2 Enoch 31
2 Enoch 31
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
God gives Paradise to Adam, and gives him Knowledge, so
as to see the Heavens open, and that he should see the Angels singing a Song of Trinmph.|
XXXI. 1. Adam had a life on earth*,… and I made a garden in Eden in the East, and (I ordained) that he should observe the law and keep * the instruction °. 2. I made for him the heavens open that he should perceive the angels singing the song of trumph. And there was light * without any * darkness continually in Paradise. 3. And the devil took thought, as if wishing to make another world, because things were subservient to Adam on earth, to rule it and _have lordship over it. 4. The devil is to be the evil spirit of the lowest places®; *he became Satan, after he left the heavens. 5. And then, * though he became different from the angels in nature, he did not change his understanding of just and sinful
His name was formerly Satanail °,
1 Sok. adds as he slept.
XXXII. 7 There is evidently a lacuna here. 8 It, Sok. B omits ENTIRE CHAPTER. * That never knew, Sok. 5 A adds as he wrought devilish things. § As flying from the heavens he became Satan, since his name was Satanail, Sok.
of the writers of the Book of Wisdom. When, however, we come down to N. T. times we find it the current view in the Pauline Epistles: cf. Rom. vy. 123 1 Cor. xv. 21; 2 Cor. xi. 3. On various views on sin and death and their causes see Eth. En. vi-vili; x. 8; xxxil. 6; lxix. 6, 11; xevili. 4, with notes. 18. By his wife death came: cf. Ecclus. xxv. 23; 1 Tim.ii.14, See preceding note. I received hislast word. Corrupt.
XXXI. 2. This verse is almost quoted in the Book of Adam and
ice I. viii. ‘ When we dwelt in the garden … we saw the angels that sang praises in heaven.’ According to 8. Ephrem, i. 139, Adatn and Eve lost the angelic vision on their fall (Malan). Philo, Quaest. xxxii. in Gen., believes ‘oculis illos praeditos esse quibus potuerunt etiam eas quae in coelo sunt.’ For the continual light in Paradise see Book of Adam and Eve, J. xii; xiii; xiv. 3. On the envy of Satan see Wisdom, ii. 24; Joseph. Antt.i, 1. 45 Weber, 211,244. 4, See notes on xviii, 3 and xxix. 4.
thoughts’. He understood the judgement upon him, and the former sin which he had sinned. 6, And on account of this, he conceived designs against Adam ; in such a manner he entered? and deceived Eve. But he did not touch Adam. 7- * But I cursed him for (his) ignorance ?: but those I pre- viously blessed, them I did not curse 4, 8. nor man did I curse, nor the earth, nor any other things created, but the evil fruié of man, and then his works.