2 And I measured their goings and compared their light, and saw that the sun

2 And I measured their goings and compared their light, and saw that the sun's light is greater than the moon's 3 Its circle and the wheels on which it goes always, like a wind going past with very marvellous speed, and day and night it has no rest [note: Cf "Rapid Transit"] 4 Its passage and return are accompanied by four great stars, and each star has under it a thousand stars, to the right of the sun's wheel, and by four to the left, each having under it a thousand stars, altogether eight thousand, issuing with the sun continually 5 And by day fifteen myriads of angels attend it, and by night a thousand 6 And six-winged ones issue with the angels before the sun's wheel into the fiery flames, and a hundred angels kindle the sun and set it alight.AND I looked and saw other flying elements of the sun, whose names are Phoenixes and Chalkydri, marvellous and wonderful, with feet and tails in the form of a lion, and a crocodile's head, their appearance is empurpled, like the rainbow; their size is nine hundred measures, their wings are like those of angels, each has twelve, and they attend and accompany the sun, bearing heat and dew, as it is ordered them from God 2 Thus the sun revolves and goes, and rises under the heaven, and its course goes under the earth with the light of its rays incessantly.