The fourteen evergreen trees that retain their foliage through winter. The detail is the kind of natural-historical specificity the Enochic writer enjoys, and it has a theological point: even what looks dead in winter is keeping faith with its appointed pattern. The argument running through chapters 2 through 5 is being built brick by brick — the heavenly bodies obey, the trees obey, the seasons obey, and only humans break rank. The same observational instinct is what later Christian writers will draw on in their natural-theology arguments, Augustine on the order of creation in City of God XI, and Aquinas’s fifth way.