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

Sect, ii.] Chapters XL VI 5 — XL VIL 3. 131
of the Lord of Spirits have they denied. 8. And they will
be driven forth from the houses of His congregations and of
the faithful who cleave to the name of the Lord of Spirits.'
XLVII. 1. And in those days the prayer of the righteous
and the blood of the righteous will have ascended from the
earth before the Lord of Spirits. %. In those days will the
holy ones who dwell above in the heavens unite with one voice
and supplicate and intercede and laud and give thanks and
bless the name of the Lord of Spirits on account of the blood
of the righteous which has been shed, and the prayer of the
righteous that it may not be in vain before the Lord of
Spirits, that judgment may be done unto them, and that they
may not have to suffer for ever. 3. And in those days I
saw the Head of Days when He had seated Himself on the
throne of His glory, and the books of the living were opened
unrighteousness, and their power, &c.' The Lord of Spirits
have they denied. So G. FHLINO and Din. read The
name of the Lord of Spirits have they denied.' 8. Will be
driven forth from the houses of His congregations. GM
read $»(\£;&\ h'Qf'T ' The houses of His congregations will drive
forth.' Cleave to the name : see xxxviii. 2 (note).
faith is in the gods which they righteous one will arise from sleep
have made . . . and the name of the and wisdom . . . will be given unto
Lord of Spirits have they denied. them. ' Above all, in the next verse,
This is a strong expression for the where the phrase occurs again, we
idolatrous tendencies of the Sadducean find ' the blood of the righteous ones.'
court. For a discussion of the verse, The first of the Maccabees to shed the
see xxxviii. 5 (note). 8. Cf. liii. 6. blood of the righteous was Alex.
XLVII. 1. On the dethronement Jannaeus, 95 B.C. See xxxviii. 5 (note),
and destruction of the mighty follows 2. On the intercession of the angels
a description of the judgment. The see xv. 2 (note). The prayer of the
blood of the righteous. ' The righteous : cf. Rev. vi. 10 for exactly
righteous ' is here a collective in the the same Judaistic sentiment. See
singular, though, in the preceding xcvii. 5 (note). 3. Books of the
phrase, ' the prayer of the righteous,' living. The idea underlying this
it is in the plural. Some have thought phrase is to be traced to the O.T.
the singular side by side with the There the book of life (or its equiva-
plural must be significant here,—in lents, Exod. xxxii. 32 sq. 'God's
fact a Christian allusion: but this is book'; Ps. lxix. 28 'book of the liv-
not so; the same juxtaposition of cases ing') was a register of the citizens of
is found in xlvii. 4 ; xci. 10 * the the Theocratic community. To have
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