The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 11
In the fourth heaven the sun's light was measured as greater than the moon's after comparing their rays and goings.
1hose men took me, and led me up on to the fourth heaven, and showed me all the successive goings, and all the rays of the light of sun and moon.
2 And I measure their goings, and compared their light, and saw that the sun's light is greater than the moon's.
3 Its circle and the wheels on which it goes always, like the wind going past with very marvellous speed, and day and night it has no rest.
4 Its passage and return (are accompanied by) four great stars, (and) each star has under it a thousand stars, to the right of the sun's wheel, (and by) four to the left, each having under it a thousand stars, altogether eight thousand, issuing with the sun continually.
5 And by day fifteen myriads of angels attend it, and by night A thousand.
6 And six-winged ones issue with the angels before the sun's wheel into the fiery flames, and a hundred angels kindle the sun and set it alight.
Did You Know?
In the fourth heaven the sun's light was measured as greater than the moon's after comparing their rays and goings.
The sun races on wheels like the wind with marvellous speed and finds no rest by day or night.
Four great stars to the right of the sun's wheel and four to the left each command a thousand stars, totaling eight thousand.
Fifteen myriads of angels attend the sun by day while only a thousand angels attend it through the night.
Six-winged ones issue with angels before the sun's wheel into fiery flames as a hundred angels kindle and set it alight.
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In brief
Enoch is taken to the fourth heaven and shown the paths and lights of the sun and moon. He notes the sun's superior brightness, its restless high-speed wheels escorted by eight thousand stars, and the angels who attend and kindle it.