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

148 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. II.
I will cause Mine anger and My punishment, Mine anger and
My punishment to abide upon them, saith God, the Lord of
Spirits. 4. Ye mighty kings who will dwell on the earth,
ye shall have to behold Mine Elect, how he sits on the throne
of glory and judges Azazel, and all his associates, and all his
hosts in the name of the Lord of Spirits.'
LVI. 1 . And I saw there the hosts of the angel of punish-
ment going with scourges and chains of iron and bronze.
2. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, and
said :
( To whom are these angels with the scourges going ?
3. And he said unto me :
' Each one to his elect and beloved
ones that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of
the valley. 4. And then that valley will be filled with
their elect and beloved, and the days of their lives will be at
an end, and the days of their being led astray will from
that time on no longer be reckoned. [5. And in those
f&AC (sic), and this I have followed above. 4. Mighty
kings. See xxxviii. 5 (note). Throne of glory. So G M :
other MSS. and Din. ' Throne of My glory.' All his hosts. G
omits ' his hosts.'
LVI. 1. "With scourges and chains of iron and bronze.
So G a)£Xfh\*i aDtyw&ri a) . . (sic). Other MSS. omit
' scourges and.' 2. With the scourges. So G reading
ao^v^-f after Art: JE.X'W. Other MSS. omit e
scourges.' 5.
anger, i. e. ' before this manifestation The terra ' beloved ' is specially used
of Mine anger ' : cf. a similar expres- of the demons in regard to their
sion in 1. 4. 4. The kings have parents in i-xxxvi : see x. 12 ; xiv. 6.
to witness the judgment passed on Moreover, it would be possible to
the angels : if Azazel and his hosts translate, ' the days of their leading
are judged and condemned by the astray.' 4. Wo longer be reckoned,
Messiah, how much more likely will i. e. be at an end. 5-LVII. 3 ft .
they ! The
text should almost cer- We have here another addition to
tainly be ' Ye kings and mighty ' : see the text. It depicts the last struggle
xxxviii. 5 (note) ; lxii. 6 (Crit. Note). of the heathen powers against the
LVI. 1-4. There is here finally Messianic kingdom established in
the judgment of the remaining theo- Jerusalem. Such a conception is quite
cratic sinners and their condemnation in place in lxxxiii-xc, xci-civ, but is
to Gehenna. It is possible, however, irreconcileable with the ruling ideas
to interpret these verses of the watch- in xxxvii-lxx. A Messiah who was
ers and their children the demons. only a man with his seat at Jerusalem