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The Book of Enoch the Prophet (Laurence translation)

Anonymous (3rd–1st century BC) · tr. Richard Laurence · 1821 (1883 ed.) · 46,593 words

The first English translation of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, made in 1821 by Archbishop Richard Laurence, which brought the Watchers, the Son of Man and the heavenly journeys to nineteenth-century readers and occultists.

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Introduction

In the Authorized Version of the Epistle of Jude, we read the following words:—

“Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Modern research sees in the Epistle of Jude a work of the second century: but as orthodox theologians accept its contents as the inspired utterance of an Apostle, let us diligently search the Hebrew Scriptures for this important forecast of the second Advent of the Messiah. In vain we turn over the pages of the sacred Canon; not even in the Apocrypha can we trace one line from the pen of the marvellous being to whom uninterrupted immortality is assigned by apostolic interpretation of Genesis v. 24. Were the prophecies of Enoch, therefore, accepted as a Divine revelation on that momentous day when Jesus explained the Scriptures, after his resurrection, to Jude and his apostolic brethren; and have we moderns betrayed our trust by excluding an inspired record from the Bible?

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Book of Enoch Chap. I–VI
  3. Chap. VII. [Sect. II.]
  4. Chap. VIII–X
  5. (No CHAP. XI.) Chap. XII. [Sect. III.]
  6. Chap. XIII–XIV
  7. Chap. XV–XVI
  8. Chap. XVII. [Sect. IV.]
  9. Chap. XVIII–XXI
  10. Chap. XXII. [Sect. V.]
  11. Chap. XXIII–XXV
  12. Chap. XXVI–XXXII
  13. Chap. XXXIII–XXXV
  14. Chap. XXXVII. [Sect. VI.]
  15. Chap. XXXVIII–XL
  16. Chap. XLI–XLIII
  17. Chap. XLIV · Chap. XLV. [Sect. VII.]
  18. Chap. XLVI–XLVIII
  19. Chap. XLVIII–LI
  20. Chap. LII–LIV
  21. Chap. LV
  22. Chap. LVI. [Sect. IX.]
  23. Chap. LVII
  24. Chap. LVIII. [Sect. X.]
  25. Chap. LIX–LX
  26. Chap. LXI–LXII
  27. Chap. LXIII
  28. Chap. LXIV. [Sect. XI.]
  29. Chap. LXV–LXVII
  30. Chap. LXVIII
  31. Chap. LXIX. [Sect. XII.]
  32. Chap. LXX
  33. Chap. LXXI. [Sect. XIII.]
  34. Chap. LXXII. [Sect. XIV.]
  35. Chap. LXXIII–LXXIV
  36. Chap. LXXV. [Sect. XV.]
  37. Chap. LXXVI–LXXVII
  38. Chap. LXXVIII–LXXX
  39. Chap. LXXXI
  40. Chap. LXXXII. [Sect. XVI.]
  41. Chap. LXXXIII
  42. Chap. LXXXIV. [Sect. XVII.]
  43. Chap. LXXXV–Lxxxviii
  44. Chap. LXXXIX
  45. Chap. XC. [Sect. XVIII.]
  46. Chap. XCI. [Sect. XIX.]
  47. Chap. XCII
  48. Chap. XCIII–XCV
  49. Chap. XCVI
  50. Chap. XCVII–XCIX
  51. Chap. C–CIII
  52. Chap. CIV–CV

About this edition

Source: Project Gutenberg #77815

Public domain: Public domain worldwide (1821 translation; Laurence died 1838).

What’s included: The 1883 edition: the introduction and all 105 chapters of Laurence’s translation. The Library also has R. H. Charles’s later translation (The Book of Enoch).

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