When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall
be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth:
2 And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the
righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light
shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of
Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.
3 When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners
judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and
elect,
4 From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be
powerful and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the
holy,
For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear
On the face
of the holy, righteous, and elect.
5 Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands
of the righteous and holy.
6 And thenceforward none shall seek for
themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits
For their life is at an end.
And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
3
And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And set me
down at the end of the heavens.
4 And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And
the resting-places of the righteous.
5 Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And
their resting-places with the holy.
And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of
men,
And righteousness flowed before them as water,
And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and
ever.
6a And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of
faith,
7a And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of
Spirits.
6b And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And the
righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for ever and
ever.
7b And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as
fiery lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And righteousness
before Him shall never fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before
Him.]
8 There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that
dwelling-place:
And there heretofore hath been my portion,
For so has it been
established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
9 In those days I
praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and
praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory according to the
good pleasure of the Lord of 10 Spirits. For a long time my eyes regarded that
place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying: 'Blessed is He, and may He
be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. And before Him there is no
ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will
be from 12 generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they
stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: "Holy, holy,
holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with 3 spirits."' And here
my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say:
'Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.' And
my face was changed; for I could no longer behold.
And they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For unto them is their
thanksgiving rest.
8 For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a
curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is light to the
righteous
And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,
Who made
a separation between the light and the darkness,
And divided the spirits of
men,
And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,
In the name of His
righteousness.
9 For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all and He judges them all before Him.
2 Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And
found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place,
And took her seat among the angels.
3 And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:
Whom she sought not
she found,
And dwelt with them,
As rain in a desert
And dew on a thirsty land.
2 And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall
not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name
of the Lord of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and
tribulation.
3 On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall
try their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine Elect
Ones,
And those who have called upon My glorious name:
4 Then will I
cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and
light
5 And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But the sinners and
evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6 For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones
And
have caused them to dwell before Me:
But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I
shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the
pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever.
4 And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
Shall raise up the kings and
the mighty from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And
shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners.
5 [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and
kingdoms]
Because they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor humbly
acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
6 And he shall put
down the countenance of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.
And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their
bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because they
do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7 And these are they who judge the stars of heaven,
[And raise their
hands against the Most High],
And tread upon the earth and dwell upon
it.
And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,
And their power rests
upon their riches,
And their faith is in the gods which they have made with
their hands,
And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,
8 And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And the faithful
who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
2 In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite
with one voice
And supplicate and pray [and praise,
And give thanks and
bless the name of the Lord of Spirits
On behalf of the blood of the
righteous which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may not
be in vain before the Lord of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto
them,
And that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3 In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the
throne of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened before
Him:
And all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors stood
before Him,
4 And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because the number of
the righteous had been offered,
And the prayer of the righteous had been
heard,
And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of
Spirits.
3 Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,
Before the stars of
the heaven were made,
His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
4 He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not
fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those
who are troubled of heart.
5 All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And
will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.
6 And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,
Before
the creation of the world and for evermore.
7 And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and
righteous;
For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous,
Because
they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,
And have hated
all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
For in his name
they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard
to their life.
8 In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have
become,
And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their
hands,
For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be
able to) save themselves.
And I will give them over into the hands of Mine
elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the
holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the
righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.
10 And on
the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth,
And before
them they shall fall and not rise again:
And there shall be no one to take
them with his hands and raise them:
For they have denied the Lord of
Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
2 For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And
unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,
And his
glory is for ever and ever,
And his might unto all generations.
3 And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives
insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of might,
And the spirit
of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
4 And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter
a lying word before him;
For he is the Elect One before the Lord of
Spirits according to His good pleasure.
And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness (this)
That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.
3 They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And the Lord of Spirits will
have compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.
4 And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And in the presence of His
glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself:
At His judgement the
unrepentant shall perish before Him.
5 And from henceforth I will have no
mercy on them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
5a For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2 And he shall choose
the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that
they should be saved.
3 And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth
shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of
Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him.
4 And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills
also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the
angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
5b And the earth shall rejoice,
c And the righteous shall dwell upon
it,
d And the elect shall walk thereon.
4 And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their
leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.
5 And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the
east upon the Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon
them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry
wolves among their flocks.
6 And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect
ones
[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor
and a highway :]
7 But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to
their horses.
And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand
shall be strong against themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his
mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And
their punishment be not in vain.
8 In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed
up therein
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners
in the presence of the elect.'
2 Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your
lot.
3 And 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.
4 And 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.
5 And 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.
6 And 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.
3 And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my
loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
4 And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure the look of this host, and the 5 commotion and the quaking of the heaven. And Michael said unto me: ' Why art thou disquieted with such a vision ? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and He hath been merciful and 6 long-suffering towards those who dwell on the earth. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain-that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition. 25 When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come, in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His patience.' 7 And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the 8 abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first 9 man whom the Lord of Spirits created. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the abysses 10 of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. And he said to me: ' Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.' 11 And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the 12 heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names, and how all the divisions 13 are divided. And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once obey. 14 For the thunder has places of rest (which) are assigned (to it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together 15 through the spirit and separate not. For when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward according to the many quarters of the earth. 16 And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains 17 of the earth. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good 18 angel. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength -There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is frost. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel. 20 And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the 21 mist are connected, and the one gives to the other. And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on 22 the earth . . . For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a measure for the rain, 22, and the angels take it in charge. And these things I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous. 23 And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: ' These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed . . .
3 And the angel who went with me said unto me:
' These shall bring the
measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the
righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of
Spirits for ever and ever.
4 The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And those are the
measures which shall be given to faith
And which shall strengthen
righteousness.
5 And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the
earth,
And those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And those who
have been devoured by the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by the
fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day
of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.
6 And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light like unto fire.
7 And that One (with) their first words they blessed,
And extolled and
lauded with wisdom,
And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of
life.
8 And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect one on the throne of glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,
And
in the balance shall their deeds be weighed
9 And when he shall lift up his countenance
To judge their secret ways
according to the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And their path
according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of
Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And
glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.
10 And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones above, and the host of God, the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Elect One, and the other powers on the earth (and) over the water On that day shall raise one voice, and bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of judgement and of peace, and in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say with one voice: " Blessed is He, and may the name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed for ever and ever."
12 All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:
All the holy ones
who are in heaven shall bless Him,
And all the elect who dwell in the
garden of life:
And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and extol, and
hallow Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and
bless Thy name for ever and ever.
13 For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is long-suffering,
And all His works and all that He has created He has revealed to the
righteous and elect
In the name of the Lord of Spirits.
' Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the
Elect One.'
2 And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His
glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,
And
the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And all the unrighteous are
destroyed from before his face.
3 And there shall stand up in that day all
the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken
before him.
4 Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And she has
pain in bringing forth]
When her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.
And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be
terrified,
And they shall be downcast of countenance,
And pain shall
seize them,
When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his
glory.
6 And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
7 For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And the Most High
preserved him in the presence of His might,
And revealed him to the elect.
8 And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the
elect shall stand before him on that day.
9 And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the
earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set
their hope upon that Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy
at his hands.
10 Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall
hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with
shame,
And the darkness grow deeper on their faces.
11 And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,
To execute
vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect
12 And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits
resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13 And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they
shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
14 And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of
Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15 And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And
ceased to be of downcast countenance.
And they shall have been clothed
with garments of glory,
16 And these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before
the Lord of Spirits.
' Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And the Lord of
the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of
wisdom,
3 And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to
generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is
beyond reckoning.
4 We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings
and Him who is king over all kings.'
5 And they shall say:
' Would
that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before
His glory !
6 And now we long for a little rest but find it not:
We follow hard
upon and obtain (it) not:
And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our
dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7 For we have not believed before Him
Nor glorified the name of the
Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]
But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.
8 And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And
we find no respite for confession
That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His
justice,
And His judgements have no respect of persons.
And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And all
our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.'
10 Now they shall say unto themselves: ' Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the burden of Sheol.'
11 And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And shame
before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12 Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ' This is the ordinance and judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.'
12 And He has destined thy name to be among the holy,
And will preserve
thee amongst those who dwell on the earth,
And has destined thy righteous
seed both for kingship and for great honours,
And from thy seed shall
proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.
16 And these are the secrets of this oath . . .
And they are strong
through his oath:
And the heaven was suspended before the world was
created,
And for ever.
17 And through it the earth was founded upon the water,
And from the
secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters,
From the creation
of the world and unto eternity.
18 And through that oath the sea was created,
And as its foundation He
set for it the sand against the time of (its) anger,
And it dare not pass
beyond it from the creation of the world unto eternity.
9 And through that oath are the depths made fast,
And abide and stir not
from their place from eternity to eternity.
20 And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course,
And
deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
21 And through that oath the stars complete their course,
And He calls
them by their names,
And they answer Him from eternity to eternity.
22 [And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and of all zephyrs, and (their) paths 23 from all the quarters of the winds. And there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the chambers of the 24 hoarfrost, and the chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the rain and the dew. And all these believe and give thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify (Him) with all their power, and their food is in every act of thanksgiving: they thank and glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]
26 And there was great joy amongst them,
And they blessed and
glorified and extolled
Because the name of that Son of Man had been
revealed unto them.
27 And he sat on the throne of his glory,
And the sum of judgement
was given unto the Son of Man,
And he caused the sinners to pass away
and be destroyed from off the face of the earth,
And those who have led
the world astray.
28 With chains shall they be bound,
And in their assemblage-place of
destruction shall they be imprisoned,
And all their works vanish from
the face of the earth.
29 And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible;
For that
Son of Man has appeared,
And has seated himself on the throne of his
glory,
And all evil shall pass away before his face,
And the word of
that Son of Man shall go forth
And be strong before the Lord of Spirits.
2 And I saw two streams of fire,
And the light of that fire shone
like hyacinth,
And I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.
3 And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by my right
hand,
And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,
And he
showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
4 And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,
And all
the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,
Whence they
proceed before the face of the holy ones.
5 And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,
And I saw
there as it were a structure built of crystals,
And between those
crystals tongues of living fire.
6 And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,
And on
its four sides were streams full of living fire,
And they girt that
house.
7 And round about were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin:
And these
are they who sleep not
And guard the throne of His glory.
8 And I saw angels who could not be counted,
A thousand thousands,
and ten thousand times ten thousand,
Encircling that house.
And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,
And the holy
angels who are above the heavens,
Go in and out of that house.
9 And they came forth from that house,
And Michael and Gabriel,
Raphael and Phanuel,
And many holy angels without number.
10 And with them the Head of Days,
His head white and pure as wool,
And His raiment indescribable.
11 And I fell on my face,
And my whole body became relaxed,
And
my spirit was transfigured;
And I cried with a loud voice, . . .
with the spirit of power,
And
blessed and glorified and extolled.
12 And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing before that Head of Days. And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number. [Lost passage wherein the Son of Man was described as accompanying the Head of Days, and Enoch asked one of the angels (as in xlvi. 3) concerning the Son of Man as to who he was.]
14 And he (i.e. the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice, and
said unto me '
This is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness,
And righteousness abides over him,
And the righteousness of the Head
of Days forsakes him not.'
15 And he said unto me:
' He proclaims
unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;
For from hence has
proceeded peace since the creation of the world,
And so shall it be unto
thee for ever and for ever and ever.
16 And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never forsaketh
him:
With him will be their dwelling-places, and with him their
heritage,
And they shall not be separated from him for ever and ever and
ever.
And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,
And the
righteous shall have peace and an upright way
In the name of the Lord of
Spirits for ever and ever.'