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The Prophecy Jude Quoted

Jude 14–15 · 1 Enoch 1:9

A source-anchored comparison of the one place the New Testament quotes 1 Enoch: Jude attributes a judgment prophecy to 'Enoch, the seventh from Adam,' and the wording runs alongside 1 Enoch 1:9 in Charles' translation.

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The Compared Witnesses

Christian New Testament

Jude 14–15 (World English Bible)

Language:: Hebrew / English
Composition:: c. 10th–6th century BCE
Earliest Witness:: 4QGen-b (c. 1st century BCE)

World English Bible is a 100% public domain Modern English translation of the Holy Bible.

Second Temple Judaism; canonical in the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church

1 Enoch 1:1–9 (R.H. Charles)

Language:: Ge'ez original / English
Composition:: c. 3rd century BCE (earliest sections; debated)
Earliest Witness:: Aramaic fragments from Qumran (4QEn, c. 2nd–1st century BCE); complete text in Ge'ez (15th century CE manuscripts)

R.H. Charles' 1913 translation of 1 Enoch (SPCK) is in the public domain. The Wikisource transcription is used verbatim; Charles' editorial marks (⌈⌉ conjectures, [ ] restorations) are preserved.

Source-Anchored Slot Comparison

3 thematic slots · deterministic verbatim quotes

The Lord Comes with Ten Thousands of Holy Ones

The shared scene: the Lord arrives accompanied by a vast host of holy ones.

Jude 14–15

HebrewExplicit in text

Jude quotes Enoch's prophecy: the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones.

“About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,”

Jude 14

1 Enoch 1

Ge'ez (Aramaic original lost except in Qumran fragments)Explicit in text

1 Enoch 1:9: He comes with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgement.

“And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈His⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy ⌈all⌉ the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works ⌈of their ungodliness⌉ which they have ungodly committed, ⌈And of all the hard things which⌉ ungodly sinners ⌈have spoken⌉ against Him.”

Bound: Charles' ⌈⌉ marks conjectural readings of the Ethiopic; the correspondence with Jude holds across the textual variants.

1 Enoch 1:9

Judgment and Conviction of the Ungodly

Both texts state the purpose: judgment executed and the ungodly convicted of their deeds and words.

Jude 14–15

HebrewExplicit in text

To execute judgment on all and convict all the ungodly of their works and hard words.

“to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.””

Jude 15

1 Enoch 1

Ge'ez (Aramaic original lost except in Qumran fragments)Explicit in text

To execute judgement upon all, destroy the ungodly, and convict all flesh of ungodly works and hard words.

“And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈His⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy ⌈all⌉ the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works ⌈of their ungodliness⌉ which they have ungodly committed, ⌈And of all the hard things which⌉ ungodly sinners ⌈have spoken⌉ against Him.”

1 Enoch 1:9

Enoch as the Attributed Speaker

Jude names the speaker; 1 Enoch frames the vision as Enoch's own.

Jude 14–15

HebrewExplicit in text

Jude attributes the prophecy to 'Enoch, the seventh from Adam.'

“About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,”

Jude 14

1 Enoch 1

Ge'ez (Aramaic original lost except in Qumran fragments)Explicit in text

The book opens as 'the words of the blessing of Enoch,' a righteous man whose eyes God opened.

“The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked ⌈⌈and godless⌉⌉ are to be removed.”

1 Enoch 1:1–2

Pairwise Textual & Literary Relationships

Rather than assigning a single broad label to multi-tradition corpora, relationships are evaluated as pairwise edges with explicit scholarly consensus ratings and citations.

Relationship: direct-citationConsensus: strong

Scholarly consensus holds that Jude 14–15 quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 (in the Ethiopic numbering; the passage also stands in the Greek Enoch tradition Jude's readers knew). The correspondence in wording — the coming with ten thousands of holy ones, judgment, conviction of the ungodly in deed and word — is too close to be independent.

Scholarly Citations & References

Richard Bauckham, *Jude, 2 Peter* (Word Biblical Commentary 50, 1983), pp. 65–76.
George W.E. Nickelsburg, *1 Enoch 1* (Hermeneia, 2001), pp. 137–145.
R.H. Charles, *The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament*, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1913), introduction to 1 Enoch.

Sourced Reception History

Theological typologies, midrashic developments, and liturgical commemorations separated from the textual diff and grounded in their own historic reception sources.

christianexplicit

1 Enoch as Canonical Scripture

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church includes 1 Enoch in its Old Testament canon; it is the only church to preserve the complete text, in Ge'ez. For Tewahedo readers, Jude's citation is canon quoting canon.

Boundary: The narrower and broader Tewahedo canon lists differ in count; 1 Enoch belongs to both.

Sources Cited

›Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon (81 books)

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Quoted but Not Canonical in Most Western Churches

Most Western churches do not include 1 Enoch in their canon, yet the New Testament quotes it. Interpretations range from reading Jude as endorsing Enochic prophecy to reading the citation as use of a known, authoritative-in-part Second Temple work without full canonical endorsement.

Boundary: The range of positions is genuine; this matrix does not adjudicate them.

Sources Cited

›Bauckham, *Jude, 2 Peter* (1983)
›Carson & Moo, *An Introduction to the New Testament* (2005)

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Enochic Literature in Second Temple Judaism

Multiple Aramaic manuscripts of 1 Enoch were copied at Qumran, showing the work's authority in at least one Second Temple Jewish community; the rabbinic canon does not include it.

Boundary: Qumran's practice does not generalize to all Second Temple Judaism.

Sources Cited

›4QEn a–g (DJD 36); Milik, *The Books of Enoch* (1976)