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

Introduction, 261
manifest relation between them 1 Let us proceed to weigh the
evidence on the former question. At first sight, the evidence
for unity of authorship seems overwhelming. (1) The phrase
' ye will have no peace ' is found in xci-civ and in i-xxxvi, and in
these sections only—xciv. 6; xcviii. 11, 16 ; xcix. 13; ci. 3; cii. 3 :
ciii. 8 ; i. 8 ; v. 4 ; xii. 5 ; xiii. 1
; xvi. 4.
' Plant of righteous-
ness/ xciii. 2, 5, 10; x. 16. (2) Titles of God in common. 'The
Holy and Great One/ xcii. 2 ; xcvii. 6 ; xcviii. 6 ; civ. 9 ; x. 1
xiv. 1 ; xxv. 3. The Great One/ ciii. 4 ; civ. 1 ; xiv. 2. ' The
Great Glory/ cii. 3 ; xiv. 20. (3) References in each to the
Law, xcix. 2 ; v. 4 : to the eating of blood, xcviii. 1 1 ; vii. 5
to the regularity of nature, ci. 1-7 ; ii. i-v. 4: to the hardhearted-
ness of men, xcviii. 11; v. 4. (4) No hint of a Messiah in either.
(5) The division of human history in the Apocalypse of Weeks into
ten weeks, each apparently of seven generations, seems to agree
with x. 12, where a period of seventy generations is given. (6)
The date of the final judgment over the Watchers in xci. 15
at the close of the tenth week seems to agree with the date
assigned to it in x. 12, i.e. at the end of seventy generations.
(7) In both the resurrection is taught, xci. 10; xcii. 3 ; c. ; 5 xxii.
(8) In both the scene of the Messianic kingdom is the earth
as it is.
There are thus many points of connexion, but as we proceed
we shall see that these are mainly external. The points of
divergence, on the other hand, are far more serious because
internal. (1) In the first place, the last four points of agreement
mentioned above are apparent, but not real. The seventh day
of the tenth week in xci. 15 marks the close of the Messianic
kingdom, which began in the eighth week: whereas the seventy
generations in x. 12 terminate with the establishment of the
Messianic kingdom. Nor do these periods start from the same
date : the Apocalypse of Weeks reckons from the creation of
Adam : the seventy generations from the judgment of the angels.
(2) The final judgment in xci. 15 is held at the close of the
Messianic kingdom, but in x. 12, xvi. I, before its establishment.
(3) Whereas the resurrection implied in xxii is only a resuscitation
to a temporary blessedness, v. 9, x. 17, xxv. 6, the resurrection
in xci-civ is not to the temporary Messianic kingdom spoken
of in xci. 13, 14, xcvi. 8, but to one of eternal blessedness sub-
sequent to the final judgment. For, from c. 4, 5 we see that the
righteous do not rise till God has judged sinners and an end has