Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter XII — Enoch's Commission
Enoch hidden with the holy ones — sent to the Watchers
Enoch, hidden with the Watchers and the holy ones, is commissioned by the heavenly Watchers to go to the fallen Watchers and declare that they shall have no peace; their seventy-generation imprisonment is decreed.
Source context
- Theme
- Enoch's intermediary commission between the Watchers and the divine judgment pronounced against them
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Mesopotamian priestly intercession traditionCross-tradition congruence: the figure of a human intermediary petitioning divine councils on behalf of fallen or wayward spiritual beings parallels the Akkadian āšipu-priest's role as mediator between transgressing spirits and heavenly authority.
- Second Temple angelology (Dead Sea Scrolls)Cross-tradition congruence: the Qumran Community Rule and Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice attest to a structurally parallel schema in which heavenly beings are subject to hierarchical judgment communicated through an elect human representative.
Chapter XII
XII-XVI. Dream Vision of Enoch: his intercession for Azâzêl and the fallen Angels: and his announcement to them of their first and final doom.
CHAPTER XII.
1Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. 2. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.
3And I, Enoch was blessing the Lord of **majesty** and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me--Enoch the scribe--and said to me: 4. 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, †declare† to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: 5. And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as †they† delight themselves in †their† children, 6. The murder of †their† beloved ones shall †they† see, and over the destruction of †their† children shall †they† lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'
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