1 Enoch 21

XXI-XXXVI. The Second Journey of Enoch. XXI. Preliminary and final Place of Punishment of the fallen Angels (stars).

1And I proceeded to where things were chaotic.*1-6. Cf. xviii. 12-16. The place where the disobedient stars are punished. 2And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. 4Then I said: ‘For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?’ 5Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? 6These are of the number of the stars ┌of heaven┐, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.’ 7And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture.*Apparently the final prison of the angels here is the abyss of xviii. 11, 12, which was below the waste place, where the seven stars are bound already. For this final prison, cf. x. 6, xviii. 11, liv. 6, xc. 24-5. 8Then I said: ‘How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!’ 9Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: ‘Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?’ And I answered: ‘Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.’ 10And he said ╓unto me╖: ‘This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.’