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

Sect. v.] Chapter XCI. 3-1 1. 267
gression will again prevail. 7. And then when unrighteous-
ness and sin and blasphemy and violence in all kinds of deeds
will increase, and apostasy and transgression and uncleanness
increase, a great chastisement from heaven will come upon
them all, and the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and
chastisement to execute judgment on earth. 8. In those
days violence will be cut off from its roots and the roots
of unrighteousness, together with deceit, and they will be
destroyed from under heaven. 9. And all the idols of the
heathen will be abandoned : the temples will be burned with
fire and they will be removed from the whole earth, and they
(i.e. the heathen) will be cast into the judgment of fire and
will perish in wrath and in grievous eternal judgment. 10.
And the righteous one will arise from sleep and wisdom will
arise and be given unto them. [11. And after that the
when we deal with that section. Thus, for chapters xcvii. 6 D-
cviii. 10 we possess two MSS. belonging to the beginning of the
sixteenth century. In that section we shall distinguish the two
MSS. as G and G 1
. 7. In all kinds of deeds. So GM.
Other MSS. 'and all kinds of deeds/ And transgression.
Wanting in G. From heaven. Wanting in G. The holy
Lord. After these words G adds £0; 9°AC 8. For (DhJv&CDi
Ocn>q G reads wOod^ and omits D&tdfMt against M and all
other MSS.: 'in those days violence will be cut off from its roots
and unrighteousness together with deceit from under heaven/
9. For &YYb(t G reads j&riiTA. 11. For k^teD G reads
7,8. This fresh development of wicked- where the conversion of the heathen
ness will call forth the final judgment. is expected. That verse, however,
Boots of unrighteousness : cf. vv. belongs to the Apocalypse of Weeks
5, 11. 9. The absolute rejection which has all the appearance of an
of the heathen seems to be taught earlier fragment incorporated in his
here. This was a prevailing though work by the original author of xci-civ.
not the universal belief of later 10. The righteous one. Used col-
Judaism : see Weber, L. d. T. 368. lectively as in xcii. 3. In xci-civ
Idolatry is reprobated in xcix. 7-9, only the righteous attain to the Resur-
10, as here. They will be cast into rection : see li. 1 (note) for full dis-
the judgment of fire. This reproba- cussion of the subject. Wisdom :
tion of the heathen does not appear see xlii. 1, 2 (note). 11. As we
to agree with the teaching of ver. 14, have already seen (p. 260), xci. 12-