Further Research

References to the Codices

JS Bach, Cantatas ‘Let all Christians engrave these things on lead…’

Old Testament Non-Canonical

2 Enoch 64
For you shalt be glorified before the Lord’s face for all time, since the Lord chose you, rather than all men on earth, and designated you writer of all his creation, visible (physical) and invisible (spiritual), and redeemed of the sins of man, and helper of your household.

Old Testament
Exodus 32:15-16
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

2 Esdras 14: 42-48
Moreover, the Most High gave understanding to the five men, and by turns they wrote what was dictated, using characters that they did not know. They sat forty days; they wrote during the daytime, and ate their bread at night. 43 But as for me, I spoke in the daytime and was not silent at night. 44 So during the forty days, ninety-four books were written.45 And when the forty days were ended, the Most High spoke to me, saying, “Make public the twenty-four books that you wrote first, and let the worthy and the unworthy read them; 46 but keep the seventy that were written last, in order to give them to the wise among your people.47 For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge.”48 And I did so.

Job 19:24
That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is [a]destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God,

Ecclesiastes, 12:12
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

Isa 8:16-17; 34:16
Bind up this testimony of warning
and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
I will wait for the Lord,
who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.

Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

1 Maccabees 14:18
they engraved on bronze tablets a renewal of the treaty of friendship which they had made with his brothers Judas and Jonathan and sent the tablets to him.

New Testament
Revelation 5:1-5
The Scroll and the Lamb
5 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Non-Canonical

Shepherd of Hermas 2:1
1[5]:3 But after I had risen up from prayer, I behold before me the aged lady, whom also I had seen last year, walking and reading a little book. And she saith to me, “Canst thou report these things to the elect of God?” I say unto her, “Lady, I cannot recollect so much; but give me the little book, that I may copy it.” “Take it,” saith she, “and be sure and return it to me.”

Gnostic – Gospel of Truth
Apocryphon of James, CG I.2.1.

Jewish

Mishnah Sanhedrin 10:1

Josephus, War, 6.312-13
312 But now, what did most elevate them in undertaking this war, was an ambiguous oracle that was also found in their sacred writings, how, “about that time, one from their country should become governor of the habitable earth”

Dead Sea Scrolls

Damascus Document Chapters 11 & 15
The Secret Book of James
‘You have asked me to send you a secret book revealed to Peter and me by the master, and I could not turn you down, nor could I speak to you so I have written it in Hebrew and have sent it to you, and to you alone. But since you are a minister of the salvation of the saints, try to be careful not to reveal to many people this book that the saviour did not want to reveal even to all of us his twelve students. Nonetheless, those who will be saved through the faith.’
‘Twelve months ago I sent you another secret book that the saviour revealed to me. Think of that book as revealed to me, James. But this one…’

Islamic

Quran Surah 18
In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. Praise be to God, who revealed the Book to His servant, and allowed in it no distortion.
9. Did you know that the People of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wondrous signs?
10. When the youths took shelter in the cave, they said, “Our Lord, give us mercy from Yourself, and bless our affair with guidance.”
11. Then We sealed their ears in the cave for a number of years.
17. You would have seen the sun, when it rose, veering away from their cave towards the right, and when it sets, moving away from them to the left, as they lay in the midst of the cave. That was one of God’s wonders. He whom God guides is truly guided; but he whom He misguides, for him you will find no directing friend.
27. And recite what was revealed to you from the Book of your Lord. There is no changing His words, and you will find no refuge except in Him.
49. And the book will be placed, and you will see the sinners fearful of its contents. And they will say, “Woe to us! What is with this book that leaves nothing, small or big, but it has enumerated it?” They will find everything they had done present. Your Lord does not wrong anyone.

Part IV
Daniel 12:4: ‘But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words…’