To Sit With Me in My Throne
The R. H. Charles translation · Edited by J.D. Murphy
The book Jude quoted, set beside the Scriptures that answer it. Every verse of 1 Enoch carries the Old Testament behind it, the New Testament that picks it up, and the earliest Christians who read it, written out in full in the margin of the same page.
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No commentary. The commentary is the Bible itself.
There is no running commentary in this library. Not the editor's, not a scholar's, not a denomination's. The only commentary is the kind the first Christians had: the apostles and the prophets, and the disciples of those apostles, speaking in their own words.
The references are written out in full in the margin, beside the verse they belong to, so the page reads straight through and studies easily. Read the verse. Read what stands beside it. Draw your own conclusions.
The law, the prophets and the writings the apostles preached from.
What the apostles and their companions wrote down.
Enoch, Jubilees, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Damascus Document and the Apocrypha. The books in the room when the New Testament was written.
The men the apostles taught: Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Barnabas, the Didache and Hermas.
The generations right after them, before Nicaea: Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Cyprian and more.
On the page, the two generations of Fathers share one mark: DA, the Disciples of the Apostles.
“They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”Acts 17:11
Jude quotes Enoch by name. Peter writes of angels cast down and delivered into chains of darkness. Jesus speaks of the Son of Man seated on the throne of His glory. The Old Testament never explains any of it. Enoch does, and the men who wrote the New Testament wrote to readers who already knew it.
This edition puts those passages together on one page. Jude's quotation sits beside the verse he quoted. The Elect One seated on the throne in 1 Enoch 51 sits beside Revelation 3:21, the promise that gives this volume its title. The Watchers bound in Enoch sit beside the angels Peter says are reserved unto judgment.
Other editions hand you the text and leave you alone with it, or hand you someone's opinion of it. This one hands you the conversation the first Christians were already having.
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne.”Revelation 3:21
These are pages from the finished book. The verse runs down one column, and the passages that speak to it are written out beside it.
Hundreds of passages of Scripture printed in full beside the verse they belong to. No flipping, no second Bible, no app.
Each margin card names its source: Old Testament, New Testament, Second Temple, or Disciples of the Apostles. A Pillar badge marks where Enoch touches one of the Nine Pillars of Volume I.
Charles's scholarly brackets, daggers and accents are cleared from the reading text. Supplied words are in italics, as in the King James Bible, and the chapters run in order.
R. H. Charles's 1912 Oxford translation in his own wording, with a selection of his notes and every New Testament parallel he identified gathered into one table.
Sixteen early Christian witnesses, among them Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Cyprian, quoted in their own words and tied to the verse they speak to.
A glossary of the angels, Watchers and persons of the book, a pronunciation guide, a full Scripture index, an index of sources, and a section of further parallels.
Classic engravings and drawings by Gustave Doré, Albrecht Dürer and William Blake, placed beside the passages they illustrate.
Volume XV of a fifteen-volume library. Matching covers, numbered spines, one reference system, keyed to the standard numbering already in your Bible.
All 108 chapters, in R. H. Charles's numbering and order.
The angels who left their first estate, the giants born to them, and Enoch's journeys through heaven and earth.
The Son of Man, the Elect One, seated on the throne of glory to judge the earth.
The courses of the sun, the moon and the stars, and the reckoning of the year.
Two visions: the flood to come, and the history of Israel told as a flock and its shepherds.
Woes on the sinners, comfort for the righteous, the Apocalypse of Weeks, and the birth of Noah.
Fifteen pages, straight from the finished book: How to Use This Study, then 1 Enoch chapters 1 through 8 with the full margin, two Doré plates, and the chart of the Watchers and the arts they taught.
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