1 Enoch 23
Outside the Protestant canon. Scripture for: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo. How each church treats it →
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XXIII. The fire that deals with the Luminaries of Heaven.
1From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth.1, 2. Enoch is still in the west, but proceeds to another quarter in it, where there is a restless river of fire. xvii. 4 seems to deal with the same subject. 2And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3And I asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’ 4Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me ╓and said unto me╖: ‘This course ┌of fire┐ ╓which thou hast seen╖ is the fire in the west which †persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.’
1En-Charles: 1 Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles (APOT 1913) (1913) · Public Domain · The Book of Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913); public domain. Digital text: CrossWire SWORD module 'Enoch' v2.0.