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

1 60 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. 11.
measure/ 3. And the angel who went with me said unto
me : ' These are bringing to the righteous the measures of the
righteous, and the ropes of the righteous, that they may stay
themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
4. The elect will begin to dwell with the elect, and those measures
will be given to faith and will strengthen righteousness.
5. And these measures will reveal everything that is hidden
in the depths of the earth, and those who have been destroyed
by the desert, and those who have been devoured by the fish
of the sea and by the beasts, that they may return, and stay
themselves on the day of the Elect One ;
for no one will be
destroyed before the Lord of Spirits, and none can be destroyed.
6. And all the powers who dwell above in the heaven received
ccrds.' 3. To the righteous. So GN M&PTi. Other
MSS. omit. 4. Will strengthen righteousness. So GM
iOTOT; (SR&ty. Other MSS. 'will strengthen the word of
righteousness/ 5. Those who have been devoured by the
fish of the sea and by the beasts. GM read XA: 1*flA.(h
XcnW-Ot: wMi *(UV(h >0»V>1\ dfhC 6. So M (DiJ»fc
*XHH: XA; fhn>&02vt; bPHU ltfira*i $fi&\ mpfc 0; w-dCYi:
0; h; M*V. Also G, but that it inserts W before $£$L and
omits before \\av\ Din. with BC against ADEGM inserts
"frlMJft; fcav after VW"; and so we have 'and all who dwell
lxx. 3. 3-5. The measures perished; they are alive unto the
of the righteous, are according Lord of Spirits, and will return and
to Din. the measures wherewith stay themselves on the day of his
the inheritance of the righteous is Elect One : these measures are given
measured. But even though these to faith and strengthen the righteous,
might be a staff whereon the right- 4. Sinners will be driven from off the
eous might stay themselves, how could face of the earth : cf. xxxviii. 1 (note),
it be said of such \ measures ' that 5. Only the resurrection of the right-
they will reveal everything that is eous is here spoken of. In li. 1, 2
hidden, and all that have perished ? I there is an account of the resurrection
cannot give a satisfactory explanation. of all Israel : see note. After the
In some way, however, these 'mea- resurrection follows the judgment,
sures of the righteous ' are an ideal 6. All who dwell above in the
representation of the community of heaven, i.e. the angels : cf.vv. 10, 12;
the righteous, living and departed, xlvii. 2. In ix. 3 they are called < the
and reveal especially the latter; for holy ones of the heaven.' The angels
it matters not by what death these were commanded to sing praises, and