And his body was white as snow,
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Speaker 1: and red as the blooming of a rose, and the
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Speaker 1: hair of his head and his long locks were white
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Speaker 1: as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened
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Speaker 1: his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun,
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Speaker 1: and the whole house was very bright. And thereupon he
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Speaker 1: arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth
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Speaker 1: and conversed with the Lord of Righteousness. And his father
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Speaker 1: Lamech was afraid of him, and fled and came to
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Speaker 1: his father Methuselah. And he said, unto him, I have
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Speaker 1: begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and
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Speaker 1: resembling the sons of the God of Heaven. And his
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Speaker 1: nature is different, and he is not like us. And
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Speaker 1: his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and
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Speaker 1: his countenance is glorious. And it seems to me that
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Speaker 1: he has not sprung from me, but from the angels.
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Speaker 1: And I fear that in his days a wonder may
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Speaker 1: be wrought on the earth. And now, my father, I
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Speaker 1: am here to petition thee and implore THEE that thou
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Speaker 1: mayst go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him
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Speaker 1: the truth, for his dwelling places amongst the angels. And
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Speaker 1: when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came
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Speaker 1: to me to the ends of the earth, for he
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Speaker 1: had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud,
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Speaker 1: and I heard his voice, and I came to him,
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Speaker 1: and I said, unto him, behold, here am I, my son.
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Speaker 1: Wherefore hast thou come to me? And he answered and said,
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Speaker 1: because of a great cause of anxiety have I come
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Speaker 1: to thee? And because of a disturbing vision have I approached?
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Speaker 1: And now my father hear me, unto lamech, my son.
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Speaker 1: There hath been born a son, the like of whom
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Speaker 1: there is none. And his nature is not like man's nature.
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Speaker 1: And the color of his body is whiter than snow
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Speaker 1: and redder than the bloom arose and the hair of
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Speaker 1: his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes
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Speaker 1: are like the rays of the sun. And he opened
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Speaker 1: his eyes, and thereupon lighted up the whole house. And
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Speaker 1: he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened
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Speaker 1: his mouth and blessed the Lord of Heaven. And his
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Speaker 1: father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did
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Speaker 1: not believe that he was sprung from him, but that
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Speaker 1: he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven.
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Speaker 1: And behold, I have come to Thee that thou mayest
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Speaker 1: make known to me the truth. And I Enoch answered
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Speaker 1: and said unto him, the Lord will do a new
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Speaker 1: thing on the earth. And this I have already seen
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Speaker 1: in a vision. And make known to Thee that in
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Speaker 1: the generation of my father Jared, some of the angels
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Speaker 1: of Heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. And behold,
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Speaker 1: they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united
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Speaker 1: themselves with women, and commit sin with them, and have
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Speaker 1: married some of them, and have begot children by them.
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Speaker 1: And they shall produce on the earth giants, not according
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Speaker 1: to the spirit, but according to the flesh. And there
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Speaker 1: shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the
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Speaker 1: earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. Yea, there shall
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Speaker 1: come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there
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Speaker 1: shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year.
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Speaker 1: And this son, who has been born unto you, shall
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Speaker 1: be left on the earth, and his three children shall
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Speaker 1: be saved with him. When all mankind that are on
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Speaker 1: the earth shall die, he and his sons shall be saved.
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Speaker 1: And now make known to thy son, Lamech, that he
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Speaker 1: who has been born is in truth his son, and
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Speaker 1: call his name Noah, for he shall be left to you,
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Speaker 1: and he and his sons shall be saved from the
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Speaker 1: destruction which shall come upon the earth on account of
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Speaker 1: all the sin and all the unrighteousness which shall be
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Speaker 1: consummated on the earth in his days. And after that
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Speaker 1: there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was
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Speaker 1: first consummated on the earth. For I know the mysteries
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Speaker 1: of the Holy Ones, for He the Lord has showed
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Speaker 1: me and informed me, and I have read them in
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Speaker 1: the Heavenly Tablets Chapter one hundred and seven. And I
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Speaker 1: saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress
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Speaker 1: till a generation of righteousness arises and transgression is destroyed.
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Speaker 1: And sin passes away from the earth, and all manner
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Speaker 1: of good comes upon it. And now my son, go
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Speaker 1: and make known to thy son Lamech, that this son
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Speaker 1: which has been born is in truth his son, and
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Speaker 1: that this is no lie. And when Methuselah had heard
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Speaker 1: the words of his father Enoch, for he had shown
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Speaker 1: to him everything in secret, he returned and showed them
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Speaker 1: to him, and called the name of that son Noah,
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Speaker 1: for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.
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Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and eight, an appendix to the Book
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Speaker 1: of Enoch. Chapter one hundred and eight, another book which
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Speaker 1: Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah, and for those who
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Speaker 1: will come after him and go keep the law in
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Speaker 1: the last days. Ye who have done good, shall wait
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Speaker 1: for those days till an end is made of those
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Speaker 1: who work evil, and an end of the might of
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Speaker 1: the transgressors. And wait ye, indeed, till sin has passed away.
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Speaker 1: For their names shall be blotted out of the Book
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Speaker 1: of Life and out of the Holy books, and their
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Speaker 1: seed shall be destroyed forever, and their spirits shall be slain,
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Speaker 1: and they shall cry and make lamentation. In a place
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Speaker 1: that is a chaotic wilderness and in the fire shall
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Speaker 1: they burn, for there is no earth there. And I
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Speaker 1: saw there something like an invisible cloud, for by reason
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Speaker 1: of its depth I could not look over. And I
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Speaker 1: saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like
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Speaker 1: shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro. And I
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Speaker 1: ask one of the holy angels who was with me,
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Speaker 1: and said, unto him, what is this shining thing? For
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Speaker 1: it is not a heaven, but only the flame of
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Speaker 1: a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying
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Speaker 1: in lamentation and strong pain. And he said, unto me,
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Speaker 1: this place which thou seest, here are cast the spirits
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Speaker 1: of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness,
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Speaker 1: and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath
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Speaker 1: spoken through the mouth of the prophets, even the things
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Speaker 1: that shall be, for some of them are written and
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Speaker 1: inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels
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Speaker 1: may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners,
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Speaker 1: and the spirits of the humble, and of those who
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Speaker 1: have afflicted their bodies and been recompensed by God, and
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Speaker 1: of those who have been put to shame by wicked
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Speaker 1: men who loved God, and loved neither gold nor silver,
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Speaker 1: nor any of the good things which are in the world,
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Speaker 1: but gave over their bodies to torture, who since they
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Speaker 1: came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded
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Speaker 1: everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly. And the
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Speaker 1: Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found pure,
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Speaker 1: so that they should bless His name. And all the
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Speaker 1: blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books,
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Speaker 1: and he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have
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Speaker 1: been found to be such as loved heaven more than
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Speaker 1: their life in the world. And though they were trodden
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Speaker 1: under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling
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Speaker 1: from them, and were put to shame, yet they blessed me.
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Speaker 1: And now I will summon the spirits of the good
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Speaker 1: who belong to the generation of light. And I will
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Speaker 1: transform those who were born in darkness, who in the
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Speaker 1: flesh were not recompensed with such honor as their faithfulness deserved.
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Speaker 1: And I will bring forth in shining light those who
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Speaker 1: have loved my holy name, and I will seat each
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Speaker 1: on the throne of his honor, and they shall be
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Speaker 1: resplendent for times without number. For righteousness is the judgment
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Speaker 1: of God. For to the faithful he will give faithfulness
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Speaker 1: in the habitation of upright paths. And they shall see
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Speaker 1: those who were born into darkness led into darkness. While
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Speaker 1: the righteous shall be resplendent, and the sinners shall cry
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Speaker 1: aloud and see them resplendent, and indeed will go where
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Speaker 1: days and seasons are prescribed for them. And of Section
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