233:, part To understand the foreboding allegory of the day of Judgement and the Book of Life, one must invest in finding a verse or indication of holiness before the eyes of God in which he finds himself at home and in line with his whole being, by doing so his name, or his "actions" are recorded in the holy scriptures, ensuring his place before God as holy. Jeremiah 13:1 Thus says the Lord to me, "Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water."So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
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speaks of two heavenly tablets or books: a Book of Life for the righteous, and a Book of Death for those that walk in the paths of impurity and are written down on the heavenly tablets as adversaries (of God). Also, according to
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A book of life motif is frequently found in Jewish houses of worship. It is both a decorative feature and fundraiser. Some synagogues have raised money by inscribing congregation member's names in a "book of life" as a tribute to their financial generosity.
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of glory with "the Book" or "the Books of Life" ("of the Living") opened before him. So are, according to Enoch 56:1, the righteous "written before the glory of the Great One," and, according to Enoch 108:3, the transgressors "blotted out of the
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meaning, the Jewish liturgy and the tradition relating to the New Year and
Atonement days adhered to the ancient view, which took the Book of Life in its natural meaning, preferring, from a
309:(Phil 4:3), and "the assembly of the first-born" (Hebrews 12:23; compare I Clem. 45). Allusion is made also in Enoch 81:4, 89:61–77, 90:17–20, 98:6-15, 104:7;
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