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

Sect, in.] Chapters LXXXL 2—LXXXII. 1 . 215
and placed me on the earth before the door of my house and
spake unto me :
' Declare everything to thy son Methuselah,
and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in the
sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator. 6. One year we
will leave thee with thy children, till again a command
(comes), that thou mayest teach thy children and record (it)
for them, and testify to them (even) to all thy children ;
and
in the second year they will withdraw thee from their midst.
7. Let thy heart be strong, for the good will announce
righteousness to the good: with the righteous will they
rejoice, and they will offer mutual congratulation. 8. But
the sinners will die with the sinners, and the apostate go
down with the apostate. 9. And those also who practise
righteousness will die on account of the deeds of men, and be
gathered together on account of the doings of the godless/
10. And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and
I came to my people, blessing the Lord of the world.]
LXXXII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things
No flesh. GM omit the negative. 6. Till again a command
(comes). So G: Xfth: 110(1; tfcHH. Other MSS.: Xflhi *lOQ:
WITH 'till thou art strong again/ 7. With the righteous
will they rejoice. So G M. Other MSS.: 'the righteous will
rejoice with the righteous.' 10. Lord of the world. So G M.
Din. gives, ' Lord of the worlds.'
MSS. read 'three'—a change which because of the evil,' *|DN?. ^V]y} *3BO
cf. 11 Kings xxii. 20; Book
may be due to lxxxvii. 2, 3. Mo flesh P^^H :
is righteous, &c: cf. Job ix. 2; Ps. of Wisdom i v. 7-14. The Hebrew verb
xiv. 1. Creator : cf. xciv. 10. 6. is used of being 'gathered to one's
Till again a command (comes) : see fathers,' Num. xx. 26. In Ps. civ. 29
Oit. Note. These two verses, vv. 5, 6, God is said to 'gather' the spirit of
are inserted to serve as an introduc- animals when they die. 10. Lord
tion to xci-civ. 8. The apostate of the world : cf. i. 3 ; xii. 3 ; lviii. 4
will go down, i. e. into Gehenna. lxxxi. 3 ; lxxxii. 7 ; lxxxiv. 2, 3.
9. The righteous die indeed, yet are LXXXII. The conclusion of the
they 'gathered' unto the abodes of Book of Celestial Physics. 1. In
the blessed. The phrase is borrowed xxxiii. 4 Uriel writes down every-
directly from Is. lvii. I, where the thing for Enoch ; but in this book,
literal translation runs, ' the righteous cf. lxxii. 1 ; lxxiv. 2 ; lxxv. 3 ; lxxix.
is gathered out of the way of or 2-6; lxxxii. 1, Uriel only shows the