The gates of life and peace, the gates of strength and power.
2The gates of splendor and light, the gates of praise.
3When the angels of heaven heard this, they were terrified.
4For a mortal son had been exalted above the holy angels.
Apocrypha · Chapter 17 of 48
3 Enoch 17
Hebrew
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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.