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

112 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. ll
The days of their life shall be unending.
And the days of the holy without number.
4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with
the Lord of Spirits
:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the
Eternal Lord.
5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the
heritage of faith :
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth.
And the darkness is past.
6. And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And to a limit (lit. ' number ') of days they shall not come,
Por the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the
Lord of Spirits.
The LigJds and the Thunder.
LIX. 1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the
lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they execute
(lit. ' their judgement ') : and
they lighten for a blessing or a
will through a, natural affinity seek never endeth. The MSS. read za'l
after light and righteousness ; of. jSthualaquS (gmqu) or za'i jSthuelaquS
38* (note). The Eternal Lord, or =' that cannot be numbered '. I have
' Lord of the ages '. See 81^° and note emended this into za'ljSthalaq = ' that
on 1'. In 12' we have ' the king of never endeth '. And the light
the ages 'or 'the Eternal King '. Cf. established. . . Spirits. Bracketed
82' 84^. 5. They will be bidden as a dittograph of the following line,
to seek and make their own the hidden LIX. This chapter is an intrusion,
recompense of righteousness (cf. 38'), and belongs to the same class as 41'~° 43
the glorious heritage which has been 44. It is probably drawn from a Noah-
ordained for them in heaven and pre- Apocalypse. 1. The statements
served for them by the Messiah, 48'. of the writer rest on Job 36'^ 37'> ^'
This will not be achieved once and for SB''''"^'. He wishes to bring out the
all ; but this will be a progress from ethical ends of the thunder and the
light to light and fi-om righteousness to lightning. In those days (a). /3
righteousness. Heritage of faith: ' and in those days '. Of the lights
cf. 39^ 61*1 ". Bright as the sun, (a, ev). /3-eu 'the lights'. For a
&c. . cf. 1 John 1°. 6. That blessing or a curse : cf. Job 36'i