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

Sect. II] Chapters LVI. Q—LVIII. 3 111
T/ie Tieturnfrom the Dispersion.
LVII. 1. And it came to pass after this that I saw another
host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on "the
winds from the east, and from the west to the south. 2. And
the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took
place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of
the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof
was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day.
3. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits.
And this is the end of the second Parable.
LVIII—LXXI. The Third Parable.
LVIII. The Blessedness of the Saints.
LVIII. 1. And I began to speak the third Parable concerning
the righteous and elect.
3. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect.
For glorious shall be your lot.
3. And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun.
And the elect in the light of eternal life
LVII. On the destruction of the part of it has been lost, being dis-
Gentile invaders, the dispersed of placed to make room for the Noachic
Israel return to Jerusalem from the fragments. As it stands it embraces
East and from the West ; cf. Is. 271^ 58 61-64 6928-25. xhe introductory
43^ 8 4912, 22, 23_ 1 .And men words, ' Concerning the righteous and
(a). 5 ' men '. Coming on the the elect,' in this Parable, as in the
winds. A figure expressing the swift- other two, are but a very indifferent in-
dex to its contents. The Parable as it
ness of their return. Pei-haps for ' on '
we should read ' like ', the mistake has reached us, might reasonably be de-
having arisen from a corruption of 3 scribed as
:
' Concerning the final judge-
into 3 in the Hebrew. From the ment held by the Son of Man over all
west. 2 reads ' to the west '. 2. created beings, but especially over the
The noise ... was heard (32, ;S). mtu great ones of the earth and the final
' there was the noise '. The pillaxs blessedness of the righteous and
of the earth were moved : cf. Hag. elect '. 2. Glorious shall be
28> ' Joel 3'*. One end of heaven your lot. This lot is preserved for
to the other (a-g). /3 reads ' the end them by the Messiah, 48'. 3.
of the earth to the end of the heaven'. Light of the sun : see 38^ (note).
LVIII.' Here begins the third Eternal life : see 37* (note) : cf.
Parable. It is probable that a large Dan. 12^ Pss. of Sol. 3". 4. They