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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: 40 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/40/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 40. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/40/"
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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.

## 40. Chapter 39

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/40/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/40/#p-N

### The mournful Admonition of Enoch to his Sons, with Weeping and great Sorrow, speaking to them

[¶1] 1 Listen, my children, what things are according to the will of the Lord. I am sent to-day to you to tell you from the lips of the Lord, what was and what is happening now, and what will be before the day of judgement.

[¶2] 2 Hear, my children, for I do not speak to you to-day from my lips, but from the lips of the Lord who has sent me to you. For you hear the words of my lips, a mortal man like yourselves

[¶3] 3 I have seen the face of the Lord as it were iron that is heated in the fire, and when brought out sends forth sparks and burns.

[¶4] 4 Look at the eyes of me, a man laden with a sign for you. T have seen the eyes of the Lord shining like a ray of the sun and striking with terror human eyes.

[¶5] 5 You, my children, see the right hand of a man made like yourselves assisting you. I have seen the right hand of the Lord assisting me, and filling the heavens.

[¶6] 6 You see the compass of my actions, like to your own. I have seen the measureless and harmonious form of the Lord. To Him there is no end.

[¶7] 7 You therefore hear the words of my lips, but I have heard the words of the Lord, like great thunder, with continual agitation of the clouds.

[¶8] 8 And now, my children, listen to the discourses of your earthly father. It is terrible and awful to stand before the face of an earthly princee— terrible and very awful because the will of the prince is death and the will of the prince is life; how much more is it terrible and awful to stand before the face of the Lord of lords, and of the earthly 15 and the heavenly hosts. Who can endure this never-ending terror ?