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

272 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. v.
announce to you, my sons, I Enoch, according to that which
appeared to me in the heavenly vision, and know through the
word of the holy angels, and have learnt from the heavenly
tables/ 3. And Enoch began to recount from the books
and spake :
' I was born the seventh in the first week, while
judgment and righteousness still tarried. 4. And after me
there will arise in the second week great wickedness, and
deceit will spring up j
and in it there will be the first end and
in it a man will be saved ; and after it is ended unrighteous-
ness will grow up and He will make a law for the sinners.
5. And after that in the third week at its close a man
will be chosen as the plant of righteous judgment, and
after him will come for evermore the plant of righteousness.
6. And after that in the fourth week, at its close, visions of
the holy and righteous will be seen, and a law for all future
generations and an enclosure will be made for them. 7.
And after that in the fifth week, at its close, will the house
So G M. Other MSS. ' plant of righteousness and uprightness.'
5. Plant of righteous judgment. G adds H^CiT , and omits
the rest of the verse. Before 111A; 8\£*fr M inserts A. 6.
G reads %&