The StoryLine of Christian Precreation Rhetorolect LESSON 3: OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AS A RESOU

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The Story-Line of Christian Precreation
RhetorolectLESSON 3 OLD TESTAMENT
PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AS A RESOURCE FOR CHRISTIAN
PRECREATION RHETOROLECT

• In the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, a later
  writing called 2 Enoch, written in Slavonic,
  develops the story of Gods creation of visible
  things out of the invisible.
• 2 Enoch probably was written too late to be a
  resource for Christian Precreation Rhetorolect,
  but it contains assertions that help an
  interpreter understand certain statements in New
  Testament literature.

• Click to read 2 Enoch 24.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
GOD TELLS ENOCH ABOUT THE
CREATION OF VISIBLE THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE

• 2 Enoch 241 About the great secrets of God,
  which God revealed and related to Enoch and he
  spoke with him face to face. And the Lord called
  me and he said to me, Enoch, sit to the left of
  me with Gabriel. And I bowed down to the Lord.
  
• 242 And the Lord spoke to me Enoch, beloved,
  all that you see, all things that are standing
  still or moving about were brought to perfection
  by me. And I myself will explain it to you.

• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 24.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (1)

• 2 Enoch 242 Before anything existed at all, from
  the very beginning, whatever exists I created
  from non-being to being, and from the invisible
  into the visible.
• 243 And not even to my angels have I explained
  my secrets, nor related to them their
  composition, nor my endless and inconceivable
  creation which I conceived.
• 244 For before any visible things had come into
  existence, I, the ONE, moved around in the
  invisible things, like the sun, from east to west
  and from west to east.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 24-25.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (2)

• 2 Enoch 245 But the sun has rest in himself yet
  I did not find rest, because everything was not
  yet created. And I conceived the thought wisdom
  of establishing a foundation, to create a visible
  creation.
• 2 Enoch 251 And I commanded the lowest things
  Let one of the invisible things descend
  visibly! and Adoil descended, extremely large.
  And I looked at him, and behold, in his belly he
  had a great light.
• 252 And I said to him, Disintegrate yourself,
  Adoil, and let what is born from you become
  visible.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 25.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (3)

• 2 Enoch 252 And he disintegrated himself, and
  there came out a very great light.
• 253 And I was in the midst of the great light.
  And light out of light is carried thus. And the
  great age came out, and it revealed all the
  creation which I had thought up to create.
• 254 And I saw that it was good.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 25.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (4)

• 2 Enoch 255 And I placed for myself a throne,
  and I sat down on it. And then to the light I
  spoke You go up higher (than the throne), and
  be solidified much higher than the throne, and
  become the foundation for the highest things.
• 256 And there is nothing higher than the light,
  except nothing itself. And again I bowed myself,
  and I looked upward from my throne.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 26.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (5)

• 2 Enoch 261 God summons from the very lowest
  things a second time, so that Archas
  (Beginnings), both heavy and red, should come
  out. And I called out a second time into the
  very lowest things, and I said Let one of the
  (in)visible things come out visibly, solid.
• 262 And Archas came out, solid and heavy and
  very red.
• 263 And I said Open yourself up, Archas, and
  let what is born from you become visible!
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 26.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (6)

• 2 Enoch 263 And he disintegrated himself. There
  came out an age, dark, very large, carrying the
  creation of all lower things! And I saw that it
  was good. And I said to him,
• 264 Come down low and become solid! And become
  the foundation of the lowest things! And it came
  about. And he came down and became solid. And he
  became the foundation of the lowest things. And
  there is nothing lower than the darkness, except
  nothing itself.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 27.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (7)

• 2 Enoch 271 And how God founded the water, and
  surrounded it with light, and established on it
  seven islands.
• And I gave the command Let there be taken some
  of the light and some of the darkness.
• 272 And I said, Become thickened, and be
  wrapped around with light! and I spread it out,
  and it became water. And I spread it out above
  the darkness, below the light.
• 273 And thus I made the solid waters, that is to
  say, the Bottomless.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 27.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (8)

• 2 Enoch 273 And I made a foundation of light
  around the water. And I created seven great
  circles inside it,
• and I gave them an appearance of crystal, wet and
  dry, that is to say glass and ice, and to be the
  circuit for water and the other elements.
• And I pointed out to each one of this his route,
  to the seven stars, each one of them in his own
  heaven, so that they might travel accordingly.
• And I saw that it was good.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 27.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (9)

• 2 Enoch 274 And I made a division between the
  light and between the darkness, that is to say,
  in the middle of the waters, this way and that
  way.
• And I said to the light that it should be day,
  and to the darkness (I commanded) that it should
  be night. And evening came, and (again) morning
  came, (that is) the first day.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 30.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (10)

• 2 Enoch 308 On the sixth day I commanded my
  wisdom to create the human out of the seven
  components
• (1) his flesh from earth
• (2) his blood from dew and from the sun
• (3) his eyes from the bottomless sea
• (4) his bones from stone
• (5) his reason from the mobility of angels and
  from clouds
• (6) his veins and hair from grass of the earth
• (7) his spirit from my spirit and from wind.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 30.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (11)

• 2 Enoch 309 And I gave the human 7 properties
• (1) hearing to the flesh
• (2) sight to the eyes
• (3) smell to the spirit
• (4) touch to the veins
• (5) taste to the blood
• (6) to the bones, endurance
• (7) to the reason, sweetness.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 30.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (12)

• 2 Enoch 3010 Behold, I have thought up an
  ingenious poem to recite
• From invisible and visible substances I created
  the human.
• From both of the natures invisible and visible
  come both death and life.
• And as my image the human knows speech like no
  other creature.
• But even at its greatest the human is small,
• and again at its smallest the human is great.
• Click to continue with 2 Enoch 30.

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Resource
THE CREATION OF VISIBLE
THINGS OUT OF THE INVISIBLE cont. (13)

• 2 Enoch 3010 And on the earth I assigned the
  human to be a second angel, honored and great and
  glorious.
• 3011 And I assigned the human to be a king, to
  reign on the earth, and to have my wisdom.
• Click for a summary.

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Good Work!

• In this lesson you have learned that
• In the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 Enoch
  develops the story of Gods creation of visible
  things out of the invisible.
• 2 Enoch contains assertions that help an
  interpreter to understand certain statements in
  New Testament literature.
• Click to continue the summary.

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Summary Continued

• In 2 Enoch, being came from nonbeing and visible
  things come from the invisible. Before God
  created the world, there was only God, the
  invisible, and nonbeing.
• God conceived the thought and acquired the
  wisdom to turn the invisible into visible
  creation.
• Click to continue.

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Excellent!

• In 2 Enoch, when God called the invisible to
  become visible, Adoil disintegrated himself and
  thus let out a great light.
• Light permeated everything, surrounded God, and
  allowed God to see the visible creation which was
  invisible in his mind.
• With the presence of light, God saw that the
  visible creation was good.
• According to 2 Enoch, Light and Wisdom aid God
  in the creation of all things visible.
• Click to continue.

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Congratulations!!!!

THIS WAS THE THIRD LESSON on the Christian
Precreation Story-Line. The next lesson
focuses on Christian precreation rhetorolect in
Pauls letter of 1 Corinthians. Wonderful job!