1 Enoch 103:2
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you. I know a mystery And have read the heavenly tablets, And have seen the holy books, And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Oath: Your Lot Is Better Than the Living Think
Enoch swears by God's own greatness that he has read "the heavenly tablets" and seen the fate written there for the righteous dead. He promises that everything good is stored up for "the spirits of those who have died in righteousness," that their reward far exceeds anything available to the living, and that their memory before God will never perish.
- Romans 8:18 : the reward that outweighs present suffering stands beside Paul's own reasoning that present sufferings are "not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us".
- Daniel 12:13 : "your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living" echoes the promise given to Daniel himself: "thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days".
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.