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

Sect. II.] Chapters LI. 2 — LII 2. 141
it to him and hath glorified him. 4. And in those days
will the mountains leap like rams and the hills will skip like
lambs satisfied with milk, and they will all become angels in
heaven. 5. Their faces will be lighted up with joy because
in those days the Elect One has appeared, and the earth will
rejoice and the righteous will dwell upon it, and the elect
will go to and fro upon it.
ML 1. And after those days, in that place where I had seen
all the visions of that which is hidden—for I had been carried
off in a whirlwind and borne towards the West— 2. There
mine eyes saw all the hidden things of heaven that shall be,
an iron mountain, and one of copper, and one of silver, and
LII. 2. All the hidden things of heaven that shall be. So
GM, omitting the OSd; ?°£:C of Din. and FHLNO. Din.
gives ' The hidden things of the heaven, all things which shall be
2 (note). 4. The mountains will
leap, &c, i. e. witli joy : cf. Ps. cxiv.
4, 6. All become angels in heaven.
This is not to be weakened down into
a mere likeness to the angels. At
the least it denotes an equality of the
righteous with them. In an earlier
section, xci-civ, there is the same
idea. The righteous will be com-
panions of the heavenly hosts, civ. 6,
and rejoice as the angels in heaven,
civ. 4. The idea is further developed
in Apoc. Bar. ; the righteous will be
transformed into the glory of the
angels, li. 5, and be made like unto
them, li. 10, and their surpassing
splendour will exceed that of the
angels, li. 12. This too is the teaching
of the Talmud. 5. The earth re-
joices, for it is transformed, xlv. 5,
and has at last become the inheritance
of the righteous as anciently promised
cf. Ps. xxxvii. 3, 9, 11, 29, 34.
LII. This obscure chapter seems
to symbolize the various future king-
doms of the world, and to be founded
on Dan. ii. 31-45. These kingdoms
of material force, symbolized by iron
and brass and silver and gold and
clay, will be as the chaff of summer
threshing-floors before the kingdom
of the Messiah, Dan. ii. 35 : they will
be broken to pieces and consumed,
Dan. ii. 44. So here the various world
powers represented by these moun-
tains of iron and copper and silver
and gold, &c, will melt as wax before
the fire in the presence of the Messiah,
lii. 6, and be destroyed from off the
face of the earth, lii. 9, and no earthly
might will avail in that day, lii. 7, 8.
Observe that the idea of symbolizing
the world powers by mountains is
drawn from the same section of Daniel.
In ii. 35 the Messianic kingdom is
symbolized by a mountain. 1. In
that place, i. e. in heaven, where he
had seen all the preceding visions.
It is idle to attempt to get an exact
idea of Enoch's movements. In xxxix.
3 he was carried off by a whirlwind
to the ends of heaven : here he is