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

Sect. Il] Glmpter XLVIIL 6-10 95
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of
the holy
;
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the
righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.
10. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the
earth,
And before them they shall fall and not rise again
And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and
raise them
:
For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
note. As straw in the fir«. Exod. 15'
Is.5'*Obadiahl8Mal.4'. Before the
face of the holy {gqlu). ' before , .
righteous '- The reference here is to
Gehenna; cf. 27''> ' 902«. " ; but in tlie
Parables Gehenna undergoes trans-
formation, In 27=. = 90'^'=. " the suffer-
ings of the wicked form an ever-present
spectacle to the righteous. Cf. 4 Ezra
'7^ 'Apparebit lacus tormenti, et contra
ilium erit looua requietionis : clibanua
gehennae ostendetur, et contra eum
iocunditatis paradisus '. But in the
Parables, where heaven and earth are
transformed on the advent of the
Messiah, this spectacle is only a tem-
porary one, and Gehenna and its
victims vanish for ever from the
eight of the righteous, 48" 62". ".
Cf. Kev. 20^*. As lead in water.
Exod. 15". Before the face of the
righteous (a). ' before . . . holy '.
10. Best. Cf. 53'. And ( > j) be-
fore them (o). ' and before him ',
Fall and not rise again : cf. ver. 4
for the opposite ; cf, also Ps. 36^''.
The Lord . , . and His Anointed :
cf. Ps. 2K The term 'Messiah* or
' Anointed One ' was applicable to any
one specially commissioned by God to
.
a religious or Theocratic function ;
hence to David and his successors, and
even to a Gentile prince—Cyrus (Is.
45^) ; to the Jewish high-priest—' the
anointed priest', Lev. 4'> ^> ^^ &''' ; to
the Servant of Jehovah, Is. 61^. In
the Psalms the title generally refers to
the reigning Icing or to the Davidio
king as such, yet its ideal aspect is
never lost sight of. When the histori-
cal kingship came to an end, the idea
still remained, and was kept prominent
through the liturgical use of the Psalms.
Its imperfect realization in the kings
of the past made Israel look forward to
the true Messianic king in whom it
should be perfectly embodied. But
the term is never used technically in
this sense in the 0. T. In this techni-
cal sense it is first found in the Parables,
48'° 52*, and a decade or so later in
Pss. Sol.
17S« 18«. '. For its latur
occurrences see 4 Ezi'a 7^° 12'^ 2 Bar.
29' 301 397 401 709 72«, and N.T.
passim. See Cheyne, Origin of tlie
Psalter, 338-339 ; Art. on the Messiah,
Encyc. Bib. iii. 3057 sqq. On the
question generally cf. Schiirer, Die, ii,
.vol. ii. 120-187.
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