Apocrypha · Chapter 14 of 48
Hebrew
Rabbi Ishmael said: I asked Metatron: Why are you called by the name of your Creator?
2Who has seventy names, and you are greater than all the princes and more exalted than all the angels?
3And he answered me: Because I am Enoch, son of Jared.
4When the generation of the flood sinned, and corrupted their deeds, the Holy One, blessed be He, elevated me from the earth to serve as a witness against them.
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About 3 Enoch
A text of Jewish mysticism in which Enoch is transformed into the angel Metatron and describes the heavenly court from the inside. The basis of the chariot (Merkabah) literature.