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

1 66 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. IT.
(lit. l from them '). 13. And the righteous and elect will be
saved on that day and will never again from thenceforth see the
face of the sinners and unrighteous. 14. And the Lord of
Spirits will abide over them, and with that Son of Man will
they eat and lie down and rise up for ever and ever. 15.
And the righteous and elect will have risen from the earth,
and ceased to be of downcast countenance, and will have
been clothed with garments of glory. 16. And these shall
be your garments, garments of life before the Lord of Spirits
and your garments will not grow old, and your glory will
not pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
LXIII. 1. In those days will the mighty and the kings
the Lord of Spirits.' 14. Will they eat. So G M. FHILO
and Din. read 'will they abide and eat/ also N (sec. hand).
15, 16. Clothed with garments of glory. And these shall
be your garments, garments of life. So G M, which read (l>(\Chl
4W!A: rt-flrfit:: wahMi ^M- &*ti\Xia»\ 2W1A; t. So also
I N, but that they omit £t>flftlicn>«. K reads as Dln.'s text : the
other MSS. vary. The concluding words of lxii. 16, 'your gar-
ments will not grow old, and your glory will not pass away/ con-
firm the reading of GM. The fact that all these variations are
absent from Dln/s MSS. points to their being due to a late
recension.
LXIII. 1. The mighty and the kings. So GM: cf. note on
Used figuratively here : cf. lxiii. 11. 45 ; Herm. Sim. viii. 2. See also En.
Drunk: cf.Is. xxxiv.6. 13. Saved: cviii. 12. Will not grow old: cf.
cf. xlviii. 7. 14. The kingdom is Deut. viii. 4 ; xxix. 5.
at last established and God Himself LXIII. The writer again returns
dwells amongst them: cf. Is. lx. 19,20; to the kings and the mighty in order
Zeph. iii. 15-17: and the Messiah to describe their bitter and unavail-
will dwell with them : cf. xlv. 4 ing repentance. The description is
xxx viii. 2. The kingdom lasts for not an amplification of lxii. 5-12, but
ever. 15. This verse does not refer takes up the history at a later stage
to the resurrection but signifies that after that the kings have appealed in
all the humiliations of the righteous vain to the Messiah and are already
are at an end. 16. Garments of in the custody of the angels of
life: see Crit. Notes on vv. 15, 16. punishment. As their appeal to the
On the garments of the blessed, cf. Messiah has failed, they entreat the
11 Cor. v. 3, 4 ; Kev. iii. 4, 5, 18 ; iv. 4 angels of punishment, to whom they
vi. 11 ; vii. 9, 13, 14; iv Ezra ii. 39, are delivered, to grant them a respite