2 Enoch 15
2 Enoch 15
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Zhe Creatures of the Suu; the Phoenines and Chalkidii sang
XV. 1. Then sang the creatures ® called the Phoenixes and the Chalkidri. On this account every bird claps its wings, rejoicing at the giver of light, * and they sang a song at the command of the Lord °. 2. The giver of light comes to give his brightness to * the whole world!®. 3. * And they showed me the calculation of the going of the sun. And the gates by which he enters and goes out are great gates, which God made for the computation of the year™. 4. * On this account the sun is great *”.
1 So B and Sok., but that the former reads four instead of four hundred. A reads but the crown of his splendour is in heaven before the Lord: and there are four hundred angels attending Him. 2 Revolves, B Sok. Goes under the earth, A. 3 And rests, A. * Bom.; A Sok. support text, hut that Sok. omits complete. After night A adds and reaches half his course under the earth. > At the Eastern gates, B; Sok. om. 6 B om. 7 He brings forth his luminary and his shining crown, and the sun is lighted up more than fire, A. And places ou it again the crown, B.
XV. * A adds of the sun; B omITs VERSES I, 2. °% Singing with their voices, Sok. 10 His creation, Sok.; A adds and there will be the guards of the morning, which are the rays of the sun and the earthly sun will go out and will receive his brightness to light up all the face of the earth. So A and Sok. B reads this arrangement of the gates by which he enters and goes out the two angels showed me; these gates the Lord made for the computation and his yearly record of the sun. 7? B om.; A adds its revolutions extend to twenty-eight years, and so it was from the beginning.
Tay Ghwv, kal rouTov yapw éexpvBn 7d XV.1. See xii. r (note). Every gas dw aitav. 3. Sevencomplete bird. We should expect ‘all these hours in the night. This is corrupt. winged creatures,’ i.c. the Phoenixes The writer must have known that the and Chalkidri. Or are we to take it length of the night varied with thesea- that the early song of birds at sun- son. In the Eth. En. a chapter (xxii) rise is here referred to? hut this is is devotéd to the explanation of the unlikely.
varying lengths of the day and night.
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18 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
[The Men took Enoch and placed him at the East, at the