2 Baruch 46

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 my son and the elders of the people answered and said unto me: "Has the Mighty One humiliated us to such a degree as to take thee from us quickly?

2And truly we shall be in darkness, and there will be no light to the people who are left.

3For where again shall we seek the law, or who will distinguish for us between death and life?"

4And I said unto them: "The throne of the Mighty One I cannot resist: nevertheless, there shall not be wanting to Israel a wise man nor a son of the law to the race of Jacob.

5But only prepare ye your hearts, that ye may hear the law, and be subject to those who in fear are wise and understanding; and prepare your souls that ye may not depart from them.

6For if ye do these things, good tidings will come unto you. Which I before told you of; nor shall ye fall into the torment, of which I testified to you before."

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.