2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 78

XXIII. 1. And he told me all the works of *the heaven and * the earth and the sea, * and their goings and comings °, -*the noise of the thunder; the sun and moon and the movement of the stars; their changings; the seasons and years; days and hours®; and’? goings of the winds; and the numbers of the angels; *the songs of the armed hosts ὃ. 2. And everything relating to man, and every language of their songs, and the lives of men, and the precepts ὃ and instructions, and sweet-voiced singings, and all which it is suitable to be instructed in. 3. * And Vretil instructed me thirty days and thirty nights, and his lips never ceased speaking; and I did not cease thirty days and thirty nights writing all the remarks1?°. 4. And Vretil 11 said to me: ** All the things which I have told thee, thou hast written down. Sit?? down and * write all about '? the souls 1 And take a reed for speedy writing and give it to Enoch, A Sok. 2 A om. 3 And show him the books wonderful and fragrant with myrrh from thy hand, A; Sok. agrees with text, save that he adds wonderful before books, and adds for speedy writing after reed. Sexe B om: 5 The movements of all the elements, B; A om. δ. The living things and the seasons of the year, and the course of his days and their changings, and the teaching of the commandments, B ; Sok. supports text, save that for movement of the stars he reads stars and their goings. After hours Sok. adds and the coming forth of the clouds. 7 B omits from and goings to end of ver. 2. 8 The fashion of their songs, A. ° Narratives, A. 10 A om.; Sok. supports text, but that for remarks he reads marks of every creature. After creature Sok. adds and when I had finished the thirty days and nights. um Pravuil; A; Vrevoil, Sok. So a'so in previous verse. 12 Lo! what things I have instructed thee in and what thou hast written: and now sit, Sok. 8 Write down all, Sok. XXIII. 1. This verse would not tial Physics in Eth. En, Ixxii-lxyxii. unsuitably describe the Book of Celes- Songs of the armed hosts: see xvii. 30 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. of men, those of them which are not born, and the places 5. For every soul was created