# 3 Enoch (Hebrew Enoch) 20

**Not Scripture.** Read [Why](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#research-notice) and [the Issues With This Book](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#issues-with-this-book).

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.

1. R. Ishmael said: Metatron, the angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me: Above these there is one great and mighty prince. His name is CHAYYLIEL H’, a noble and revered prince, a glorious and mighty prince, a great and revered prince, a prince before whom all the children of heaven do tremble, a prince who is able to swallow up the whole earth in one moment (at a mouthful),
2. And why is he called CHAYYLIEL H’? Because he is appointed over the Holy Chayyoth and smites the Chayyoth with lashes of fire: and glorifies them, when they give praise and glory and rejoicing and he causes them to make haste to say “Holy” and “Blessed be the Glory of H’ from his place!” (i.e. the Qĕdushsha).

- Edition: odeberg-1928
- Source: https://archive.org/details/3enochorhebrewbo00unse