the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

Sect. l] Chapters XXIV. 2~XXV. 6 53
' I wish to know about everything, but especially about this tree'
3. And he answered saying :
' This high mountain ""which thou
hast seen"", whose summit is like the throne of God, is His throne,
where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal
King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with
goodness. 4. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is per-
mitted to touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take
vengeance on all and bring (everything) to its consummation for
ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. 5. Its
fruit shall toe for food to the elect : it shall be transplanted to
the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.
6. Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad.
+ ' Enoch ' a-q, against G^, q.
Saying (E). > G«. 3. On this
mountain see note on 18'. This
mountain is the middle one of the
seven in IS""" 24^-'. "Which thou
hast seen (E). >Ge. The Holy
Great One . . . Glory (E). ' G^ the
great Lord, the Holy One of Glory '-
Holy Great One : see 1' (note).
Lord of Glory ; cf. 22i< (25'') 27'. » 36«
40' 63^ 83^ Eternal King ; ef. vv.
5,7; 27'; only found in 1-36. When
He shall come down, &o. This moun-
tain, as we have seen in IS' note, is in
the NW. In 77^ it is said that God
will descend in the south. 4. Then
(G^). E = TiiSe corrupt for T0T6, Holy
(G8 oaiots. E = '
humble ;
' cf. 108').
4, 5. This tree is the tree of life. By
the eating of this tree after the final
judgement men are endowed with long
life—not eternal life; cf. 5' 10" 25".
Cf. 2 Bar. 73'. '. "• ' 74. The writer of
1-36 has not risen to the conception
of an eternal life of blessedness for the
righteous, and so has not advanced
a single step beyond the conceptions
found in Is. 65 66. This materialistic
conception of the tree of life based on
Gen. 2' 3'^, and here published afresh,
gained afterwards a wide currency in
Jewish and Christian literature though
mainly with k, symbolical meaning
cf. Eev. 2' 222. u 4 ^^^a. 8»2. 5. Its
fruit ... to the elect. G^ reads
6 tcapn&s aiiTov toTs kftKcKTOis \ eh ^oii)v f
els Popav. The writer had before him
Ezek. 47" b'2i»:h VIS Vr\-\. eh CwljV
= f^^'n?, which I take to be corrupt
for Nin!? = erjTcu. Thus the original
possibly ran ii)rh ^''THa^ n32«1
?3'D?. E is here very corrupt = en rod
Kap-rrov avTOv SoBrjcreTat Tots efcKe/CTOis
(ani, Kai (k 0oppSv. Transplanted to
(G^ /jieTa(pvTev6rj(reTai ev). The j^erS.
reflects probably a separate verb in the
original. The tree of life, which, ac-
eoi'ding to the Massoretic Text, stood
along with the tree of knowledge in
the earthly Garden of Eden was,
according to our text, removed to the
Garden of Righteousness in the NW.,
whence it was subsequently to be
transplanted to the holy place. The
holy place, i. a. Jerusalem. We can-
not tell whether the author intended
here the New Jerusalem which, accord-
ing to 9C, was to be set up by
God Himself It is, at all events, a
Jerusalem cleansed from all impurity,
and that is probably all that the
author meant. 6. In this verse
I have followed G^. E differs only in
;