《《The book of Enoch》（以诺书）》狱蛇

22、Section VII

　　CHAP. 40.—
　　1. And after that I saw a thousand times thousand, and ten thousand times ten thousand beings, an innumerable and immense multitude, who stood before the glory of the Lord of the spirits.

　　2. I looked, and on the four sides of the Lord of the spirits I saw four faces, different from those standing, and I learned their names, which the angel who came with me announced as their names to me, and showed me all the secrets.

　　3. And I heard the voices of those four faces as they blessed before the Lord of glory.

　　4. The first voice blessed the Lord of the spirits to all eternity.

　　5. And I heard the second voice praising the Chosen One and the chosen ones, who hang on the Lord of the spirits.

　　6. And I heard the third voice asking and praying for those who dwell on the earth, and petitioning in the name of the Lord of the spirits.

　　7. And I heard the fourth voice keeping off the satans, and not allowing them to come before the Lord of the spirits to accuse those who dwell on the earth.

　　8. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me all things that were hidden, and said to him: “Who are these four faces that I see, and whose voices I hear and have written them down”

　　9. And he said to me: “The first is the holy Michael, merciful, slow to anger; and the second, who is over all sicknesses and over all the wounds of the children of men, is Rufael; and the third, who is over all the powers, is the holy Gabriel; and the fourth, who is over penitence and the hope of those who inherit everlasting life, if Fanuel.”

　　10. And these are the four angels of God, the Most High, and the four voices I heard in those days.

　　CHAP. 41.—
　　1. And after this I saw all the secrets of heaven, and the kingdom as it is divided, and how the deeds of men are weighed upon scales.

　　2. There I saw the dwellings of the chosen, and the dwellings of the holy, and my eyes saw there how all the sinners were cast from there, they who had denied the name of the Lord of the spirits, and they are dragged away, and there is no rest for them because of the punishments which proceed from the Lord of the spirits.

　　3. And there my eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and of the dew, and there I saw also from what place they proceed, and from whence they satisfy the dust of the earth.

　　4. And there I saw the closed repositories, and from them the winds are divided out, and the repository of hail and the repository of fog and of the clouds; and his cloud hovers over the earth from the beginning of the world.

　　5. And I saw the repositories of the sun and of the moon, from whence they come and to which they return, and their glorious return, and how one is more glorious than the other, and their fixed course, and how they do not leave their course, and how they add nothing to their course and take nothing from it, and preserve their fidelity one with the other, remaining steadfast in their oath.

　　6. And first the sun goes out, and makes his way according to the command of the Lord of the spirits, and strong is his name to all eternity;

　　7. and after this the hidden and the revealed course of the moon, completing the course of her way in that place by day and by night, one looking at the other [i.e. opposite each other] before the Lord of the spirits; and they give thanks and praise and do not rest, for their thanksgiving is rest for them.

　　8. For the shining sun makes many changes for a blessing and for a curse, and the course of the path of the moon is light to the just, and darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord who created a separation between light and darkness, and divided the spirits of men, and strengthened the spirits of the just, in the name of his own justice.

　　9 For neither does an angel hinder, nor is any power able to hinder, for the Judge sees them all, and judges them all before him.

　　CHAP. 42.—
　　1. Wisdom did not find a place where she might live, and a dwelling-place was given to her in the heavens.

　　2. Wisdom came to dwell among the children of men, and found no dwelling-place; wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among the angels.

　　3. And injustice came forth from its repository; whom it did not seek, them it found, and dwelt with them, like the rain in the desert, and like dew in the thirsty land.

　　CHAP. 43.—
　　1. And again I saw lightning, and the stars of heaven, and I saw how he called them all by their names, and they heard him.

　　2. And I saw that they were weighed on the scales of justice, according to their light, according to the width of their places, and the day of their appearance, and their course; one flash of lightning produces another, and their course according to the number of angels, and their fidelity they preserved among themselves.

　　3.And I asked the angel, who went with me, who showed me what was secret: “What are these”

　　4. And he said to me: “The Lord of the spirits has showed thee a picture of them: these are the names of the just, who dwell on the earth and believe on the name of the Lord of the spirits to all eternity.”

　　CHAP. 44.—
　　1. Also other things I saw in reference to the flashes of lightning; how they arise from the stars, and become lightning, and can leave nothing behind with them.