2 Enoch 4
2 Enoch 4
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Of the Angels who rule the Stars
IV. 1. And they brought * before my face the elders, and the rulers of the orders of the stars”, and they showed me the
1 Bom. 2 But keep your hearts in the fear of God, B. For the fear of Him A reads His own paths.
III. Instead of ‘Of the taking up of Enoch, &c.’ B reads ‘ The entry of Enoch into the firat heaven.’ * Throughout this verse A speake of Enoch in the third person. 4 The angels, A. 5 A om. 6 A B add and brought me (him A) to the first heaven, which should he read at end of verse 2. 7 There B. 5 A Bom. ® And there I gazed, and as I gazed higher I saw the air, A. 10 B trans. after the 200 angels, iv. 1.
IV. ” Me before the face of the elder, the ruler of the orders of the stars; and showed me their goings and comings from year to year, B.
- Make confident your hearts in the fear of Him: Prov. xiv. 26. III. 1. Piaced me on the clouds. And la! the clouds moved : cf. Eth. En. xiv. 8 ‘ the clouds invited me… and the winds gave me wings and drove me.’ The air… and the ether. This corresponds to the firma- ment in Ase. Is. vii. 9 ‘ Ascendimus in firmamentum et ibi vidi Samma- elem ejueque potestates .. . 13. et postea me ascendere fecit supra firma-
mentum: hoc jam est (primum) coelum.’ 3. A very great sea: cf, Rev. iv. 6; xv. 2 ‘sea of glass.” In Test. xii. Patriarch. Levi 2 this sea lies hetween the first and second heavens, diwp xpeydyevov dvapecoy tovrou xaxelvou.
IV. 1. Rulers of the orders of the étars, &c. For a full hut divergent account of these see Eth. En. Ixxxii. 9-18, 20. The 200 angels. In the Eth. En. Uriel is the sole ruler of the
Chapters II. 3—VIT,. 1. 5
two hundred angels * who rule the stars and their heavenly
service ! ;
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- And they fly with their wings? * and go
round all (the stars) as they float 1.
| How the Angels guard the Habitations of the Snow.]|
V. 1. And *then I looked and saw the treasuries of the snow * and ice * and the angels ® who guard their terrible ®
store-places ;
- And the treasuries of the clouds from
which they come forth and into which they enter.