# Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch, Slavonic Enoch) 7:2

**Not Scripture.** Read [Why](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/2-enoch#research-notice) and [the Issues With This Book](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/2-enoch#issues-with-this-book).

And these angels were gloomy in appearance, more than the darkness of the earth, And they unceasingly wept every hour, and I said to the men who were with me: ‘Why are these men continually tortured?’

Not received as Scripture by the Jewish canon or by the major Christian churches, apart from local exceptions such as the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, which includes 1 Enoch and Jubilees. This is not the Apocrypha.

- Edition: morfill-1896
- Source: https://archive.org/details/bookofsecretsofe00morf
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