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

Sect. II] Chapters XL. &—XLI. 2 79
words I have heard and written down ? ' 9. And he said to
me :
' This first is Michaelj the merciful and long-suffering ; and
the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of
the children of men, is Raphael : and the third, who is set over
all the powers, is Gabriel : and the fourth, who is set over the
repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named
Phanuel/ 10. And these are the four angels of the Lord of
Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.
XLI. 1. And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens,
and how the kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men
are weighed in the balance. 2. And there I saw the mansions
of the elect and the mansions of the holy, and mine eyes saw
there all the sinners being driven from thence which deny the
name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off : and they
could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from
the Lord of Spirits.
9. Michael (a). /3 ' the holy Michael ',
Gabriel (a). 'the holy Gabriel".
Bepentanoa unto hope {a-q, dghMno
moy), q ' repentance unto repentance ',
' repentance and hope '. Our
ahcex
text — T^s /teracoias fh iKm^a. Cf.
Acts 11^^ fifTCLfotav CIS ^ai^v 2 Cor, 7^*^
liiTovoiav CIS (7(UTT]piav, Is named
(o). P ' is'. 10. Lord of Spirits
(a), e ' the Most High God '.
XLI. 1. The kingdom is divided.
What ' the kingdom ' means here is
doubtful. Dillmann takes it to mean
the Messianic kingdom ;
Schodde, the
kingdom of this world. Can it refer
to the division of heaven into seven
parts ? The actions of men are
weighed: cf. 61'. The idea is derived
from the 0. T., where Job (31^) prays
to be weighed in an even balance, and
the spirits of men are weighed by God,
Prov, 162 212 2412, and the wicked are
found wanting, Ps. 62^ Dan. £" Pss.
Sol. 5«. In Enoch, as in the 0. T., this
idea is not incompatible with the
doctrine of divine grace; but in the
Talmud it is absolutely materialized,
and man's salvation depends on a literal
preponderance of his good deeds over
his bad ones : see Weber, Jiid. T/ieol.
279-284. This weighing of man's deeds
goes on daily (idem 283). But as the
results of such judgements were neces-
sarily unknown, there could not fail to
be much uneasiness, and to allay this
the doctrine of Abraham's meritorious
righteousness was in due time de-
veloped, in virtue of which all natural
descendants of Abraham through Jacob
became entitled to salvation (Weber,
292-297), This doctrine, though as
yet unknown in Enoch, was a popular
belief in N,T. times; cf. Matt, 3^
2. Andi''(2). >o-2i8. The sinners
being driven from thenoe :
see 38'.
Deny the name of the Lord of
Spirits: see 38^, 3-8. These
veises are, it is obvious, alien in spirit
and position to the context ; they be-
long in character and detail to 43'i
44 59 69"-'^' i see 43. They may,
however, belong to the Parables, since
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