Tag: 2 Enoch

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 33 God shows Enoch the age of this world, its existence of seven thousand years, and the eighth thousand is the end, neither years, nor months, nor weeks, nor days 1 And I appointed the eighth day also, that the eighth day should be the first-created after my work, and that the first seven r...

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 18 Of the taking of Enoch on to the fifth heaven 1 The men took me on to the fifth heaven and placed me, and there I saw many and countless soldiers, called Grigori, of human appearance, and their size was greater than that of great giants and their faces withered, and the silence of their m...

Chapter 28 The week in which God showed Enoch all his wisdom and power, throughout all the seven days, how he created all the heavenly and earthly forces and all moving things even down to man 1 And then I made firm the heavenly circle, and made that the lower water which is under heaven collect its...

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 31 God gives over paradise to Adam, and gives him a command to see the heavens opened, and that he should see the angels singing the song of victory 1 Adam has life on earth, and I created a garden in Eden in the east, that he should observe the testament and keep the command. 2 I made the h...

Chapter 42 Of how Enoch saw the key-holders and guards of the gates of hell standing 1 I saw the key-holders and guards of the gates of hell standing, like great serpents, and their faces like extinguishing lamps, and their eyes of fire, their sharp teeth, and I saw all the Lord’s works, how they ar...

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 62 Of how it is fitting to bring one’s gifts in faith, because there is no repentance after death 1 Blessed is the man who in his patience brings his gifts with faith before the Lord’s face, because he will find forgiveness of sins. 2 But if he take back his words before the time, there is n...

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 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 ...