2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 52

quently referred to in Latin literature. Test. Levi 3 ai δυνάμεις... of ταχθέντες εἰς ἡμέραν κρίσεως, ποιῆσαι ἐκδίκησιν These angels of punishment are placed in the third heaven as in our text. Cf. Apoe. Petri 6 of κολάζοντες ἄγγελοι: ἐν τοῖς πνεύμασι τῆς πλανῆς. The words angels terrible and without pity, carrying savage weapons seem to have been before the Test. Abraham A, xii ἄγγελοι. .. 8 ἄγγελοι βασανισταί. writer οἵ ἀνηλεεῖς τῇ γνώμῃ καὶ ἀπότομοι τῷ Chapters X, 5. ΧΙ αὶ II Enoch, is prepared for * those who do not honour God; who commit evil deeds on earth, vitium sodomiticum, witcheraft 1, enchantments, devilish 7? magic ; and who boast of their evil ? deeds, * stealing, lying, calumnies, envy, evil thoughts, forni- cation, and murder *. 5. Who steal® the souls of wretched ” men ἢ, oppressing’® * the poor and spoiling them of their posses- sions”, and themselves grow rich * by the taking of other men’s possessions®, * injuring them’. Who when they might feed the hungry, allow them to die of famine; who when they might clothe them, strip them naked. 6. Who do not know their Creator and have worshipped * gods without life ; who can neither see nor hear, being ὁ vain gods, * and have fashioned the forms of idols, and bow down to a contemptible thing, made with hands?; for all these this place is prepared for an eternal inheritance. [ἢ Here they took Enoch to the fourth Heaven, where is the Course of the Sun and Moon®.| XI. 1. And the men took me and conducted me to the fourth heaven, and showed me all * the comings ἃ πα ὃ goings forth and all the rays of the light of the sun and moon. 1 The impure who have done godlessness on the earth, who practise, ‘B: 2 Bom. ° B adds secretly. * B adds who bind them with a galling yoke. 5 Who see, A; Bom. δ And in order to acquire the goods of strangers, A. 7 Oppress them, A; Bom. XI. * Entry of Enoch into the fourth Heaven, B. ° A om.