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

Sect. V] Chapter CIV. 2-11 261
from their violence ; for ye shall become companions of the
hosts of heaven. 7. And, although ye sinners say : "
All our
sins shall not be searched out and written down/' nevertheless
they shall write down all your sins every day. 8. And now
I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see
all your sins. 9. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie
not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with
lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of
your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue
not in righteousness but in great sin. 10. And now I know
this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of
righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and
lie, and practise great deceits, and write books concerning their
words. 11. But when they write down truthfully all my
the angels in heaven, 104*. The idea
ia further developed in 2 Bar. ; the
righteous will be transformed into the
glory of the angels, 51*, and he made
like unto them, 51^°, and their surpass-
ing splendour will exceed that of the
angels, 51'^. This, too, is the teaching of
the Talmud. Be not (a). /3 ' and be
not '. Hosts. So reading hara. Cf.
Luke 2''' Kev. 19'*. gmqt read herana
= tSiv ayaBSiv, which Plemming takes
to be a corruption of rffii' A77€\cu>'. This
is possible. 7-8. After showing the
blessed destiny of the righteous in the
future life, he turns finally to the
wicked, and declares that, though they
prosper and are strong, and for that
reason conceive that no account is taken
of their sin, nevertheless all their sins
are recorded, and recorded daily.
7. All our sins shall not be searched
out. Here I read jethaSaS with n. So
Beer emended in 1900 without a know-
ledge of n. Other MSS. read ' ye shall
not search out (tShSsgsll) all our sins
—which is clearly corrupt, t, give
' all our sins ' in the nom. giffmq in the
ace. Written down (t,P). g 'they
sliall write ', tuu ' ye shall write ', i