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

230 The Book of Enoch [Sect. V
And deceit shall have sprung up
And in it there shall be the first end.
And in it a man shall be saved j
And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.
5. And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement^
And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness
for evermore.
6. And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,
And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be
made for them.
7. And after that in the fifth week, at its close.
The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.
106'' this growth of wickedness should
have been assigned to Jared's days,
when the fall of the angels took place.
This week includes the Deluge, and the
Covenant made with Noah : Gen. 8'^-
8". Tlie time order in the close
of this sentence is not observed. A
law shall be made (q, n). Since
gmu read ' law ' in the nom. 1 take it
that jiSgaber is in them corrupt for
jtitgabar— the reading of q, ii. Cf.
ver. 6. /,^-»read 'He will make a law'.
5. Abraham and his seed chosen as the
I'ace in and through which God would
reveal His righteous judgements— ' the
plant of righteous judgement' ; cf. ver.
2 ; 10" (note). His posterity. The
text reads ' after him (or ' it ') it shall
come (or 'become') the plant of
righteousness ', &c. But, since this is
unsatisfactory however we take it, I
suggest that ' ViriN ( = after him ' or
'it') stood before the translator but
was corrupt for in'''nnX = ' his pos-
terity'. 6. Visions of the holy
;
and righteous {inq, fi).
So u but that
it omits 'and righteous', ff reads
' visions of the holy and righteousness ',
f ' holy and righteous visions '. The
divine manifestations in favour of Israel
in Egypt. A law, &c. The law
given on Sinai. This law is of eternal
obligation ; cf. 99^^. An enclosure.
Dillmann thinks tliis refers to the
Tabernacle and the hedging in of the
national life by the law. It seems
rather to refer to the occupation
of Palestine; cf. Sg''. 7. The
house. The Temple will, according
to this author, stand 'for ever', though
one form of it may give place to
another. If this Apocalypse of Weeks
was originally an integral partof 91-104
this ' for ever ' means only an inde-
finitely long time ; for though there is
an eternal law, there appears to be no
Temple after the final j udgement, and
the risen righteous enjoy a purely
spiritual existence like the angels, as
in the Book of Jubilees, and possibly