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

286 The Book of Enoch. [Sect.V.
and false measures, and who tempt (others) on the earth ; for
they will thereby be utterly consumed. 13. Woe to you
who build your houses through the grievous toil of others and
their building material is nothing save the bricks and stones
of sin j I tell you ye will have no peace. 14. Woe to them
who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers
and whose souls follow after idols ;
for they will have no rest.
15. Woe to them who work unrighteousness and aid oppression
and slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgment.
16. For He will cast down your glory and bring affliction on
your hearts, and will arouse the spirit of His indignation to
destroy you all with the sword; and all the righteous and
holy will remember your sins.
C. 1. And in those days the fathers together with their
sons will be smitten in one place, brothers will fall in death
one with another until it streams with their blood like a river.
2. For a man will not withhold his hand from slaying his
to you. G gives 'woe to them/ Measures. So G G 1
(iaDft&.C't.
M davtywOt. Other MSS. Aip£1* 'who lay a foundation of
sin and deceit/ Tempt (others). So G ,ftn>h4«.
1 G reads
ftUPir. Other MSS. fao&r 'cause bitterness/ 14. Whose
souls follow after idols. So G M jkf&OLi. G 1 testifies to this
text though its present order is confused: frttiiC&i &*}& i&til
Wi*?. Other MSS. ' who cause their souls to follow after idols.'
16. Will bring affliction on your hearts. Dln/s rendering is
astray here :
' die Bosheit euch ans Herz legen/ The spirit of
His indignation to destroy you. G*M read: m>0*fc (DOi>~i&.fa
C. 1. Their blood. G gives 'your blood/ 2. Withhold
the ' slaying ' of the soul : cf. xxii. apostates as in that verse are here
13. Sheol here means the eternal referred to. Have rest: see xciv.
place of punishment: see lxiii. 10 6 (note). 15. Day of the great
(note) ; ciii. 7. 12. See Crit. judgment : see xciv. 9 ; xcviii. 10
Note ; Prov. xi. 1 ; Hos. xii. 7. 13. xlv. 2 (note). 16. Eemember
Build . . . through the grievous your sins. And accordingly pray for
toil of others : cf. Jer. xxii. 13 ; also your destruction : see xcvii. 5 (note).
En. xciv. 7 ; xcvii. 8. 14. The C. 1. The thought in xcix. 6 is
measure and eternal heritage, i. e. here expanded. Streams with their
the Mosaic land : cf. ver. 2. The blood : cf. Is. xxxiv. 3, 7 ; Ps. lviii.