1 Enoch 17

XVII-XXXVI. Enoch’s Journeys through the Earth and Sheol. XVII-XIX. The First Journey.

1And they took ┌and brought┐ me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire, and, when they wished, they appeared as men.*XVII-XIX. These chapters are foreign to the rest of this section. They are full of Greek elements, e.g. Pyriphlegethon, Styx, Acheron and Cocytus (xvii. 5,6); the Ocean Stream (xvii. 5, 7, 8; xviii. 10); Hades in the West (xvii. 6). Again xviii. 6-9 is a duplicate account of xxiv. 1-3; xviii. 12-16 of xxi. 1-6; and xviii. 11 of xxi. 7-10. Again xix. I contradicts x. 11-14; xiv. 5. How could the imprisoned angels (xv. 12-xvi) assume many forms and seduce men to sacrifice to the demons? Still these chapters do belong to the Enoch tradition. 2And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.*'of whirlwind' E. 3And I saw the places of the luminaries ┌and the treasuries of the stars┐ and of the thunder ┌and┐ in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, ╓and a fiery sword╖ and all the lightnings.*with which the lightnings are shot. Cf Ps. vii. 12; Hab. iii. 9; Lam. ii. 4, iii. 12.*i.e. lightnings. Ps. xviii. 14, lxxvii. 17, 18. 4And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun.*See xxiii. (notes). This fire is not Gehenna as Enoch does not place that in the west. 5And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west.*The Pyriphlegethon. 6I saw the great rivers and came to the great ┌river and to the great┐ darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. 7I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow. 8I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.