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

Sect, L] Chapter XXIV. 6 — XXVI. 2. 99
till the great day of judgment, when He shall avenge and
bring everything to its consummation for ever; this tree, I say,
will (then) be given to the righteous and humble. 5. By
its fruit life will be given to the elect : it will be transplanted
to the north, to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the
Eternal King. 6. Then will they rejoice with joy and be
glad: they will enter the holy habitation : the fragrance thereof
will be in their limbs, and they will live a long life on earth,
such as thy fathers have lived : and in their days no sorrow or
pain or trouble or calamity will affect them/ 7. Then
blessed I the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, because that
He hath prepared such (recompense) for the righteous, and
hath created it and promised to give it to them.
XXVI. 1. And I went from thence to the middle of the earth,
and I saw a blessed and fruitful place, and there were branches
there which had taken root and grew o#it of a dismembered
tree. 2. And then I saw a holy mountain, and underneath
werden.' 6. Will enter the holy habitation. So G :
ahft-fi
fr&fti c'I'h&C, but defectively, omitting J&fla*k which later MSS.
corrupted into ^(la^fr. Cf. the Giz. Gk. els to dyiov claeXevo-ovTai.
For W*H G reads q0C.
XXYI. 1. G omits Xi^Ofl : but F H L M 1ST O support Din.
appear. 4. Great day of judgment: 20. 7. For the doxology, cf.
seexlv. 2 (note). Avenge and bring xxii. 14.
everything to its consummation : XXVI. Enoch visits Jerusalem and
Bee Crit. Note. Kighteous : see i. its vicinity. 1. The middle of
8 (note). Humble: cf. cviii. 7. 5. the earth. The writer regards Jeru-
Elect : see i. 3 (note). To the holy salem as the centre of the earth : cf.
place, i.e. Jerusalem. We cannot tell Ezek. xxxviii. 12 ; v. 5. In the Book
whether the author intended here the of Jubilees, viii, it is called the navel
New Jerusalem, which according to or b/x(pak6s of the earth, just as
lxxxix. 28, 29 was to be set up by Delphi was regarded amongst the
God Himself. It is, at all events, Greeks. In En. xc. 26 Gehenna is in
a Jerusalem cleansed from all im- the middle of the earth. Blessed
purity, and that is probably all and fruitful place : cf. xxvii. 1 ;
that the author meant. 6. The lxxxix. 40; Dan. xi. 16, 41,45. A
holy habitation : see Crit. Note. dismembered tree, i. e. Israel. The
The fragrance thereof, i. e. of the branches are the righteous descendants
tree of life. Cf. xxiv. 4. No sor- who are to participate in the Mesrow
or pain, &c. : cf. Is. lxv. 19, sianic kingdom. 2. Aholymoun-
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