1 Enoch 23:4
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
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.’
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.