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title: "The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)"
author: "Enoch (attributed)"
translator: "R. H. Charles"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 23 of 108
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/23/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. R. H. Charles, The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), section 23. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/23/"
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# The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)

*Enoch (attributed), tr. R. H. Charles*

The Ethiopic book of watchers, parables and visions that Jude quotes.

## 23. Chapter 23

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/23/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/23/#p-N

### The Fire that deals with the Luminaries of Heaven

[¶1] 1 From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. 2 And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3 And I asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’ 4 Then 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.’