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2 Enoch 8 - The Third Heaven: Paradise

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DescriptionThe third heaven contains Paradise - trees of wondrous fruit, the tree of life, rivers of honey and oil; the righteous will rest here

2 Enoch 8 - The Third Heaven: Paradise

2 Enoch 8
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)

Of the taking of Enoch to the third Heaven

VIII. 1. And these men took me from thence, and brought me to the third heaven, and placed me in the midst of a garden °— a place * such as has never been known for * the goodliness of its appearance °. 2. And *I saw ° all the trees of beautiful colours and’ their fruits ripe * and fragrant ®, and all kinds of * food which they produced 8, springing up with delightful fragrance °. 3. And in the midst (there is) the tree of life, in that place, on which God rests, when He comes into Paradise. And this tree cannot be described for its

  • excellence and sweet odour !°. 4. And it is beautiful more than any created thing. And on all sides in appearance it is like gold and crimson and transparent as fire, and

it covers everything “. 5. *From its root in the

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VIII. 7 Entry into the third Heaven, B. * So Band Sok. A reads There, I looked below and Isaw gardens. *I looked below and saw that place, Sok, 5 Their goodliness, A and Sok. *Bom. * AndI beheld, A. ® Agree- able food,B. ° Baddeand four rivers flowing with soft course and every kindofthing good that growsfor food. These words belong to verse 6. 1° The excellence of its sweet odour, B. ™“ The whole garden, Sok. After this A adds and the gardens have all kinds of fruits; Sok. adds and the garden has all kinde of trees planted and all fruite. GB OMITS VERSE 4.

for you. Who knows whither I go, we find it denounced as a Mani-

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VIII. 1. Agarden: asin2Cor. xii. z, 4 Paradise is placed in the third heaven. 2. All the trees… frag- rant : cf.Gen. ii. 9; Eth. En. xxix. 2 ; Apoc. Mosis (p. 20) … All kinds of food which they produced: cf. Rev. xxii. 2 ‘Bearing twelve manner of fruits.’ 3. In the midst the tree of life: Gen. ii. 9. This is a familiar feature in Jewish Apoca- lypses. Cp. Eth. En. xxv. 4,5; Rev. ii. 7; xxii, 2,145 4 Hara vil. 53; vill. 52; Test. Levi 18. See also Iren. i. 5, 2. When we come to Epiphaniue

chaean doctrine, Hae. 66, p. 278. The tree of life …on which God rests. This is reproduced in a modified form in the Apoc. Pauli (ed. Tischend. p. 64) 5€vdpov mappeyéeOn wpaiov, év @ énavenavero 1O Tvevpa dyov. There is a modification of this idea in Apoc. Mosis (ed. Tischend. p- 12) kal 6 Opdvos Tov Geou Saou Hv 1d Evdov Tis Cans évrpenifero. 5. From its root, &c. This is the source of the words in Apoc. Pauli (ed. Tischend. p. 64) wat éx ris pitys abrov égnp- xerTo wav ebwdéotaravy bomp, pepi- Cépevoy eis Téeacapa dpiypara. The

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garden! there go forth four? streams which pour honey and milk *, oil and wine, and are separated in four directions, and go about with a soft course. 6. And they go down to the Paradise of Eden, between corruptibility and incorruptibility. And thence‘ they go along the earth, and have a revolution in their cirele like also the other elements®, 7, * And there is another tree, an olive tree always distilling oil®. And there is no tree there without fruit, and every tree” is blessed §. 8. And there are *three hundred angels very glorious, who keep the garden®, and with never ceasing voices and blessed singing, they serve the Lord every day!°. And I said!’: ‘What a very ! blessed place is this!’ And those men spake uuto me:

[The showing to Enoch of the Righteous, and the Place

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