The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 10
Two men led Enoch up onto the Northern side and showed him a very terrible place of all manner of tortures.
1nd those two men led me up on to the Northern side, and showed me there a very terrible place, and (there were) all manner of tortures in that place: cruel darkness and unillumined gloom, and there is no light there, but murky fire constantly flaming aloft, and (there is) a fiery river coming forth, and that whole place is everywhere fire, and everywhere (there is) frost and ice, thirst and shivering, while the bonds are very cruel, and the angels (spirits) fearful and merciless, bearing angry weapons, merciless torture, and I said:
2 Woe, woe, how very terrible is this place.
3 And those men said to me: This place, O Enoch, is prepared for those who dishonour God, who on earth practice sin against nature, which is child-corruption after the sodomitic fashion, magic-making, enchantments and devilish witchcrafts, and who boast of their wicked deeds, stealing, lies, calumnies, envy, rancour, fornication, murder, and who, accursed, steal the souls of men, who, seeing the poor take away their goods and themselves wax rich, injuring them for other men's goods; who being able to satisfy the empty, made the hungering to die; being able to clothe, stripped the naked; and who knew not their creator, and bowed to the soulless (and lifeless) gods, who cannot see nor hear, vain gods, (who also) built hewn images and bow down to unclean handiwork, for all these is prepared this place among these, for eternal inheritance.
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Two men led Enoch up onto the Northern side and showed him a very terrible place of all manner of tortures.
There is no light there but murky fire constantly flaming aloft and a fiery river coming forth.
That whole place is everywhere fire and everywhere frost and ice, thirst and shivering under very cruel bonds.
Fearful and merciless angels bearing angry weapons inflict merciless torture in that place of unillumined gloom.
This place is prepared as eternal inheritance for those who made the hungering die though able to satisfy the empty.
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Two men lead Enoch to the northern side and show him a terrible place of darkness, murky fire, frost, ice, thirst and merciless angels with cruel weapons. They explain it is prepared for those who dishonour God by sins against nature, magic, theft, lies, harming the poor and worshipping idols.