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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: 22 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/22/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 22. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/22/"
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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.

## 22. Chapter 21

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/22/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/22/#p-N

[¶0] 1 And these men took me thence and brought me™ 1 The peaceful order of the world, and the revolutions of the sun,moon, and stars. Other heavenly angels, B. to the seventh heaven, and I saw there a very great light and all the fiery hosts of great archangels, and incorporeal powers and lordships, and principalities, and powers; cherubim and seraphim, thrones and the watehfulness of many eyes. There were ten troops, a station of brightness, and I was

[¶1] 2 And those men took hold of me and brought me into their midst afraid, and trembled with a great terror. and said to me: ‘Be of good cheer, Enoch, be not afraid.’

[¶2] 3 And they showed me the Lord from afar sitting on His lofty throne. And all the heavenly hosts having approached stood on the ten steps, according to their rank: and made xxviii, where the arrangement of obeisance to the Lord.

[¶3] 4 And so they proceeded to their places in joy aud mirth, and in boundless light singing songs with low and gentle voices, and gloriously serving Him ?.