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The Book of Enoch · 64 of 109
1.And other forms I saw hidden in that place.
2.I heard the voice of the angel saying: ‘These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.’
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Why does the angel call those figures 'angels who descended' and accuse them of revealing secrets?
The angel identifies the figures as “the angels who descended to the earth” because the chapter shows them as heavenly beings who left their proper realm and gave humans forbidden knowledge; the text links that revelation directly to human corruption by saying they “revealed what was hidden to the children of men.” This places their crime as twofold: a boundary-crossing descent and the transmission of hidden things.
By naming the act—“revealed what was hidden”—the chapter treats knowledge as morally charged: it isn’t mere information but a transgression that “seduced the children of men into committing sin.” This mirrors themes in Genesis and echoes John Milton’s Paradise Lost, where fallen beings corrupt humanity through illicit disclosure and temptation.
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