LXVI. 1. And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are
prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are
beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all
who [abide and] dwell on the earth. 2. And the Lord of Spirits gave
commandment to the angels who were going forth, that they should not
cause =the waters= to rise but should hold them in check; for those
angels were over the powers of the waters. 3. And I went away from the
presence of Enoch.
LXVII. _God’s Promise to Noah: Places of Punishment of the Angels and of
the Kings._
LXVII. 1. And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said
unto me: ‘Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a
lot of love and uprightness. 2. And now the angels are making a wooden
(building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand
upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of
life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain
without inhabitant. 3. And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever
and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall
not =be unfruitful= on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed
and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.’
4. And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in
that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me
in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft
metal and tin. 5. And I saw that valley in which there was a great
convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. 6. And when all this took
place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in
that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected
with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray
(mankind) burned beneath that land. 7. And through its valleys proceed
streams of fire, where these angels are punished who had led astray
those who dwell upon the earth.
8. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the
mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the
healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their
spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for
they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and
yet believe not in His name. 9. And in proportion as the burning of
their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in
their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none
shall utter an idle word. 10. For the judgement shall come upon them,
because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of
the Lord. 11. And those same waters shall undergo a change in those
days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these
water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels
ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold. 12. And
I heard Michael answering and saying: ‘This judgement wherewith the
angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who
possess the earth.’ 13. Because these waters of judgement minister to
the healing of the body of the =kings= and the lust of their body;
therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will
change and become a fire which burns for ever.