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

Sect. V] Chapter- XCI. 5-11 227
9. And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned.
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And they (i. e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement
of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement
for ever.
10. And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
[11. And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut
off, and the sinners shall be destroyed by the sword . . . shall be
cut off from the blasphemers in every place, and those who plan
violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the
sword.]
shall be destroyed (inlu, 0). > gri.
0. The absolute rejection of the heathen
seems to be taught here. This was a
prevailing though not the universal
belief of later Judaism ; see Weber,
Jild. Theol. 386. Idolatry is reprobated
in 99'-3. ">, as here. And 2° ( Other MSS. They shall be cast
into the judgement of fire. This repro-
bation of the heathen does not appear to
agree with the teaching of ver. 14 (see
p. 233), where the conversion of the
heathen is expected. That verse, how-
ever, belongs to the Apocalypse of
Weeks which has all the appearance of
an earlier fragment incorporated in his
work by the original author of 91-104.
10. The righteous. The singular used
collectively as in 92'. Their sleep
{gmq^, x). tu, 0-x ' sleep'. In 91-104
only the righteous attain to the
Resurrection ; see 51' (note) for full
discussion of the subject. Wisdom .
see
42i>2 (note). 11. As we
have already seen (p. 224), 91'''""
originally stood after 931"'°. As for
this verse, we must regard it as an
interpolation added by the final editor
in order to introduce vv. 12-17 which
he had torn from their original context.
This verse is wholly out of place here.
Judgement has already been consummated,
all evil works destroyed, and
all the wicked handed over to a
judgement of fire (vv. 7-9). In ver. 10
the Resurrection ensues and judgement
is now over. But in ver. 11 all this i.i
ignored and a moral chaos is represented
as still existing—a moral chaos of
exactly the same nature as existed
before the judgement of vv. 7-9. More-
over, the period of the Sword—man's
part in the final judgement— precedes
the Resurrection ; of. 90" 91". The
2
Resurrection follows upon the destruc-
tion of all evil and the final judgement,
100^' ^. Finally, this verse seems
modelled partly on vv. 7 and 8, and
partly on ver. 12, the expressions about
blasphemers being drawn from ver. 7,
the phrase 'roots of unrighteousness
shall be cut off' from ver. 8, and the