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

294 TfU Book of Enoch. [Sect. V.
labours, and that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the
living. 4. And your spirits—
(the spirits) of you who die in
righteousness, will live and rejoice and be glad, and their
spirits will not perish, but their memorial will be before the
face of the Great One unto all the generations of the world :
wherefore then fear not their contumely. 5. Woe to you,
ye sinners, when ye die in your sins, and those who are like
you say regarding you :
' Blessed are they, the sinners : they
have seen all their days. 6. And now they have died in
prosperity and in riches, and have not seen tribulation or
murder in their life ; and they have died in honour, and judg-
ment has not been executed on them during their life/ 7.
Know ye that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol,
and they will become wretched and great will be their tribu-
lation. 8. And into darkness and chains (lit. net ') and a
burning fire, where there is grievous condemnation, will your
spirits enter ; and there will be grievous condemnation for the
generations of the world. Woe to you, for ye will have no
So G: *lH«fi D»£J&, and M practically. G 1
gives »(lH"k WW^.
Din. ' with manifold good is it given.' For *flH*"J we must read
»flH"V. 4. And their spirits will not perish. So G : Wh/V
AT-frl avSGllWai*; but we must emend ^th'hCt into ^dfrfc
with G l M. Other MSS. omit ' will not perish and/ 5. Ye sin-
ners. G G 1 M curiously read ' ye dead sinners/ Die in your sins.
G G 1 M read : (HlOA: "pflUfttiao* ' die in the riches of your sins.'
Seen all their days. G adds ip£? seen good all their days/
8. Where there is grievous condemnation. Din. renders 'beim
grossen Gericht/ Generations of the world. So G G 1 M :
•tah&£i Ite". Other MSS. 'all generations unto eternity/
either. There is apparently only a sure doom awaits them in Sheol
resurrection of the spirit. 5-8. darkness and chains and a burning
A different fate awaits the wicked. flame. 7. Sheol: see lxiii. 10
These have enjoyed all the blessings (note). Sheol here is the final place
which according to the O. T. belonged of punishment : cf. the different signi-
to the righteous. Hence they vaunt fications it has in cii. 5, 11. 8. See
themselves on their prosperity and Crit. Note. Have no peace: see
immunity from punishment; but a v. 4 (note); xciv. 6 (note). 9-