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

Sect. V] Chapters XCir. 11—XGVI. I 237
That ye may execute judgement upon them according to
your desires.
4. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be
reversed :
Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your
sins.
5. Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil
For ye shall be requited according to your works;,
6. Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish.
7. Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous
For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of
injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
Grounds of Hopefulness for the Righteous : Woesfor the Wicked.
XCVI. 1. Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the
sinners perish before you,
And ye shall have lordship over them according to your
desires.
these were victories over Saddueean 12^'. Eequited according to your
influences. Ttiough the Macoabean works : cf. 100' Judg. 1'. 6.
princes are now Sadducees themselves, 'Weigh out injustice, i. e. are unjust
the period of the Sword, the time of the judges, but the expression is strange.
vengeance of the righteous, is coming. 7. Ye shall be delivered up (gr).
4. Magical practices and incantations Other MSS. 'j'e shall deliver up',
are here referred to. Which cannot And persecuted ia-tjt, 0-a). gt, a 'and
(' can '
gq) be reversed {ginq). t, /3 ye shall persecute '. Its yoke I
' which you cannot reverse'. Cf. 8' on t, ' ^ their yoke '.
the reversing of incantation. 5. XCVI. The righteous exhorted to
Bequite . . . with evil. For like ex- hope in the coming Messianic kingdom,
pressions cf. Prov. 17^* ' reward evil and fresh woes denounced against the
for good ', 20^^ ' Say not, I will recom- sinners. 1, Lordship : cf. 91'^
pense evil' jn-nD^N, 212» Rom. (note) 95=. ' 98", 2, This verse
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