5. Where I beheld the operation of a great fire blazing and glittering,
in the midst of which there was a division. Columns of fire struggled
together to the end of the abyss, and deep was their descent. But
neither its measurement nor magnitude was I able to discover; neither
could I perceive its origin. Then I exclaimed, How terrible is this
place, and how difficult to explore!
6. Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said:
Enoch, why art thou alarmed and amazed at this terrific place, at the
sight of this _place of_ suffering? This, he said, is the prison of the
angels; and here they are kept for ever.