1 I COMMANDED in the very lowest parts, that visible things should come down from invisible, and Adoil came down very great, and I beheld him, and lo! he had a belly of great light. (2EN) 2 And I said to him: 'Become undone, Adoil, and let the visible come out of thee.' (2EN)
2 Enoch 25:1–2
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