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2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch) 24

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And the Lord summoned me, and said to me: Enoch, sit down on my left with Gabriel.

2And I bowed down to the Lord, and the Lord spoke to me: Enoch, beloved, all (that) you see, all things that are standing finished I tell to you even before the very beginning, all that I created from non-being, and visible (physical) things from invisible (spiritual).

3Hear, Enoch, and take in these my words, for not to My angels have I told my secret, and I have not told them their rise, nor my endless realm, nor have they understood my creating, which I tell you to-day.

4For before all things were visible (physical), I alone used to go about in the invisible (spiritual) things, like the sun from east to west, and from west to east.

5But even the sun has peace in itself, while I found no peace, because I was creating all things, and I conceived the thought of placing foundations, and of creating visible (physical) creation.

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About 2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch)

Known as Slavonic Enoch: the ascent through the seven heavens, what Enoch sees in each one and the account of creation he brings back to his sons. English text: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press), N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from W. R. Morfill, 1913 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press), N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from W. R. Morfill (1913) · public domain