"O my lord, with my whole heart will I call upon God." And Adam said to me: "Take great care of thyself. Except thou seest me and all my tokens, depart not out of the water, nor trust in the words, which are said to thee, lest thou fall again into the snare." And Adam came to Jordan and he entered into the water and he plunged himself altogether into the flood, even to the hairs of his head, while he made supplication to God and sent up prayers to Him.

And there, the angels came together and all living creatures, wild and tame, and all birds that fly, and they surrounded Adam, like a wall, praying to God for Adam.

The devil came to me, wearing the form and brightness of an angel, and shedding big tear-drops, and said to me: "Come out of the water, Eve; God hath heard thy prayers and heard us angels. God hath fulfilled the prayers of those who intercede on thy behalf. God hath sent me to thee, that thou mayst come out of the water."

But I perceived that he was the devil and answered him nothing. But Adam, when he returned from Jordan, saw the devil's footprints, and feared lest perchance he had deceived me; but when he had remarked me standing in the water he was overcome with joy and he took me and led me out of the water.

"Be silent,

Then Adam cried out with a loud voice: Eve, for already is my spirit straitened in my body; arise, go forth, utter prayers to God, till I deliver up my spirit to God."

[From here the book parallels the Apocalypse of Moses, chapter xxxii, and is like it almost to the end.]

THE BOOKS OF ENOCH AND NOAH

"And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen."

THE BOOK OF ENOCH.

'Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men, and found no dwelling-place."

"I know a mystery,

-THE BOOK OF ENOCH.

And have read the heavenly tablets,

And have seen the holy books."

-THE BOOK OF ENOCH.

THE BOOKS OF ENOCH AND NOAH

(INTRODUCTION)

HE Book of Enoch is the most renowned, the longest,

and certainly in some parts the most poetically elevated, of the Old Testament apocrypha. It exists for us to-day only in an Ethiopian version. But this is quite obviously translated from a Jewish work which must have been composed about a century before the Christian era. This Jewish work, moreover, was obviously compiled from still earlier books. In places these are joined so carelessly that they do not fit together at all, and it is thus easy to pick out sections which belong to at least two of the preceding books. These were a book of the Parables of Enoch, and a remarkable and ancient Book of Noah.

Enoch was the first of the great Genesis figures to follow Adam. He was the "friend of God," the man raised to immortality without going through the gates of death. Hence he was naturally selected by later ages as the authority to see visions and to make prophecies. There is another apocryphal book, called the "Secrets of Enoch," which touched upon the medieval "Kabbalah" and magic. Our present book also implies repeatedly that Enoch had a knowledge of many mighty secrets, of powers too dangerous to be revealed. Hence this book is an example of the apocrypha in that earliest Hebraic sense, where the word meant teaching not to be entrusted to the general world.

Dr. Charles, our chief recent authority upon this book, says in referring to it: "It is seldom that authors attain to the immortality which they hope for, and it is still more seldom that anonymous authors achieve to this distinction. And yet it is just such a distinction that the authors of the Book of Enoch have achieved. That such should be ultimately his lot was the deep-rooted conviction of one of this