Tag: 2 Enoch

Chapter 9 The showing to Enoch of the place of the righteous and compassionate 1 This place, O Enoch, is prepared for the righteous, who endure all manner of offence from those that exasperate their souls, who avert their eyes from iniquity, and make righteous judgment, and give bread to the hungeri...

Chapter 2The instruction of Enoch to his sons 1 Listen to me, my children, I know not whither I go, or what will befall me; now therefore, my children, I tell you: turn not from God before the face of the vain, who made not Heaven and earth, for these shall perish and those who worship them, and may...

About the Book of the Secrets of Enoch (also referred to as "Slavonic Enoch" or "2 Enoch") An entirely different Enoch manuscript has survived in the Slavonic language. This text, dubbed "2 Enoch" and commonly called "the Slavonic Enoch," was discovered in 1886 by a professor Sokolov in the archives...

Chapter 40 Enoch admonishes his children truly of all things from the Lord’s lips, how he saw and heard and wrote down 1 And now, my children, I know all things, for this is from the Lord’s lips, and this my eyes have seen, from beginning to end. 2 I know all things, and have written all things into...

Chapter 66 Enoch instructs his sons and all the elders of the people, how they are to walk with terror and trembling before the Lord, and serve him alone and not bow down to idols, but to God, who created heaven and earth and every creature, and to his image 1 And now, my children, keep your souls f...

Chapter 27 Of how God founded the water, and surrounded it with light, and established on it seven islands 1 And I commanded that there should be taken from light and darkness, and I said: Be thick, and it became thus, and I spread it out with the light, and it became water, and I spread it out over...

Chapter 7 Of how Enoch was taken on to the second heaven 1 And those men took me and led me up on to the second heaven, and showed me darkness, greater than earthly darkness, and there I saw prisoners hanging, watched, awaiting the great and boundless judgment, and these angels were dark-looking, mo...

Chapter 12 Of the very marvellous elements of the sun 1 And I looked and saw other flying elements of the sun, whose names are Phoenixes and Chalkydri, marvellous and wonderful, with feet and tails in the form of a lion, and a crocodile’s head, their appearance is empurpled, like the rainbow; their ...

Chapter 46 Of how an earthly ruler does not accept from man abominable and unclean gifts, then how much more does God abominate unclean gifts, but sends them away with wrath and does not accept his gifts 1 Hear, my people, and take in the words of my lips. 2 If any one bring any gifts to an earthly ...

Chapter 56 Methosalam asks of his father blessing, that he may take Enoch food to eat 1 Mathosalam having answered his father Enoch, said: What is agreeable to your eyes, father, that I may make before your face, that you may bless our dwellings, and your sons, and that your people may be made glori...

Chapter 45 God shows how he does not want from men sacrifices, nor burnt-offerings, but pure and contrite hearts 1 Whoever hastens to make offerings before the Lord’s face, the Lord for his part will hasten that offering by granting of his work. 2 But whoever increases his lamp before the Lord’s fac...

Chapter 6 Of the dew and of the olive-oil, and various flowers 1 They showed me the treasure-house of the dew, like oil of the olive, and the appearance of its form, as of all the flowers of the earth; further many angels guarding the treasure-houses of these things, and how they are made to shut an...