1 Enoch 14:20
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The House of Crystal and Fire, and the One Enthroned Within
Enoch's dream carries him up into heaven, past a wall of crystal and fire into a great house of crystal and flame, and then into a second, still greater house whose floor and ceiling are pure fire. There he sees a lofty crystal throne with wheels like the shining sun, and "the Great Glory" seated upon it in raiment whiter than snow, surrounded by ten thousand times ten thousand and unapproachable in splendor. God calls Enoch forward by name to hear His word.
- Daniel 7:9 : The throne "like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire," with a garment "white as snow," is the closest parallel in the canon to the throne and raiment Enoch describes here.
- Ezekiel 1:26 : Ezekiel's vision of a throne of sapphire appearance above the fiery living creatures stands beside Enoch's crystal throne set amid flame.
- Revelation 4:2 : John's vision of a throne set in heaven, with one seated upon it, belongs to the same tradition of throne-room visions this chapter draws on.
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The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
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