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

Sect. I.] Chapter XXVI. 3 — XXIX. 2. 101
is for those who are accursed for ever : here will all those be
gathered together who utter unseemly words with their lips
against God_, and speak hard things of His Glory; here will
they be gathered together, and here is the place of their pun-
ishment. 3. And in the last days there will be the spectacle
of a righteous judgment upon them, in the presence of the
righteous continually for ever : here will those who have
found mercy bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King.
4. And in the days of judgment over the former, they will
bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He has
assigned them (their lot)/ 5. At that time I also blessed
the Lord of Glory and spake to Him and remembered His
greatness, as was befitting.
XXVIII. 1. Then I went towards the east, into the midst
of the mountain range of the desert, and I saw here nothing
save a plain. 2. Nevertheless it was filled with trees of
this seed, and water streamed down from above over it. 3.
It was manifest that there were many watercourses which
flowed as well towards the north as to the west, and here
also as everywhere water and dew ascended.
XXIX. 1. And I went to another place, away from the desert,
drawing nigh to the east of the mountain range. 1. And
then I saw the trees of judgment, particularly such as give
XXVII. 3. Those who have found mercy. The text gives
en>UCPl = ' the merciful '; but the sense requires the meaning given
above. The text may be a corruption of SF > ' tfr&'} = those who have
found mercy.' The Giz. Gk. gives do-fpels, a corruption of evo-epels.
2. Utter unseemly words : see v. which separates this plain from Jeru-
4 (note). 3. Spectacle : cf. xlviii. salem. According to Ezek. xlvii. 8,
9; lxii. 12. "Who have found mercy: this desert should one day be well
see Crit. Note. Lord of glory : see watered and covered with trees.
xxv. 3. Eternal King : see xxv. 3 XXIX. 1. Enoch goes still further
(note). East and comes to the region of fra-
XXVIII. 1. Din. takes the plain grant trees. 2. Trees of judgment,
here referred to to be that of the i. e. trees which will be given to the
Jordan, and the mountain range of righteous after the judgment: cf. x.
the desert to be the rocky region 19; Is. lx. 6; Ps. lxxii. 10. So