1 Enoch 58

LVIII-LXXI. The Third Parable. LVIII. The Blessedness of the Saints.

1And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.*The third Parable begins. Much seems to have been lost, to make room for the Noachic fragments. As it stands, it embraces lviii, lxi-lxiv, lxix. 26-9. The main theme is the final judgement by the Son of Man, specially over the great ones, and the ensuing bliss of the righteous. 2Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot.*preserved for them by the Messiah xlviii. 7. 3And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun, And the elect in the light of eternal life: The days of their life shall be unending, And the days of the holy without number.*See xxxvii. 4 (note). Cf. Dan. xii. 2; Pss. Sol. iii. 16. 4And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits: There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord. 5And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith: For it has become bright as the sun upon earth, And the darkness is past.*i.e. their hidden recompense, as in xxxviii. 3, and xlviii. 7. They must still 'seek', and so their life is progressive. 6And there shall be a light that never endeth, And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come, For the darkness shall first have been destroyed, [And the light established before the Lord of Spirits] And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.*emended for MSS. 'cannot be numbered'.