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The Book of Enoch<br />

38.1 The First Parable.<br />

When the community of the righteous appears and the sinners are judged<br />

for their sins and are driven from the face of the dry ground.<br />

38.2 And when the Righteous One appears, in front of the chosen<br />

righteous, whose works are weighed by the Lord of Spirits. And when<br />

light appears to the righteous and chosen who dwell on the dry ground.<br />

Where will be the dwelling of the sinners? And where will be the restingplace<br />

of those who denied the Lord of Spirits? It would have been better<br />

for them, if they had not been born.<br />

38.3 And when the secrets of the righteous are revealed, the sinners will be<br />

judged, and the impious driven from the presence of the righteous and the<br />

chosen.<br />

38.4 And from then on, those who possess the earth will not be mighty and<br />

exalted. Nor will they be able to look at the face of the Holy ones, for the<br />

light of the Lord of the Spirits will have appeared on the face of the Holy,<br />

the righteous, and the chosen.<br />

38.5 And the mighty kings will at that time be destroyed and given into the<br />

hand of the righteous and the Holy.<br />

38.6 And from then on no one will be able to seek the Lord of Spirits for<br />

their life will be at an end.<br />

39.1 And it will come to pass in these days that the chosen and holy<br />

children will come down from the high Heavens and their offspring will<br />

become one with the sons of men.<br />

39.2 In those days Enoch received books of indignation and anger and<br />

books of tumult and confusion. And there will be no mercy for them, says<br />

the Lord of Spirits.<br />

39.3 And at that time clouds and a storm wind carried me off from the face<br />

of the earth and set me down at the end of Heaven.<br />

39.4 And there I saw another vision; the Dwelling of the Righteous and the<br />

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