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

182 The Book of Enoch [Sect. IV
ment. God will appear in person, and the earth open its mouth
and swallow them up, 90'8. The wicked shepherds will then be
judged and the fallen watchers, and cast into an abyss of fire,
go2o-25_ -^ith the condemnation of the Apostates to Gehenna the
great assize will close, 90^8. Then his New Jerusalem will be set
up by God Himself, 90^^' ^° ; and the surviying Gentiles will be
converted and serve Israel, 903°; and all the Jews dispersed abroad
will be gathered together, and all the righteous dead will be raised
to take part in the kingdom, 90^^- Then the Messiah will appear
amongst them, 90^'' ; and all the righteous will be gloriously trans-
formed after his likeness, 90^^ ; and God will rejoice over them.
87-90 were written by a Chasid in support of the Maccabean
movement.
LXXXIII—LXXXIV. First Dream-Fision on the Delvge.
LXXXIII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee
all my visions whioh I have seen, recounting them before thee.
2. Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite
unlike the other : the first when I was learning to write : the
second before I took thy mother, (when) I saw a terrible vision.
jVnd regarding them I prayed to the Lord. 3. 1 had laid me down
in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I saw in a vision
how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to the earth.
4. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was
swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on
mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were
rent from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.
5. And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up
LXXXIII. 1. My visions [a-t). admitted to higher privileges than in
^, (3 ' visions'. 2. Before I took mere visions. Yet if 83-90 came
a wife, i. e. before I was sixty-five ; of. from the same hand as the other
Gen. S'^' The name of this wife was Sections, the converse should have been
Edna, 85' ; of. Book of Jubilees 4'", the case on ascetic grounds, and Enoch
where these dream-visions are referred should have had his bodily translations
to. We should observe that 83-90 are to heaven and his intercourse with the
only dreams or dream-visions ; whereas angels during his unmarried years, and
in the other Sections of the book Enoch his dream-visions after he had taken
has open intercourse with the angels, a wife. 3. Mahalalel. In text
and is translated bodily and therein it is MalalV'l. 5. Lifted up (my