Aggada -- Translations into English; Bible. Old Testament -- Legends; Jewish legends; Midrash -- Translations into English
Before Enoch could be admitted to service near the Divine throne, the
gates of wisdom were opened unto him, and the gates of understanding,
and of discernment, of life, peace, and the Shekinah, of strength and
power, of might, loveliness, and grace, of humility and fear of sin.
Equipped by God with extraordinary wisdom, sagacity, judgment,
knowledge, learning, compassionateness, love, kindness, grace,
humility, strength, power, might, splendor, beauty, shapeliness, and
all other excellent qualities, beyond the endowment of any of the
celestial beings, Enoch received, besides, many thousand blessings from
God, and his height and his breadth became equal to the height and the
breadth of the world, and thirty-six wings were attached to his body,
to the right and to the left, each as large as the world, and three
hundred and sixty-five thousand eyes were bestowed upon him, each
brilliant as the sun. A magnificent throne was erected for him beside
the gates of the seventh celestial palace, and a herald proclaimed
throughout the heavens concerning him, who was henceforth to be called
Metatron in the celestial regions: "I have appointed My servant
Metatron as prince and chief over all the princes in My realm, with the
exception only of the eight august and exalted princes that bear My
name. Whatever angel has a request to prefer to Me, shall appear before
Metatron, and what he will command at My bidding, ye must observe and
do, for the prince of wisdom and the prince of understanding are at his
service, and they will reveal unto him the sciences of the celestials
and the terrestrials, the knowledge of the present order of the world
and the knowledge of the future order of the world. Furthermore, I have
made him the guardian of the treasures of the palaces in the heaven
'Arabot, and of the treasures of life that are in the highest heaven."
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