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

Sectv] Chapters XCVII. S—XGVIII. 2 241
9. And now let us do what we purposed :
For we have gathered silver,
9'^ And many are the husbandmen in our houseSj
9° And our granaries are (brim)£ull as with water."
10. Yea and like water your lies shall flow away ;
For your riches shall not abide
But speedily ascend from you j
For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,
And ye shall be given over to a great curse.
Self-indulgence of Sinners: Sin originated by Man: all Siu
recorded in Heaven ; Woes for the Sinners.
XCVIII. 1. And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the
foolish,
For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.
2. For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,
And coloured garments more than a virgin :
In royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And in silver and in gold and in purple.
And in splendour and iu food they shall be poured out as
water.
when retranslated into Hebrew, rhyme (m). a-u, • riches with you '. Riolies
as they do in Lamentations 5^ "•'' ' We shall . . . speedily asoend : of. Prov.
have become rich with riches ', &c. = 23''. All (gmt, 0-n). > igqu, n.
lyjp ^31 li'lB'JJ ntJ'y XCVIII. This chapter introduces a
fijsh division in 91-101 This division,
mk-^^ ••"= ^^' .
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ya-102°, consists mainly of a denuncia-
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9- "??'C!f nmy\ tion of the sinners, of their errors in
1JSDX flDN flDO ''S
9^. i:^na naX n^nni
''^® ^^^ doctrine, and announces their
coming judgement I. I swear unto
you. ihis formula occurs here for the
9". 13n\'1S D*03 DW»1 firsttimebutrecursfrequently;cf. VV.4,
9. And many {gig, ib). 6; 99", &c. To the wise and to the
'many'- As with water d^). Other foolish. The foolish are addressed in
MSS. 'and as with water'. 10. 98-102='; the wise in 102*-104. To
This verse is a rejoinder to the boast- the foolish («iu, /3). ffiffqt 'not to the
ing of the sinners. The writer takes up foolish '. 2. Shall be poured out
the last words and gives them a different as water. Phrase from Ps. 22^*.
turn. Your lies : i.e. the false things Their personality giving itself wholly
in which you trust. Your riches to such external possessions will at last
1370 B.