It certainly dates from
a vast antiquity. It is as follows:
"Enoch, a righteous man, who was with God, answered and spoke while
his eyes were open, and while _he saw a holy vision in the heavens_.
. . .
"Upon this account I spoke, and conversed with him who will _go forth
from his habitation_, the holy and mighty One, the God of the world.
"Who will hereafter tread upon the mountain Sinai, and _appear with
his hosts_, and he manifested in the strength of his power from
heaven.
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"All shall be afraid, and the watchers be terrified. Great fear and
trembling shall seize even to the ends of the earth.
"The lofty mountains shall be troubled, and the exalted hills
depressed, _melting like honeycomb in the flame_.
"The earth shall be _immerged_, and _all things_ which are in it
_perish_. . . .
"He shall preserve the elect, and toward them exercise clemency. . .
. The whole earth is full of water."
This is either history or prophecy.
In the Second Epistle General of Peter, (chap. iii,) we have some
allusions to the past, and some prophecies based upon the past, which
are very curious:
Verse 5.
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