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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: 8 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/8/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 8. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/8/"
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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.

## 8. Chapter 7

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/8/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/8/#p-N

### How Enoch was taken into the second Heaven

[¶1] 1 And the men took me and brought me to the. And the appearance of it 9 May be rendered flowers. second heaven, and showed me the darkness, and there I saw the prisoners suspended

[¶2] 3 reserved for (and) awaiting the eternal judgement.. And these angels were gloomy they unceasingly wept every hour’, and I said to the men in appearance, more than the darkness of the earth, who were with me: ‘Why are these men continually tortured ?’. And the men answered me: ‘These are they who apostatized from the Lord’: who obeyed not the commandments of God, and took counsel of their own will and transgressed together with their prince and have been already confined to the second heaven, great pity for them.

[¶3] 4 And I felt And lo the angels 3 made obeisance to me, and said to me: “O man of God pray for us to the Lord,” said unto.

[¶4] 5 And I answered" them: ‘Who am I, a mortal Great and immeasurable, A; judgement: our text xylil.

[¶5] 7 for empire are prisoners in the second find forgiveness.’ man, that I should pray for angels? Who knows whither I go, or what awaits me: or who prays for me!?”? [Of the taking of Enoch to the third Heaven ".}