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The Forgotten Books of Eden · 165 of 293

Secrets of Enoch: Chapter LX

He who does injury to soul of man, does injury to his own soul, and there is no cure for his flesh, nor pardon for all time. How it is not fitting to kill man neither by weapon nor by tongue.

1.HE who works the killing of a man’s soul, kills his own soul, and kills his own body, and there is no cure for him for all time.

2.He who puts a man in any snare, shall stick in it himself, and there is no cure for him for all time.

3.He who puts a man in any vessel, his retribution will not be wanting at the great judgement for all time.

4.He who works crookedly or speaks evil against any soul, will not make justice for himself for all time.

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Why does the chapter say harming another soul destroys your own soul and body?

The chapter teaches that violence against another person—by deed or tongue—creates a self-inflicted ruin: “He who does injury to soul of man, does injury to his own soul, and there is no cure for his flesh.” It presents wrongdoing as a moral law with inescapable consequences that rebound onto the wrongdoer at the great judgement.

This echoes themes in Proverbs and Jesus’ teachings about sowing and reaping; Proverbs warns that violence returns to the violent, and Jesus links words to judgment in Matthew. The chapter uses vivid, legal language—“there is no cure for him for all time”—to insist that harming others incurs inevitable divine retribution.

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