CHAPTER 41
1 And after this, I saw all the secrets of Heaven, and how the Kingdom is divided, and how the deeds of men are weighed in the Balance.
(The Book of Enoch 61:8), (1 Samuel 2:3), (Job 6:1-3), (Job 31:4-6), (Daniel 5:22-28), (Revelation 19:7-8)
2 There I saw the Dwelling of the Chosen, and the Resting Places of the Holy; and my eyes saw there all the sinners who deny the name of the Lord of Spirits being driven from there. And they dragged them off, and they were not able to remain, because of the punishment that went out from the Lord of Spirits.
(Psalm 26:8), (Isaiah 32:18), (Isaiah 33:20)
3 And there my eyes saw the secrets of the flashes of lightning and of the thunder. And the secrets of the winds, how they are distributed in order to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the clouds, and of the dew; and there I saw from where they go out, in that place. And how, from there, the dust of the earth is saturated.
(Job 28:24-26), (Job 38:24-25), (Psalm 77:18), (Revelation 4:5), (Psalm 135:7), (Jeremiah 10:13), (Jeremiah 51:16)
4 And there I saw closed storehouses from which the winds are distributed, and the storehouse of the hail, and the storehouse of the mist, and the storehouse of the clouds; and its cloud remained over the earth, from the beginning of the world.
(Ecclesiastes 1:6), (Sirach 43:13-22)
5 And I saw the Chambers of the Sun and the Moon, where they go out, and where they return. And their glorious return; and how one is more honoured than the other is. And their magnificent course, and how they do not leave their course, neither adding nor subtracting from their course. And how they keep faith in one another, observing their oath.
(Psalm 104:19), (Job 9:7)
6 And the Sun goes out first, and completes its journey at the command of the Lord of Spirits – and his Name endures forever and ever.
(Psalm 19:1-5), (Sirach 43:1-5), (Ecclesiastes 1:5)
7 And after this is the hidden, and visible, path of the Moon, and it travels the course of its journey, in that place, by day and by night. One stands opposite the other, in front of the Lord of Spirits, and they give thanks, and sing praise, and do not rest, because their thanksgiving is like rest to them.
(Sirach 43:6-8), (Psalm 148:3)
8 For the shining Sun makes many revolutions; for a blessing and for a curse. And the path of the journey of the Moon is for the righteous light but for the sinners; darkness. In the Name of the Lord, who has created a division between light and darkness, and has divided the spirits of men, and has established the spirits of the righteous, in the name of His Righteousness.
(Psalm 72:1), (Isaiah 32:1, 17), (Isaiah 61:3), (Romans 1:17), (Romans 8:4), (James 3:18)
9 For no Angel hinders, and no power is able to hinder, because the judge sees them all, and judges them all Himself.