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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: 27 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/27/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 27. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/27/"
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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.

## 27. Chapter 26

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/27/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/27/#p-N

### God tells Enoch how out of the lowest Darkness, there comes Jorth the visible and the invisible

[¶1] 1 ‘And I commanded in the depths that visible And out came Adoil very great”, and I gazed upon him. And lo his colour wasred, of great brightness.

[¶2] 2 And I said unto him: “Burst asunder, Adoil

[¶3] 4 and let that which comes from thee be. And he burst asunder, and there came forth a great light, and I was in the midst of a great light, and as the light came forth from the light, there came forth the great world, revealing all the creation, which I had pur-. And I made for Myself a throne, and sat upon it, and I said to the light: things should come out of invisible. visible.” posed to make, and I saw that it was good. forth who had in his belly a great stone, B. 6 T was in the midst of light, and the light thus appear- “Go forth on high and be established above My throne ?, and be the foundation for things on high.’

[¶4] 5 And there was nothing higher than the light, and as I reclined, I saw it from My throne.