1 Enoch 58
1 Enoch 58
Section: Book of Parables
Translated by R.H. Charles (1917)
LVIII. The Blessedness of the Saints.
LVIII. 1. And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
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Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot.
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And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun, And the elect in the light of eternal life: The days of their life shall be unending, And the days of the holy without number.
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And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits: There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
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And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith: For it has become bright as the sun upon earth, And the darkness is past.
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And there shall be a light that never =endeth=, And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come, For the darkness shall first have been destroyed, [And the light established before the Lord of Spirits] And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.