Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book V — Epistle of Enoch (with Appendix)·Chapter CII — The Sinners' Departure
Your end shall be evil
In those days a fire shall fall on you and ye shall not be able to flee. The angels of judgment shall execute their work; the wicked shall have no peace. Their end shall be evil; their death without resurrection to life.
Source context
- Theme
- consolation addressed to the righteous dead amid the prosperity of sinners, and the contrasting fates of souls after bodily death
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew psalmic traditionThe Psalms repeatedly address the apparent injustice of the wicked flourishing while the righteous suffer, treating trust in post-mortem vindication as the answer — a structural parallel to this chapter's consolatory argument.
- Platonic eschatology (Er myth, Republic X)Plato's account of souls receiving their due reward or punishment after death presents a cross-tradition congruence with Enoch's insistence that the righteous dead are held in divine memory and will be vindicated beyond bodily dissolution.
- Zoroastrian teaching on the Chinvat BridgeThe Avestan doctrine of the soul's post-mortem passage and judgment according to earthly deeds presents a cross-tradition congruence with Enoch's differentiation between the condition of righteous and sinful souls after death.
Chapter CII.
CII. Terrors of the Day of Judgement: the adverse Fortunes of the Righteous on the Earth.
Chapter CII.
1In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you,
Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance? And when He launches forth His Word against you Will you not be affrighted and fear? p. 146
2And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,
And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
3And all the †angels shall execute their commands†
And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory, And the children of earth shall tremble and quake; And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever, And ye shall have no peace.
4Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.
5And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief,
And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness, But **wait for** the day of the **judgement** of sinners And for the day of cursing and chastisement.
6And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:
"As we die, so die the righteous, And what benefit do they reap for their deeds?
7Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,
And what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal.
8And what will they receive and what will they see for ever?
Behold, they too have died, And henceforth for ever shall they see no light."
9I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. 10. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death?
11"Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation."
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