2 Enoch Chapter 7: Historical English Edition
The Slavonic Book · Historical English source edition
Chapter Text — Historical English Edition
1 And those men took me and led me up on to the second heaven, and showed me darkness, greater than earthly darkness, and there I saw prisoners hanging, watched, awaiting the great and boundless judgment, and these angels (spirits) were dark-looking, more than earthly darkness, and incessantly making weeping through all hours.
2 And I said to the men who were with me: Wherefore are these incessantly tortured? They answered me: These are God’s apostates, who obeyed not God’s commands, but took counsel with their own will, and turned away with their prince, who also (is) fastened on the fifth heaven.
3 And I felt great pity for them, and they saluted me, and said to me: Man of God, pray for us to the Lord; and I answered to them: Who am I, a mortal man, that I should pray for angels (spirits)? Who knows whither I go, or what will befall me? Or who will pray for me?
About This Source Edition
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, in The Forgotten Books of Eden (1926), edited by Rutherford H. Platt Jr.; Wikisource transcription. This 68-chapter edition does not include the Melchizedek continuation found in some other editions.