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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: 23 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/23/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 23. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/23/"
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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.

## 23. Chapter 22

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/23/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/23/#p-N

### How the Angels placed Enoch there at the limits of the seventh Heaven, and departed from him invisibly

[¶1] 1 They leave not nor depart day or night standing before the face of the Lord, working His will’, cherubim and seraphim, standing round His throne. And the six-winged creatures overshadow all His throne, singing with a soft voice before the face of the Lord: ‘Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth heaven and earth are full of Thy glory !’

[¶2] 2 When I had seen all these things, these men said unto me: ‘Enoch, up to this time we have been ordered to accompany thee.’ And those men departed from me, and I saw them no more. And I remained alone at the extremity of the heaven‘, and was afraid, and fell on my face, and said within myself: ‘Woe is me what has come upon me!.’

[¶3] 3 And the Lord sent one of His glorious archangels, Gabriel, and he said to me: ‘Be of good cheer, Enoch, be not afraid, stand up, come with me, and stand up before the face of the Lord for ever.

[¶4] 4 And I answered him, and said: ‘Oh! Lord, my spirit has departed from me with fear and trembling ! call to me the men who have brought me to this place: upon them I have relied, and with them I would go before the face of the Lord.’

[¶5] 5 And Gabriel hurried me away like a leaf carried off by the wind, and he took me and set me before the face of the Lord”. XXII.. I fell down and worshipped the Lord.. And the Lord spake with His lips to me: ‘Be of good cheer, Michael the Archangel led Enoch into the tenth heaven before the face of the Lord.