Part 9

Apocrypha · Enoch

* 21 * ┌And all the children of men shall become righteous┐, and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. * 22 * And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever. * 1 * And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down ┌upon the earth┐ over the work and labour of the children of men. * 2 * And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.’ * XII-XVI. Dream-Vision of Enoch: his Intercession for Azâzêl and the fallen Angels: and his Announcement of their first and final Doom. * * 1 * Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. * 2 * And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones. * 3 * And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: * 4 * ‘Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, †declare† to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: * 5 * “Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as †they† delight themselves in †their† children, * 6 * The murder of †their† beloved ones shall †they† see, and over the destruction of †their† children shall †they† lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”’ * 1 * And Enoch went and said: ‘Azâzêl, thou shalt