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title: "The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)"
author: "Enoch (attributed)"
translator: "R. H. Charles"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 43 of 108
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/43/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. R. H. Charles, The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), section 43. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/43/"
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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.

## 43. Chapter 43

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/43/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/43/#p-N

### Astronomical Secrets

[¶1] 1 And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. 2 And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other. 3 And I asked the angel who went with me who showed me what was hidden: ‘What are these?’ 4 And he said to me: ‘The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit. ‘their parable’): these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’