1 Enoch 23:1
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Fire That Never Rests
Enoch travels west and sees a fire burning without pause, day or night, running steadily on its course. The angel Raguel tells him this is the fire in the west that pursues the heavenly lights.
- Psalms 19:1 : stands beside the instinct to read the sky as morally significant rather than merely mechanical
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.
Michael S. Heiser
A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol. I — The Book of the Watchers (2019)
A verse-by-verse reader's commentary on chapters 1–36: the closest thing in print to a study Bible for this section.