3 Enoch Chapter 43: Historical English Edition

The Hebrew Book · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

R. Ishmael the abode of the unborn spirits and of the spirits of the righteous dead R. Ishmael said: Metatron said to me: (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹ Come and I will show thee 1where are1 the spirits of the righteous that have been created and have returned, and the spirits of the righteous that have not yet been created. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² And he lifted me up to his side, took me by his hand and lifted me up near the Throne of Glory by the place of the Shekina ; and he revealed the Throne of Glory to me, and he showed me the spirits that have been created and had returned : and they were flying above the Throne of Glory before the Holy One, blessed be He. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ After that I went to interpret the following verse of Scripture and I found in what is written (Isa.Ivii. 16): "for the spirit clothed itself before me, and the souls I have made" that ("for the spirit was clothed before me") means the spirits that have been created in the chamber of creation of the righteous and that have returned before the Holy One, blessed be He; (and the words:) "and the souls I have made" refer to the spirits 4 of the righteous that have not yet been created in the chamber (GUPH). (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)