Tag: 2 Enoch

Chapter 44 Enoch instructs his sons, that they revile not the face of man, small or great 1 The Lord with his hands having created man, in the likeness of his own face, the Lord made him small and great. 2 Whoever reviles the ruler’s face, and abhors the Lord’s face, has despised the Lord's face, an...

Chapter 5 Of how the angels keep the store-houses of the snow 1 And here I looked down and saw the treasure-houses of the snow, and the angels who keep their terrible store-houses, and the clouds whence they come out and into which they go....

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 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 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 36 God commanded Enoch to live on earth thirty days, to give instruction to his sons and to his children’s children and after thirty days he was again taken on to heaven 1 Now, Enoch, I give you the term of thirty days to spend in your house, and tell your sons and all your household, that a...

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 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 58 Enoch’s instructions to his sons 1 Listen to me, my children, to-day. 2 In those days when the Lord came down on to earth for Adam’s sake, and visited all his creatures, which he created himself, after all these he created Adam, and the Lord called all the beasts of the earth, all the rep...