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

282 The Book of Enoch. [Sect.V.
7. And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that
you do not know and that you do not see that every sin is
every day recorded in the presence of the Most High. 8.
From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith
ye oppressed is written down every day till the day of your
judgment. 9. Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly
will ye perish :
ye have transgressed against the wise, and so
good hap will not be your portion. 10. And now, know ye
that ye are prepared for the day of destruction :
wherefore do
not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die ; for
you know no ransom ; for ye are prepared for the day of the
great judgment and for the day of tribulation and great shame
for your spirit. 1 1 . Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who
work wickedness and eat blood : whence have ye good things
to eat and drink and to be filled ? From all the good things
which our Lord, the Most High, has placed in abundance on
the earth; and ye indeed shall have no peace. 12. Woe to
you who love the deeds of unrighteousness : wherefore do you
hope for good hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be
delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they will cut
Deeds of oppression. G omits ' deeds/ 8. Is written down.
G reads J&J^rh^. Your judgment. G 'judgment.'
Transgressed against the wise. So G and G
9.
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Other MSS. ^Ci^OPao* ye have not hearkened/
1 o. For destruction. G reads ADA; thT u lKXl(iD*. 11. Who work.
every day in heaven. 7. Beeorded : (note). For your spirit : see ver. 3
cf. xcvii. 6 ; xcviii. 8 ; c. 10 ; civ. 7, 8. (note). 11. The denunciation of
8. From henceforth, ye know, i. e. individual sinners. Obstinate of
from the publication of Enoch's book heart : cf. c. 8. Eat blood : cf. vii.
in these later times. 9. This verse 5. Not content with enjoying the
introduces a long succession of woes best of everything that God gives,
directed against the sinners. 10. these sinners eat blood and break
Prepared : cf. xciv. 9. Die. This the divine law : cf. Book of Jubilees
refers not only to the loss of the life vii, xxi ; Acts xv. 29. Have no
temporal but also of the life eternal. peace : see v. 4 (note). 12. De-
No ransom : Ps. xlix. 8, 9. Day of livered into the hands of the
great judgment, &c: see xlv. 2 righteous: see xci. 12 (note). 13.