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

Sect. IT.] Chapters LVI.S — L VIII. 5. 151
heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from
the heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved
from their place, and (the sound thereof) was heard from
the one extremity of heaven to the other in one day. 3.
And they will all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits.]
And this is the end of the second similitude.
LVIII. 1. And I began to speak the third similitude con-
cerning the righteous and the elect. 2. Blessed are ye, ye
righteous and elect, for glorious will be your lot. 3. And
the righteous will be in the light of the sun, and the elect in
the light of eternal life : there will be no end to the days of
their life, and the days of the holy will be without number.
4. And they will seek the light and find righteousness with
the Lord of Spirits : there will be peace to the righteous in
the name of the Lord of the world. 5. And after that it
M but with the correction of f^Al* into \MPt. 2. From the
one extremity of heaven to the other. So GM &7 hR i t&.'.
rt"7£; Xfth: fiB-C^. Other MSS. 'from the extremity of earth
to the extremity of heaven.'
LVIII. 1. G omits this verse, but leaves space for it. 4. In
the name of the Lord of the world. So G flften>. Other MSS.
and Din. give (Mft ' with the Lord of the world.'
their return. 2. The pillars of all created beings, but especially over
the earth were moved : cf. Hag. ii. the great ones of the earth and the
6, 7 ; Joel iii. 16.
LVIII. Here begins the third
final blessedness of the righteous and
elect.' 2. Glorious will be your
similitude. It is probable that a lot. This lot is preserved for them
large part of it has been lost, being by the Messiah, xlviii. 7. 3. Light
displaced to make room for the of the sun : see xxxviii. 4 (note).
Noachic fragments. As it stands, it Eternal life : see xxxvii. 4 (note) :
embraces lviii ; lxi-lxiv ; lxix. 26-29. °f- Dan - x"- 2 > ^89' °^ ^ol. "*• l ^'
The introductory words, ' Concerning 4. They will through a natural af-
the righteous and the elect,' in this finity seek after light and righteous-
similitude, as in the other two, are ness : cf. xxxviii. 4 (note). Lord, of
but a very indifferent index to its the world. This title is found again
contents. The similitude as it has in lxxxi. 10. For similar expressions
reached us, might reasonably be de- cf. i. 3 ; xii. 3 ; lxxxi. 3 ; lxxxii. 7 ;
scribed as 'Concerning the final judg- lxxxiv. 2. 5. They will be bidden
ment held by the Son of Man over to seek and make their own the