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014 - Chapters 90 · Book of Enoch

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  Speaker 1: Section fourteen of the Book of Enoch, translated by Robert
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  Speaker 1: Henry Charles. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety, verses one through five, third period from Alexander
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  Speaker 1: the Great to the Greco Syrian domination, Chapter ninety. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw till that in this manner thirty five shepherds
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  Speaker 1: undertook the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally completed
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  Speaker 1: their periods as did the first, and others received them
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  Speaker 1: into their hands to pasture them for their period, each
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  Speaker 1: shepherd in his own period. And after that I saw
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  Speaker 1: in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles,
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  Speaker 1: the vultures, the kites, the ravens. But the eagles led
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  Speaker 1: all the birds, and they began to devour those sheep,
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  Speaker 1: and to pick out their eyes, and to devour their flesh.
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  Speaker 1: And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being
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  Speaker 1: devoured by the birds. And as for me, I looked
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  Speaker 1: and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured
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  Speaker 1: the sheep. And I saw until those sheep were devoured
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  Speaker 1: by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left
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  Speaker 1: neither flesh, nor skin, nor sinew remaining on them. Till
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  Speaker 1: only their bones stood there, and their bones too fell
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  Speaker 1: to the earth, and the sheep became few. And I
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  Speaker 1: saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and
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  Speaker 1: completed in their several periods fifty eight times chapter ninety,
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  Speaker 1: verses six through twelve, fourth period, from the Grecosyrian domination
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  Speaker 1: to the Maccabean revolt. But behold, lambs were borne by
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  Speaker 1: those white sheep, and they began to open their eyes
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  Speaker 1: and to see, and to cry to the sheep. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: they cried to them, but they did not hearken to
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  Speaker 1: what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and
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  Speaker 1: their eyes were very exceedingly blinded. And I saw in
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  Speaker 1: the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and
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  Speaker 1: took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in peace,
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  Speaker 1: and devoured them. And I saw till horns grew upon
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  Speaker 1: those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns, And
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  Speaker 1: I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one
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  Speaker 1: of those sheep, and their eyes were opened, and it
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  Speaker 1: looked at them, and their eyes opened, and it cried
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  Speaker 1: to the sheep, and the rams saw it, and all
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  Speaker 1: ran to it. And notwithstanding all this, those eagles and vultures,
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  Speaker 1: and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and
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  Speaker 1: swooping down upon them and devouring them. Still the sheep
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  Speaker 1: remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out, and
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  Speaker 1: those ravens fought and battled with it, and sought to
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  Speaker 1: lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety, verses thirteen through nineteen, the last assault of
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles on the Jews, where verses thirteen through fifteen
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  Speaker 1: and sixteen through eighteen are doublets. And I saw till
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  Speaker 1: the shepherds and eagles, and those vultures and kites came,
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  Speaker 1: and they cried to the ravens that they should break
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  Speaker 1: the horn of that ram, And they battled and fought
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  Speaker 1: with it, and it battled with them and cried that
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  Speaker 1: its help might come. And I saw till a great
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  Speaker 1: sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded
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  Speaker 1: against all the beasts of the field to slay them,
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  Speaker 1: And all the beasts and the birds of the heaven
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  Speaker 1: fled before their face. And I saw till that man
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  Speaker 1: who wrote down the names of the shepherds and carried
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  Speaker 1: up into the presence of the Lord of the Sheep
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  Speaker 1: came and helped it, and showed it everything he had
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  Speaker 1: come down for the help of that ram. And I
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  Speaker 1: saw till the Lord of the Sheep came unto them
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  Speaker 1: in wrath, and all who saw him fled, and they
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  Speaker 1: all fell into his shadow from before his face. Chapter ninety,
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  Speaker 1: verses twenty through twenty seven, Judgment of the Fallen Angels,
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  Speaker 1: the Shepherds and the Apostates. And I saw till a
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  Speaker 1: throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of the Sheep sat himself thereon, and the other took
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  Speaker 1: the sealed books and opened those books before the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of the Sheep. And the Lord called those men the
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  Speaker 1: seven first white Ones, and commanded that they should bring
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  Speaker 1: before him, beginning with the first star, which led the way,
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  Speaker 1: all the stars, whose privy members were like those of horses.
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  Speaker 1: And they brought them all before him. And he said
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  Speaker 1: to that man who wrote before him, being one of
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  Speaker 1: those seven white Ones, and said unto him, take those
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  Speaker 1: seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and who,
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  Speaker 1: taking them on their own authorities, slew more than I
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  Speaker 1: commanded them. And behold they were all bound, I saw,
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  Speaker 1: and they all stood before him, and the judgment was
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  Speaker 1: held first over the stars, and they were judged and
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  Speaker 1: found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation. And
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  Speaker 1: they were cast into an abyss full of fire and flaming,
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  Speaker 1: and full of pillars of fire. And those seventy shepherds
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  Speaker 1: were judged and found guilty, and they were cast into
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  Speaker 1: that fiery abyss. And I saw at the that time
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  Speaker 1: how alike abyss was opened in the midst of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: full of fire. And they brought those blinded sheep, and
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  Speaker 1: they were all judged and found guilty, and cast into
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  Speaker 1: this fiery abyss, and they burned. Now this abyss was
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  Speaker 1: to the right of that house, and I saw those
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  Speaker 1: sheep burning, and their bones burning. Chapter ninety, verses twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight through thirty eight. The New Jerusalem, the conversion of
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  Speaker 1: the surviving Gentiles, the resurrection of the Righteous the Messiah.
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  Speaker 1: And I stood up to sea till they folded up
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  Speaker 1: that old house and carried off all the pillars, and
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  Speaker 1: all the beams and ornaments of the house were at
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  Speaker 1: the same time folded up with it. And they carried
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  Speaker 1: it off and laid it in a place in the
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  Speaker 1: south of the land, And I saw till the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of the sheep brought a new house, greater and loftier
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  Speaker 1: than that first, and set it up in the place
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  Speaker 1: of the first, which had been folded up. All its
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  Speaker 1: pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger
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  Speaker 1: than those of the first, the old one which he
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  Speaker 1: 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 read by C. J. Plogue