The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 56
Mathosalam asked his father Enoch what was agreeable to his eyes that he might make before his face.
1athosalam having answered his father Enoch, said: What is agreeable to your eyes, father, that I may make before your face, that you may bless our dwellings, and your sons, and that your people may be made glorious through you, and then (that) you may depart thus, as the Lord said?
2 Enoch answered to his son Mathosalam (and) said: Hear, child, from the time when the Lord anointed me with the ointment of his glory, (there has been no) food in me, and my soul remembers not earthly enjoyment, neither do I want anything earthly.
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Mathosalam asked his father Enoch what was agreeable to his eyes that he might make before his face.
Mathosalam sought Enoch's blessing on their dwellings, sons, and people to make them glorious through him.
Enoch said that since the Lord anointed him with the ointment of his glory, there has been no food in him.
After the anointing, Enoch's soul remembers not earthly enjoyment and he wants nothing earthly.
Enoch told Mathosalam to hear how the ointment of glory ended his need for any earthly things.
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Commentary
In brief
Mathosalam asks Enoch what to prepare so Enoch may bless their dwellings and sons and make the people glorious before departing as the Lord said. Enoch answers that since anointed with the ointment of his glory he has had no food, remembers no earthly enjoyment, and wants nothing earthly.