2 Baruch 42

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1And He answered and said unto me:

2"These things also will I show unto thee. As for what thou didst say -- 'To whom will these things be, and how many (will they be)?'- to those who have believed there will be the good which was spoken of aforetime, and to those who despise there shall be the contrary of these things.

3And as for what thou didst say regarding those who have drawn near and those who have withdrawn, this is the word.

4As for those who were before subject, and afterwards withdrew and mingled themselves with the seed of mingled peoples, the time of these is the former, and I am meditating deep things.

5And as for those who before knew not but afterwards knew life, and mingled (only) with the seed of the people which had separated itself the time of these (is) the former, I am meditating deep things.

6And time shall succeed to time and season to season, and one shall receive from another, and then with a view to the consummation shall everything be compared according to the measure of the times and the hours of the seasons.

7For corruption will take those that belong to it, and life those that belong to it.

8And the dust will be called, and there will be said to it: "Give back that which is not thine, and raise up all that thou hast kept until its time."

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.