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228 Tlie Booh of Enoch [Sect. V
18. And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
The paths of righteousness and the paths of violence.
Yea, I will show them to you again
That ye may know what will come to pass.
19. And now, hearken unto me, my sons.
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness
shall perish for ever.'
XCIII, XCI. 12-17. T/ie Apocalypse of Weeks.
XCIII. 1. And after that Enoch both f gavef and began to
recount from the books. 3. And Enoch said
reference to the Sword from ver. 12 (see
p. 232). 18. Will show (m, /3). gqt
' have shown '. > «. 10. Hearken
unto me (2'«). 'hearken'. > g.
And^°. > g. Paths of righteous-
ness . . . paths of violence. This
theme is pressed home with great
emphasis in 94^"^ where we find the
' paths of righteousness '
' 94\ paths of
peace ' 94*, ' paths of unrighteousness '
94', 'patlis of violence and of death '94',
' paths of wickedness ' and ' paths of
death ' 94'. This is one of the earliest
' Two
non-canonical references to the
Ways'. See T. Ash. 1'. ^ (note in
my edition) 2 Enoch SO'^ (note). Cf.
Deut. 3015, 16 jer. 218 pg ^e.
XCIII. 1-10, In these verses we
have an account of the great events
of the world during the first seven
weeks of its history. These seven
belong to the past, the three last
weeks described in 91'^"^'^ belong
to the future. As this Apocalypse
of Weeks comes from a different au-
thor and date to the Dream-visions,
83 90, we are relieved of the
task of harmonizing them, on whirh
many ci-itics have laboured and to no
purpose. We are not to regard the
;
:
ten weeks as being definite and equal
periods of 700 years each, as Wieseler,
Hoffmann, and others have done ;
for,
not to press the fact that this reckon-
ing would place the book after Christ,
the facts recorded as occurring in the
individual weeks would not fall within
the limits assigned them by this theory.
Dillmann's scheme of seventy genera-
tions of varying length, seven genera-
tions to each week, is still more un-
satisfactory. In the first five weel(s
seven actual generations are taken for
each week ; but in the sixth and seventh
weeks fourteen or more generations
are compressed into the needful seven.
Rather we are to regard the ten weeks
as periods of varying length, each one
of which is marked, especially towards
its close, by some great event—the first
by the birth of Enoch ; the second by
the corruption of primitive man and
the Flood; the third by the call of
Abraham ; the fourth by the revelation
of the law and the occupation of Pales-
line ; the fifth by the building of the
Temple ; the sixth by the apostasy of
Israel and the destruction of the
Temple; the seventh by the publica-
tion of Enoch's writings. In the eighth