Of the taking up of Enoch into the fifth Heaven
1 The men took and brought me up into the fifth heaven, and I saw there many hosts not to be counted Spirits...with six wings. The moon has its attendant six-winged spirits as the sun has its ¢welve-winged attendants (xii.).. This verse deals with the Metonic cycle. This cycle consists of a period of nineteen solar years, after which the new moons happen on the same days of the year. As nineteen solar years =,939-1860 days=235 lunar months = nineteen lunar years and seven months, the solar and lunar years can be reconciled by intercalating seven lunar months at the close of the 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 16th, and 19th years of the cycle.
2 And their countenances were withered, and their lips are always silent. And there was no service in the fifth heaven. And I said to the men who were with me: ‘Why are these men very size was ereater than that of the giants. 8 D> withered, and their faces melancholy, and their lips silent, and there is no service in this heaven ?’
3 And they said to me: ‘These are the Grigori, who, with their prince Satanail, huge limbed, A. B oM. REST OF CHAPTER. 2 Greater than great wonders, B. Great and they were as to the inhabitants of the fifth According to the latter the inhabitants are of of rejected the holy! Lord. things they are kept in great darkness in the second heaven; and of them there went three to the earth from the throne of God to the place Ermon; and they entered into dealings
4 And in consequence of these on the side of Mount Iermon, and they saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and took unto themselves wives.
5 And they made the earth foul with their deeds. And they acted lawlessly in all times of this age, and wrought confusion, and the giants were born, and the strangely tall men, and there was much wickedness. of this God judged them with a mighty judgement.
6 And on account And they lament for their brethren, and they will be punished at the great day of the Lord.
7 And I said to the Grigori: ‘I have seen your brethren and their works, and their great leaders who,’ i.. the lustful watchers.. There is a confusion in this verse. In vii. Enoch has seen the rebellious watchers being tortured inthe second heaven; whereas he says here that he torments?. And I have prayed for them, but God has condemned them (to be) under the earth, till the heaven and earth are ended for ever.’
8 And I said: ‘Why do ye wait, brethren, and not serve before the face of the Lord ? and perform your duties before the face of the Lord, and do not anger your Lord to the end.’
9 And they listened And they stood in the four orders in this heaven, and lo as I was standing with these men, four to my rebuke. trumpets resounded together with a loud voice, and the Grigori sang with one voice, and their voices went forth before the Lord with sadness and tenderness.