2 Enoch 7
2 Enoch 7
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
How Enoch was taken into the second Heaven
VII. 1. And the men took me and brought me to the
1 Bom.
V. ? They showed me, B. There I saw, Sok.
angels, B. § Bom.
VI. 7 The halm of the olive tree, Sok. as also of, A. And their robes are like, B.
20 B om.
2 B reads immediately after earthly sea, iii. 3. Sok. om.
*Aom. ° Terrible
® And the appearance of it 9 May he iendered flowers.
VII. ’ The Entry of Enoch into the second Heaven, B; Sok. om.
stars: ef. xxii. 1; Ixxx. 1. In Eth. En, vi. 5 this is the number of angels that apostatized.
V. 1. Treasuries of the snow and ice: Job xxxviil. 22; ef. Eth. En. lx. 17, 18. These treasuries are placed in the second heaven by the Test. xii. Patriarch. Levi 3 6 devrepos (obpaves) Exes wip xtdva Kpdoraddoy. 2. Treasuries of the clouds: cf. Eth. Hn, 1x. 19.
VI. 1. Treasuries of the dew: ef. Eth. En. lx. 20. In the Bereseh. rabba c. 6, Bammid’ar rabba, v. 17, and the Chagiga 12°, there is an
enumeration of the seven heavens. The lowest of these which is called vibny (Lat. velum) is empty. Accord- ing to some, it appears in the morning and disappears in the evening (see Weber, p. 197): according to Bera- choth 58 the Wilén is rolled up in order that the light of the second heaven, the Rakia, may be seen. This heaven seems also to he empty according to the Test. xii, Patr. Levi 36 warwrepos bid rovro oruyvdrepds écriv eed} otros 6p macas ddimias dvOpdrray,
6 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
second heaven, and showed me! the darkness, and there I saw ? the prisoners suspended °, reserved for (and) awaiting ® the eternal judgement. 2, * And these angels were gloomy in appearance, more than the darkness of the earth®. * And they unceasingly wept every hour®, and I said to the men who were with me: ‘ Why are these men continually? tor- tured ?’ 3. * And the men ® answered me: ‘ These are they who apostatized from * the Lord’: who obeyed not the commandments of God, and took counsel of their own will
- and transgressed together with their prince and have been already confined to the second heaven 8, 4. And I felt great pity for them. *And lo! the angels ® made obeisance to me, and said to me: “O man of God! * pray-for us to the Lord }°.”- 5. And I answered ™ them: “Who am I, a mortal
1 Sok. adds and I saw. 7 B om.; after darkness, A adds greater than the darkness on sarth. * Bom. * Great and immeasurable, A; immeasurable, Sok. 5 And I saw those who were condemned weep- ing, B. 6 And they, A; The men, Sok. 7 God, A. ®§ Bom. For second A Sok. read fifth. ° They, A; and these angels, Sok. 10 Oh! that thou wouldat pray to God for us! B. 1 Sok. adds and
said unto.
VII. 1. The darkness and… the prisoners… reserved for… judgement: cf. 2 Pet. ii. 4 ‘Com- initted them (the angels that sinned as here) to pits of darkness to be reserved unto judgement.’ These prisoners are the angels that ‘kept not their first estate’ and are ‘reserved… under darkness unto the judgement of the great day,’ Jude 6. They appear to be referred to also in Test. xii. Patr. Levi 3 & air@ (7G Sevrépw ovpavyw) eigi navta Tad mvedpara Tay érayaryov els éxbdixnow tav dvdéuwy, where éraywyav seems corrupt. Ob- serve that the angels who sinned with women are imprisoned under the earth in the Eth, En. x as also in our text xviii. 7. On the other hand the angels who sinned through lust
for empire are prisoners in the second heaven. 3. Took counsel of their own will. For phraseology cf. Eph. i. 11; Is. xlvi. 10. These angels wished to form a kingdom of their own. Cf. Weber, p. 244. Their prince Satanail: xviii. 3. Second heaven. This emendation is neces- sary. When the angels of the fifth heaven rebelled they were cast down to the second heaven and imprisoned there. 4. The angels ask Enoch to intercede for thein, exactly as in Eth. En, xiii. 4. ‘They besought me to draw up a petition that they might find forgiveness. Man of God: Deut. xxxiil. 1; 1 Tim. vi. 11; 2 Tim. iii, 17. 5. Cf. Eth. En. xv. 2 ‘Say to the watchers of heaven… you should intercede for men and not men
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Chapters VII, 2—VIIT. 5. 7
man, that I should pray for angels ? Who knows whither I go, or what awaits me: or who prays * for me!?”.’