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

Sect. v.] Chapters XCI V. 8 — XC VI. 2. 277
your desires. 4. Woe to you who fulminate irreversible
anathemas: healing shall therefore be far from you because
of your sins. 5. Woe to you who requite your neighbour
with evil ; for ye will be requited according to your works.
6. Woe to you, lying witnesses, and to those who weigh out
injustice, for suddenly will ye perish. 7. Woe to you sinners,
for ye persecute the righteous ; for ye will be delivered up
and persecuted, ye people of injustice, and heavy will their
yoke be upon you.
XCVI. 1. Be hopeful, ye righteous ; for suddenly will the
sinners perish before you, and ye will have lordship over them
according to your desires. [2. And in the day of the tribu-
lation of sinners, your children will mount and rise as eagles
and higher than the vultures will be your nest, and ye will
ascend as squirrels and enter the crevices of the earth, and
G reads ' their hands/ 4. Irreversible anathemas : healing
shall therefore be far. G reads : 7H^ti h; &Y&JYdh\ wLa)(\\
hm>! £C$$. M : VU^fi h(wi K&r&Srdh\ w&ahfti «#. 7.
Ye will be delivered up and persecuted, ye people of injustice.
G reads : ^"ZTOL: (D ! V(\£:&i ftOooq ' ye deliver up and persecute
with injustice/ For XA: O^q M reads XSPtaoq. For UhlTa*
' G M read RA7 its (i. e. injustice) yoke/
XCVI. 1. Ye righteous; for suddenly will . . . perish.
Wanting in G. ([Xiav* wanting in G. 2. And rise. G reads
refer to the Maccabean victories; for sinners. 1. Lordship: cf. xci.
these were victories over Sadducean 12 (note); xcv. 3, 7; xcviii. 12. 2.
influences. Though the Maccabean This verse must be an interpolation :
princes are now Sadducees themselves, it is silly in itself and interrupts the
the period of the Sword, the time of the context. It is the wicked who will
vengeance of the righteous, is coming. flee to hide themselves in secret
4. Magical practices and incantations places, xcvii. 3 ; c. ; 4 cii. 1, and not
are here referred to. 5. Requited the righteous : the latter will not
according to your works : cf. c. 7. have to conceal themselves on the
6. Weigh out injustice, i. e. are day of judgment, civ. 5. In the day
unjust judges. 7- See Grit. Note of the tribulation of sinners, i. e.
for a possibly better text. when the sinners suffer tribulation.
XCVI. The righteous exhorted to Mount and rise, &c. From Is. xl.
hope in the coming Messianic kingdom, 31. Higher than the vultures:
and fresh woes denounced against the cf. Jer. xlix. 16. Into the crevices