Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book V — Epistle of Enoch (with Appendix)·Chapter CVII — Enoch's Comfort to Methuselah
The child shall be a remnant
Enoch comforts Methuselah: tell Lamech the child is truly his, not from the angels; he is the one through whom a remnant shall be preserved. After the destruction, righteousness shall return to the earth.
Source context
- Theme
- vision of the multiplication of the righteous as witnesses to cosmic judgment and the transmission of Enoch's writings to future generations
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew prophetic traditionThe motif of preserved sacred writings entrusted to elect witnesses across generations parallels the chain-of-transmission (masorah) principle in Hebrew prophetic and scribal tradition, wherein esoteric knowledge is safeguarded through a lineage of the righteous.
- Zoroastrian apocalypticThe eschatological multiplication of the righteous as cosmic witnesses displays cross-tradition congruence with Zoroastrian accounts of the fravashis — the guardian spirits of the faithful — who testify at the final renovation (Frashegird).
Chapter CVII
CHAPTER CVII.
1And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner
of good comes upon it. 2. And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this) is no lie.' 3. And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch--for he had shown to him everything in secret--he returned and showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.
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