1 Enoch 83:1
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Earth Swallowed in a Dream
Enoch begins recounting two visions seen before his marriage, starting with a terrifying dream of the heaven collapsing onto the earth, which is then swallowed into a great abyss along with its mountains and trees. His grandfather Mahalalel wakes him and names the dream a true sign that the earth "must sink into the abyss and be destroyed" for the sin upon it, and urges Enoch to pray that a remnant survive. Enoch prays, then rises to see the ordinary world still standing and blesses God for it.
- Isaiah 10:21 : "The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob" — the same preserved-remnant hope Mahalalel urges Enoch to pray for.
- Romans 11:5 : Paul's "remnant according to the election of grace" carries the same instinct into the New Testament: judgment on sin that still spares a seed.
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.