Tag: Book of the Secrets of Enoch

Chapter 20 Hence they took Enoch into the seventh heaven 1 And those two men lifted me up thence on to the seventh heaven, and I saw there a very great light, and fiery troops of great archangels (2), incorporeal forces, and dominions, orders and governments, cherubim and seraphim, thrones and many-...

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...

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 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,...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

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...