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

246 Tlie Book of Enoch [Sect. V
and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and
all Idnds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner
of help from them.
8. And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their
hearts,
And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their
hearts
And throuffh visions in their dreams.
9. Through these they shall become godless and fearful ;
For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie.
And shall have worshipped a stone
Therefore in an instant shall they perish.
10. But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words
of wisdom, and understand them,
And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the
path of His righteousness.
And become not godless with the godless
For they shall be saved.
11. Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For you shall be slain in Sheol.
Eev. 9. I have added ' and stone ' in bad to worse; of. Book of Wisdom
accordance with TertuUian as quoted 14'^> *' Rom. 1^^. Shall become
below. Impure (3, TertuUian
:
;
' in- godless ; of. 93' 99'. On the re-
famibus')- " 'evil'. Corruption is lation of dreams to superstition, cf.
native to the Ethiopic. Demons : Sir. 31'"'. 9. Through these,
cf. 16' 19'. Not according to i. e. dreams, Sir. 40". 10. As
knowledge: rjqt fjgrt), Tert. 'non se- sudden destruction will befall the idocundum
scientiam '. 'in idols' latere, ver. 9, so salvation will be the
temples
'. The passage in TertuUian, recompense of those who accept the
i)«WoZ. iv, runs 'Qui servitis lapidibus, true wisdom. Of His righteous-
et qui imagines facitis aureas et argen- ness (a-ii). «, 5
' of righteousness '.
teas et ligneas et lapideas et fictiles, et 11. Shall be slain: cf. 108'. This
servitis phantasmatibus et daemoniis et is the extreme penalty of sin : a less
spiritibus infamibus [MSS. give in- severe punishment is eternal condemna-
famis] et omnibus erroribus non se- tion to Sheol, but that not attended by
cundum scientiam, nullum ab iis in- the 'slaying' of the soul; cf. 22''.
venietia auxilium ; cf. Book of Jubilees '
Sheol here means the eternal place of
1" il''. 8. The victims of such super- punishment; see 63'° (note) 103'.
stition and idolatry will proceed from 12. Prov. 11' Amos &^ Hos. 12'.