Apocalypse of Abraham 26

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 I said: 0 ETERNAL Mighty One! Why have you established that it should be so,

2and then proclaimed the knowledge thereof?”.

3And He said to me: “Hear Abraham, and understand what I say to you, answer my question.

4Why did your father Terah not listen to your voice,

5and why did he not cease from his idolatrous practices, together with his whole house?”

6And I said: “0 ETERNAL One! It was entirely because he did not choose to listen to my voice,

7and likewise I did not choose to listen to his counsel.”

8And He said to me: “The will of your father is within him,

9and your own will is within you, and so also the counsel of my own will is within you,

10and is ready for the coming days, even before you have any knowledge of them3 or can see with your eyes what is the future of them.

11Now look again into the picture, and see how it will be with your seed.”

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.