2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 85

XXVII. ! And I ordered that they should take from the light and the darkness and I said: ‘ Let it be thick and covered with light,’ Sok. ; B om. 2 So A Sok., but that A adds with light after out. B reads And having clothed (spread out ?) certain things with light, I made broad and stretched out the path of the waters above the darkness. B OMITS THE REST OF THE CHAPTER. 3 Be thou day, Sok. * A adds as title of XX VIIT, Sunday. On it God showed to Enoch all His wisdom and power: during all the seven days how He created the powers of the heaven and earth and all moving things and at last man. XXVIII. © A and Sok. agree in this chapter. B is fragmentary and trans- posed, and reads: (2) And I made the great stones firm, (1) and ordered not pretend to understand what An exact rendering of Gen. i. το. follows. 3. Seven stars: see 3. This may be Sheol, or Tartarus SEK. 5. 4. Gen. i. 4, 5. (ef. xxix. 5), or it may be the abysses MV, 1. Gens a: Ὁ: 2. of the waters: cf. Gen. vii. 11; viii. I called the dry substance earth. 2; Eth. En. lxxxix. 7, 8; Jubilees ii. Chapters XXVIT. 2—XXIX. 3. 35 the sea: ‘Lo! I give thee an eternal portion and thou shalt So I made fast the 5. This I called the first day of the creation. Then it was evening, and again not move from thy established position.’ firmament and fixed it above the water. morning, and it was the second day |. XXIX.' 2. a nature like that of fire, and My eye gazed on the very firm And from the brightness of My eye the 2. And fire is in the water and water in the fire, and neither is the one And for all the heavenly hosts I fashioned ? and hard stone. lightning received its wonderful nature. quenched, nor the other dried up. On this account lightning is brighter than the sun, and soft water is stronger than hard stone °. 3. And from the stone I cut the miglity fire. * And from the fire I made the ranks of the spiritual hosts, ten thcusand angels*, *and their weapons are fiery, and