The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 53
Enoch warns his children against claiming he prays for their sins, for no sinner has any helper there.
1nd now, my children, do not say: Our father is standing before God, and is praying for our sins, for there is there no helper of any man who has sinned.
2 You see how I wrote all works of every man, before his creation, (all) that is done amongst all men for all time, and none can tell or relate my handwriting, because the Lord see all imaginings of man, how they are vain, where they lie in the treasure-houses of the heart.
3 And now, my children, mark well all the words of your father, that I tell you, lest you regret, saying: Why did our father not tell us?
Did You Know?
Enoch warns his children against claiming he prays for their sins, for no sinner has any helper there.
Before each person's creation Enoch wrote every work that man would do amongst all men for all time.
None can tell or relate Enoch's handwriting of human deeds across all time and every generation.
The Lord sees all vain imaginings of man that lie stored in the treasure-houses of the heart.
Enoch urges his children to mark his words well lest they regret asking why he never told them.
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Commentary
In brief
Enoch warns his children not to claim he prays for their sins, since no helper aids any sinner. He has written every man's works before creation, which none can relate because God sees all vain imaginings stored in the heart, and he urges them to heed his words lest they regret.