Book of Enoch

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Chapter LVIII

Jewish Apocrypha trans. R.H. Charles • c. 3rd-1st century BCE

58:1

And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.

58:2

Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot.

58:3

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.

58:4

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.

58:5

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.

58:6

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.