2nd Book of Enoch
CHAP. VII
Of how Enoch was taken on to the
second heaven.
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, await-
ing the great and boundless judge-
ment, and these angels 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 in-
cessantly 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? who knoweth
whither I go, or what will befall me?
or who will pray for me?'