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

Sect. Y] Chapters 0. 7— CI. 1 251
10. And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire
as to your deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon
and from the stars in reference to your sins because upon the
earth ye execute judgement on the righteous. 11. And He
will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and
dew and rain ; for they shall all be withheld because of you
from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your
sins. 13. And now give presents to the rain that it be not
withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it
has received gold and silver from you that it may descend.
13. When the hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness, and
all the snow-storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in
those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
Exhortation to the Fear of God : all JSIature fears Him but not
the Sinners.
CI. 1. Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every
work of the Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in
ness ', 2 ' which are the work of your
godlessness ', /3 ' which as a wcrk ye
have godlessly committed'. In blaz-
ing flames burning worse than fire
shall ye burn. Here a-^g ' > shall
' ye burn ', and ^g, P > burning '. The
two texts appear to be complemen-
tary. 10. AU the heavenly powers
which have witnessed the sins of the
wicked will testify against them ; cf.
98«-8; also 97' lOi'. In Hab.
2^1 this testimony is given by the
stones and beams of the dwelling of
the wicked. In heaven, g
' from
heaven '. + ' and ' a-u. Execute
judgement on = noietre Kpiaiv ihto.
(so gmqt, 0)—a Hebraism. 11. All
the natural powers which minister to
the fruitfulneSB of the earth will testify
against sinners, as they have been
withholden on account of their sins.
This is exactly in keeping with 80,
on« of the chapters interpolated in
72-82; cf. Jer. 3'. And they
shall be mindful {a-ml). mt,
• and shall they not be mindful ' («, /3
' watchful '). 12. Spoken ironi-
cally. That it may descend (ffigf,
hilofocy lUih). mq 'that it should not
descend'. > u, 0-hilo2}xy ^a J). 13.
Even the lesser punishments of the
elements are irresistible.
CI. 1. The same subject pursued;
but the writer turns aside for a moment
to address the righteous who are here
called 'children of heaven', as else-
where sinners are called 'children of
earth'; cf. lOC^ 102=. The phrase
'children of heaven' (cf. Pirke Aboth,
iii. 22 D\pisb C^S) is the equivalent of
' sons of God '. The designation is here
limited to the righteous Israelites. For
the view that the individual Israelite
was regarded as a son of God already
in the second century B. C. see Test. Lev.
4^ (note) Wisd. 2". ". Ye children