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title: "The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)"
author: "Enoch (attributed)"
translator: "W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 1 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/1/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 1. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/1/"
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# The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)

*Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles*

The Slavonic Enoch: ten heavens, and a closing fragment on the birth of Melchizedek.

## 1. Prologue

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/1/#p-N

[¶0] THERE was a very ? wise man and a worker of great things: God loved him, and received him, so that he should see the heavenly abodes, the kingdoms of the wise, great, inconeelvable and never-changing God, the Lord of all, the wonderful and glorious, and bright and all-beholding station of the servants of the Lord, and the unapproachable throne of the Lord, and the degrees and manifestations of the incorporeal hosts, and should be an eye-witness of the unspeakable ministrations of the multitude of creatures, and of the varying appearance, and indescribable singing of the host of Cherubim, and of the immeasurable world.