# 3 Enoch (Hebrew Enoch) 31

**Not Scripture.** Read [Why](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#research-notice) and [the Issues With This Book](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#issues-with-this-book).

Not received as Scripture by the Jewish canon or by the major Christian churches, apart from local exceptions such as the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, which includes 1 Enoch and Jubilees. This is not the Apocrypha.

1. R. Ishmael said: Metatron, the Angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me: At the time when the Holy One, blessed be He, is sitting on the Throne of Judgement, (then) Justice is standing on His right and Mercy on His left and Truth before His face.
2. And when man enters before Him to judgement, (then) there comes forth from the splendour of the Mercy towards him as (it were) a staff and stands in front of him. Forthwith man falls upon his face, (and) all the angels of destruction fear and tremble before him, according as it is written (Is. xvi. 5): “And with mercy shall the throne be established, and he shall sit upon it in truth.”

- Edition: odeberg-1928
- Source: https://archive.org/details/3enochorhebrewbo00unse