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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: 53 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/53/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 53. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/53/"
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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.

## 53. Chapter 52

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/53/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/53/#p-N

[¶0] 1 Blessed is the man who opens his lips to praise the God of Sabaoth, and praises the Lord with his heart.

[¶1] 2 Cursed is every man who opens his lips to abuse and to calumniate his neighbour.

[¶2] 3 Blessed is he who opens his lips to the blessing and praise of God!

[¶3] 4 Cursed is he who opens his lips to swearing and blasphemy before the face of the Lord all his days.

[¶4] 5 Blessed is he who

[¶5] 6 Cursed is he who

[¶6] 7 Blessed is he

[¶7] 8 Cursed is he who looks to make use of another man’s labour. blesses all the works of the Lord. speaks ill of the works of the Lord. who looks to raise his own hand for labour,

[¶8] 9 Blessed is he who preserves the foundations of his

[¶9] 10 Cursed is he who

[¶10] 11 Blessed is he

[¶11] 12 Cursed is he who fathers from the beginning. breaks the enactments of his fathers. who establishes peace and love, troubles those who are at peace’.

[¶12] 13 Blessed is he who does not speak peace with his tongue, but in his heart there is peace to 4118!

[¶13] 14 Cursed is he who speaks peace with his tongue, but in his heart there is no peace’,

[¶14] 15 For all these things in measures and in books will be revealed in the day of the great judgement,