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A lithograph of the biblical figure Enoch by William Blake, 1806–7. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A lithograph of the biblical figure Enoch by William Blake, 1806–7. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Observation
Jon D. Levenson
Aug. 4 2020
About the author

Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Library of Jewish Ideas; Princeton University Press).

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with His angels, and then he will repay everyone according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

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