Tag: 2 Enoch

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 34 God convicts the idolaters and sodomitic fornicators, and therefore brings down a deluge upon them 1 They have rejected my commandments and my yoke, worthless seed has come up, not fearing God, and they would not bow down to me, but have begun to bow down to vain gods, and denied my unity...

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 43 Enoch shows his children how he measured and wrote out God’s judgments 1 I, my children, measured and wrote out every work and every measure and every righteous judgment. 2 As one year is more honourable than another, so is one man more honourable than another, some for great possessions,...

Enoch’s encounter with the two angels of God 1. There was a wise man, a great artificer, and the Lord conceived love for him and received him, that he should behold the uppermost dwellings and be an eye-witness of the wise and great and inconceivable and immutable realm of God Almighty, of the very...

Chapter 13 The angels took Enoch and placed him in the east at the sun’s gates 1 Those men bore me away to the east, and placed me at the sun’s gates, where the sun goes forth according to the regulation of the seasons and the circuit of the months of the whole year, and the number of the hours day ...

Chapter 22 In the tenth heaven the archangel Michael led Enoch to before the Lord’s face 1 On the tenth heaven, which is called Aravoth, I saw the appearance of the Lord’s face, like iron made to glow in fire, and brought out, emitting sparks, and it burns. 2 Thus in a moment of eternity I saw the L...

Chapter 25 God relates to Enoch, how out of the very deepest parts came forth the visible and invisible 1 I commanded in the very lowest parts, that visible things should come down from invisible, and Adoil (7) came down very great, and I beheld him, and lo! He had a belly of great light. (7) Adoil....

Chapter 65 Of Enoch’s instructions to his sons 1 And Enoch answered all his people saying: Hear, my children, before that all creatures were created, the Lord created the visible and invisible things. 2 And as much time as there was and went past, understand that after all that he created man in the...

Chapter 38 Mathusal continued to have hope and to await his father Enoch in his house day and night 1 And the Lord said to those men who first led me up: Let Enoch go down on to earth with you, and await him till the determined day. 2 And they placed me by night on my bed. 3 And Mathusal expecting m...

Chapter 49 Enoch instructs his sons not to swear either by heaven or earth, and shows God’s promise, even in the mother’s womb 1 I swear to you, my children, but I swear not by any oath, neither by heaven nor by earth, nor by any other creature which God created. 2 The Lord said: There is no oath in...

Chapter 47 Enoch instructs his sons from God’s lips, and hands them the handwriting of this book 1 And now, my children, lay thought on your hearts, mark well the words of your father, which are all come to you from the Lord’s lips. 2 Take these books of your father’s handwriting and read them. 3 Fo...