The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

96 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. L
And such a division has been made for the souls of those
who complain and make known their destruction when they
were slain in the days of the sinners. 13. Thus it has
been made for the souls of men who were not righteous
but sinners, complete in their crimes : they will be with
criminals like themselves ; but their souls will not be slain
on the day of judgment nor will they be raised from thence/
14. Then I blessed the Lord of glory and said :
f Blessed be
my Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever/
XXIII. 1. From thence I went to another place towards
the west, unto the ends of the earth. 2. And I saw a
burning fire which ran without resting and paused not from
its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3. And I
on ix. 10. 14. The Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for
ever. So G M. Din. and FHLNO give ' The Lord of glory and
righteousness who ruleth all things for evermore/
XXIII. 2. And paused not. So Din. and FHKLMNO and
the Giz. Gk. G omits.
incur a less penalty in Sheol. 12.
Such a division has been made.
This is the reading of the Giz. Gk.
and has good parallels in verses 9, 10.
See Appendix. The Ethiopic MSS.
insert against the Greek the words
• if it was before eternity.' But
this addition is meaningless, and
must be corrupt. Complain, &c.
These sinners demand vengeance on
those that did violence to them
in life, just as the righteous in
the first division demanded justice
against those that had destroyed
them. In the days of the sin-
ners : probably the times of Antiochus
Epiphanus. 13. Their souls will
not be slain. There are degrees of
suffering in Sheol. The worst penalty
appears to be f the slaying of the soul,'
but even this did not imply annihila-
tion. See cviii. 3 (note); also xcix.
11. Nor will they be raised. The
sinners in the third division will rise
in order to be delivered over to a
severer condemnation. The resurrec-
tion here implied is of Israel only :
so the entire section i-xxxvi would lead
us to infer. Otherwise this declaration
of a General Resurrection is solitary
and unique in pre-Christian Jewish
Apocrypha. 14. After each fresh
revelation Enoch generally bursts
forth into a doxology. Cf. xxv. 7
xxvii. 5 ; xxxvi. 4; xxxix. 9-12 ; xlviii.
10; lxxxi. 3 ; lxxxiii. 11 ; lxxxiv; xc.
40.
These doxologies have as a rule
a close connexion in thought with
their respective contents. Lord of
glory : see xxv. 3 (note). Lord of
righteousness : cf. xc. 40 ; cvi. 3.
XXIII. 1, 2. Enoch still remains
in the West, but proceeds to another
quarter of the West where there is
a restless river of fire. xvii. 4 ap-
pears to deal with the same subject.