The Book of Enoch Commentary - Chapter 38

The Book of Enoch Commentary - Chapter 38

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1. Parable the first. When the congregation of the righteous shall be manifested; and sinners be judged for their crimes, and be troubled in the sight of the world;

2. When righteousness shall be manifested in the presence of the righteous themselves, who will be elected for their good works duly weighed by the Lord of spirits; and when the light of the righteous and the elect, who dwell on earth, shall be manifested; where will the habitation of sinners be? and where the place of rest for those who have rejected the Lord of spirits? It would have been better for them, had they never been born.

Interestingly, the righteous are revealed to both the sinners and to the righteous. The call out in Isaiah 52:11 to "go ye out from thence" is the servant's call out to Israel's elect or righteous to separate themselves from Babylon. This is one of the select verses Jesus Himself quotes to the nephites in 3 Nephi 20 as the righteous and wicked are both separated and revealed.
3. When, too, the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed, then shall sinners be judged; and impious men shall be afflicted in the presence of the righteous and the elect.
Secrets kept from the foundation of the world through to the very end is a theme found both in Isaiah (51) and 1 Enoch.
4. From that period those who possess the earth shall cease to be powerful and exalted. Neither shall they be capable of beholding the countenances of the holy; for the light of the countenances of the holy, the righteous, and the elect, has been seen by the Lord of spirits.

5. Yet shall not the mighty kings of that period be destroyed; but be delivered into the hands of the righteous and the holy.

6. Nor thenceforwards shall any obtain commiseration from the Lord of spirits, because their lives in this world will have been completed.

Another theme repeated throughout Isaiah is the reversal of the mighty and low where the lowly are exalted and the mighty kings and princes of the world are made low (Isaiah 40:4, 49:23, 52:13-14)

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