2 Enoch 42 - Adoil and Arkhas: The Two Great Principles

2 Enoch 42
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)


How Enoch wept for the Sins of Adam

XLI. 1. And I saw *all our forefathers from the begin- ning with Adam and Eve!, and I sighed and wept, * and spake of the ruin (caused by) their wickedness? : * Woe is me for my infirmity and that of my forefathers}. 9. And T meditated in my heart and said: ‘Blessed is the man who was not born, or, having been born, has never sinned before the face of the Lord, so that he should not come into this place, to bear the yoke of this place!’

[How Enoch saw those who keep the Keys, and the Guardians