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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: 14 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/14/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 14. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/14/"
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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.

## 14. Chapter 13

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/14/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/14/#p-N

### Of the wonderful Creatures of the Sun

[¶1] 1 And I looked and saw other flying creatures, their names phoenixes and chalkadri wonderful and strange 1 Their dimensions, B. 2? And I saw their goings, B.. 4 His circle and his chariot, A; and around them isachariot, B. They go always, A. "Bom:’ He has, A. and night.’ in appearance, with the feet and tails of lions, and the heads of crocodiles!; their appearance was of a purple colour, like Siir Talmud 908-9. On the question generally see Lightfoot, and Gebhardt and Harnack on Allgemeine. who is over Paradise T4 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.

[¶2] 2 Their wings were like those of angels, each with twelve, and they the rainbow; their size nine hundred measures. attend the chariot of the sun, and go with him’, bringing So the sun makes his revolutions, and goes under the heavens, heat and dew as they are ordered by God

[¶3] 3. certainly in favour of this view. The tures of Isaiah vi. Ghaplers Ad!). XT7T,, 15 and goes under the earth with the light of his beams unceasingly.