Finally, we may note that the author of Jude goes beyond even our Apocrypha to cite verbatim several lines from 1 Enoch, an apocalypse written down in several parts from the third century B.C.E. possibly to the first century C.E. Jude 14–15 is a direct quotation of 1 Enoch 1.9: And behold! He comes with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgment upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly; and to convict all flesh of the works of their ungodliness which they have impiously committed, and of