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

Sect. Il] Chapter.'^ XLV. H—XLVI. 1 85
And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal
blessing and light,
5. And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6. For I have provided and satisfied with peaceMy righteous ones
And have caused them to dwell before Me
But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
T/ie Head of Bays and the Son of Man.
XLVI. 1. And there I saw One who had a head of daysj
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose countenance had
the appearance of a man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy
angels.
One {mt, 0-eii). gqii, cy^ ' Mine elect
ones '. 4, 5. After the judgement the
Messianic kingdom is established and its
scene will be a transformed heaven, 45*
51* ; and earth, 41" 45' ; its members
will be angels, 39* (note), and men ;
and the Elect One will abide amongst
them. This idea of the transformation
of the world was derived directly from
Is. 65^' and 66*'*, and probably origin-
ally from Zoroastrianism : see Cheyne's
Origin of the I'salier, 404, 405. It is
found elsewhere in Enoch in 7'V- 91^''.
In Isaiah this idea is only adopted
eclectioally ;
for it is incompatible with
other facts in the context, i.e. 65, &c.
but in Enoch it is accepted in its entire
signiGcance as logically involving the
immortal blessedness of man ; cf. 2 Bar.
328 572 i Ezra 7'^ 6. Destroy
them from the face of the earth,
bf. 69".
XLVI. 1. In this and the following
chapters Daniel 7 has been laid under
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contribution, and from it have been
drawn directly the expressions ' Head
of Days ', and ' Son of Man '- The
former means in Daniel the Everlast-
ing, and seems to do so here likewise
r'gsa mawa'81 = ' the sum of days '.
Hence the first line = ' And there I
saw the Everlasting '. It is of course
awkward that the word ' head ' occurs
in the next line in a literal sense. Tlie
phrase ' Head of Days ' is found in
Enoch in 46" 47' 48", and has been
carried over into the Interpolations,
55* 60*. The original writer uses this
expression of Daniel with much appro-
priateness in connexion with the super-
natural Son of Man and the question
of final judgement ; in fact the two ex-
pressions are correlative : observe the
question, ' Why he went with the Head
of Days !
' but this technical appro-
priateness is wanting in the Interpola-
tions. Another being . , . like one
of the holy angels : cf. 1 Sam. 29"
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