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

Sect. II.] Chapters XL V. 3. — XL VI. 2. 127
that day I will cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them,
and I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal
blessing and light. 5* And I will transform the earth and
make it a blessing and cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon
it : but the sinners and evil-doers will not set foot thereon.
6. For I have seen and satisfied with peace My righteous ones,
and have caused them to dwell before Me :
but for the sinners
there is judgment impending with Me so that I may destroy
them from the face of the earth.
(^XLVL) 1 . And there I saw One who had a head of days,
and His head was white like wool, and with Him was another
being whose countenance had the appearance of a man and
his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2. And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me
all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he
Din. give: 'Holy and glorious name.' 4. Cause Mine Elect
One to dwell among them. G reads KidCl A^Khft : (H4sft?
RA? which is untranslateable. All other MSS. support the text.
XLVI. 2. The angel who went with me. The Ethiopic gives
li. ; 4 and earth xli. 2 ; xlv. 5 : its contribution, and from it have been
members will be angels, xxxix. 4 (note), drawn directly the expressions * Head
and men ; and the Elect One will of Days,' and ' Son of Man.' The
abide amongst them. This idea of former means in Daniel the Everlast-
the transformation of the world was ing. It is found in Enoch in xlvi. 2 ;
derived directly from Is. lxv. 17 and xlvii. 3; xlviii. 2, and has been carried
lxvi. 2, and probably originally from over into the Interpolations, lv. 1 ;
Zoroastrianism : see Cheyne's Origin lx. 2; lxxi. 10, 12, 13, 14. Theoriginal
of the Psalter, 404, 405. It is found writer uses this expression of Daniel
elsewhere in Enoch in lxxii. 1 ; xci. with much appropriateness in con-
16. In Isaiah this idea is only nexion with the supernatural Son of
adopted eclectically ; for it is incom- Man and the question of final judg-
patible with other facts in the context ment ; in fact the two expressions are
i.e. lxv. 20, &c. ; but in Enoch it is correlative: observe the question,
accepted in its entire significance as ' Why he went with the Head of
logically involving the immortal bless- Days ? ' but this technical appropri-
edness of man : cf. Apoc. Bar. xxxii. ateness is wanting in the Interpola-
6 ; lvii. 2 ; iv Ezra [vi. 49]. tions. Another being . . . like one
XLVI. 1. In this and the following of the holy angels : cf. I Sam. xxix.
chapters Daniel vii has been laid under 9 ; Acts vi. 15. 2. Son of Man.