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

Sect. II] Chapters XXXVII. b—XXXVIIL 4 71
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who
dwell on the earthy
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners.
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the
Lord of Spirits ?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.
3, When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the
sinners judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous
and elect,
4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer
be powerful and exalted
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy.
For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear
^ 'I'Vxfi avTwv. Perhaps K?T\ or flpn
stood in the original. Light shall
appear. Cf. Is. 9^ 60^ Denied the
Lord of Spirits. For ' denied ' q
reads ' outraged '. This charge is fre-
quently brought against the sinners
' :
it is in fact ' the very head and front of
their offending '. Cf. iV 45" 46' 4&"
63'. Cf. St. Jude 4. They deny like-
wise the heavenly world, 45' ; the
Messiah, 48"; the spirit of God, 6710;
tlie righteous judgement, 60°. The
righteous on the other hand believe in
the name of the Lord, 43''. Observe
that this phrase is taken over into the
Interpolations, 67'i '". It had been
good for them, &o. A familiar Jewish
expression = 17 n\T ataiD WajikraE.26
(quoted by Edereheim, Life . . . of Jesus
the Messiah, ii. 120). Cf. 2 Ear. lO"
4 Ezra 4" 2 Enoch 41^ St. Matt. 26^*.
3. 'When the seoreta of the righteous
shall be revealed. The blessings in
store for the righteous, the heritage of
faith, are still hidden, 58'; but they
will one day be revealed. The Messiah
himself is hidden with the Lord of
Spirits, 62'. Cf. Mark 4". And the
sinners (q). Other MSS. om. ' and
:
and make this clause the apodosis
'the sinners shall be judged'- But
the parallelism supports q, and we
have seen, where the Greek is pre-
served, that q is not infrequently right
when standing alone. 4. The
supremacy and oppression of the earth's
rulers and great ones are speedily
drawing to a close. Tliis is the constant
theme of the Parables, 46*"'
488-i» 535 621-12 63, and has been
taken over into the Interpolations,
67*-"; and this is one of the leading
characteristics which distinguish 37-69
from 91-104. "With the rulers of the
earth as such the latter Section has
pract'cally no concern. Trom that
time. The MSS. prefix 'and' which
I take to be the word introducing the
apodosis. Has oaused His light to
appear. I have emended tar'Sja =
' is seen ' into 'ar'aja = ' has caused
to appear'. This emendation is re-
quired by the fact that 'the Lord of
Spirits ' is in the nom. in a, d, and ' His
light ' in the ace. in q, P-d reads ' the
light of the Lord of Spirits is seen '.
This light is at once spiritual and
physical : the nearness of God's presence