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Chapter 15
1 And He answered
and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous
2 man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. And go,
say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You
should intercede" for men, and not men
3 for you: Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain
with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves
wives, and done like the children
4 of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye were holy, spiritual,
living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women,
and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of
men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die
5 and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate
them, and beget
6 children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. But
you were formerly
7 spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the
world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual
ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.
8 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be
called evil spirits upon
9 the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded
from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers
is their beginning and primal origin;
10 they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.
[As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for
the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall
be their dwelling.]
11 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle,
and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but
nevertheless
12 hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against
the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from
them.
Chapter 16
1 From the days
of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of
whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring
judgement -thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great
judgement in which the age shall be
2 consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated."
And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had
been aforetime in heaven, say to them:
3 "You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed
to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts
you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men
work much evil on earth."
4 Say to them therefore: " You have no peace."'
Chapter 17
1 And they took
and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire,
2 and, when they wished, they appeared as men. And they brought me to the place
of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.
3 And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and
of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were
4 a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings.
And they took
5 me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every
setting of the sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like
water and discharges itself into the great sea towards
6 the west. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great
darkness, and went
7 to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of
winter and the place
8 whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers
of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
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