Tag: 2 Enoch

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 60 He who does injury to the soul of another man, does injury to his own soul 1 He who works the killing of a man’s soul, kills his own soul, and kills his own body, and there is no cure for him for all time. 2 He who puts a man in any snare, shall stick in it himself, and there is no cure f...

Chapter 26 God summons from the very deepest a second time that Archas, heavy and very red should come forth 1 And I summoned the very lowest a second time, and said: Let Archas (8) come forth hard, and he came forth hard from the invisible. (8) Archas. Or, "Spirit of creation." 2 And Archas came fo...

Chapter 50 Of how none born on earth can remain hidden nor his work remain concealed, but God bids us to be meek, to endure attack and insult, and not to offend widows and orphans 1 I have put every man’s work in writing and none born on earth can remain hidden nor his works remain concealed. 2 I se...

Chapter 53 Enoch confirms the word from the Lord’s lips to his children that they must obey the will of the Lord on their own 1 And now, my children, do not say: Our father is standing before God, and is praying for our sins, for there is there no helper of any man who has sinned. 2 You see how I wr...

Chapter 55 Here Enoch shows his sons, telling them with tears, that the time has approached for him to be taken up into heaven, as the angels are standing before him 1 My children, behold, the day of my term and time have approached. 2 For the angels who shall go with me are standing before me and u...

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...

Chapter 23 Of Enoch’s writing, how he wrote his wonderful jouneyings and the heavenly hosts and himself wrote three hundred and sixty-six books 1 And he was telling me all the works of heaven, earth and sea, and all the elements, their passages and goings, and the thunderings of the thunders, the su...

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 16 They took Enoch and again placed him in the east at the course of the moon 1 Those men showed me the other course, that of the moon, twelve great gates, crowned from west to east, by which the moon goes in and out of the customary times. 2 It goes in at the first gate to the western place...

Chapter 39 Enoch’s pitiful admonition to his sons with weeping and great lamentation, as he spoke to them 1 Oh my children, my beloved ones, hear the admonition of your father, as much as is according to the Lord’s will. 2 I have been let come to you to-day, and announce to you, not from my lips, bu...

Chapter 51 Enoch instructs his sons, that they hide not treasures in the earth, but bids them give alms to the poor 1 Stretch out your hands to the poor according to your strength. 2 Hide not your silver in the earth. 3 Help the faithful man in affliction, and affliction will not find you in the tim...