The Apocalypse of Elijah (dated from the first to fourth century A.D. according to O. S. Wintermute) 5:30-35 read as follows:
30 On that day, the Lord
will judge the heaven and the earth.
He will judge
those who transgressed in heaven,
and those who did so on earth.
31 He will judge the
shepherds of the people.
He will ask about the flock of sheep,
and they will be given to him,
without any deadly guile existing in them.
32 After these things,
Elijah and Enoch will come down. They will lay down the flesh of the world, and
they will receive their spiritual flesh. They will pursue the son of
lawlessness and kill him since he is not able to speak.
33 On that day, he will
dissolve in their presence like ice which was dissolved by a fire. He will
perish like a serpent which has no breath in it. 34 They will
say to him, “Your time has passed by for you. Now therefore you and those who
believe you will perish.” 35 They will be cast into the bottom
of the abyss and it will be closed for them. (OTP 1:752-53)
Tucker S. Ferda noted that:
In the Apocalypse of Elijah, it is said that Enoch and
Elijah, who were thought to be in heaven and never died, will “come down” and
receive their “spiritual flesh” at the time of the resurrection (5:32). (Tucker
S. Ferda, Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and
Christian Origins [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2024], 373)
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