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

298 The Book of Enoch. [Sect.v.
your names are written before the glory of the Great One.
1. Be hopeful ; for aforetime ye were put to shame through
ills and affliction ; but soon ye will shine as the stars of
heaven, ye will shine and ye will be seen, and the portals of
heaven will be opened to you. 3. And persist in your cry
for judgment, and it will appear to you ; for all your tribula-
lation will be visited on the rulers, and on all their helpers
and on those who plundered you. 4. Be hopeful, and cast
not away your hope ; for ye will have great joy as the angels
of heaven. 5. What will ye be obliged to do then ? Ye
will not have to hide on the day of the great judgment and
ye will not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgment
will be far from you for all the generations of the world.
righteous/ In heaven. Wanting in G. 2. Ye will shine.
This repetition of the verb in G G*M wanting in Din. 5. What
will ye be obliged to do then? So GffMN and E 9*lft.
Other MSS. and Din. Ki'f, which is to be translated :
' as for the
derisively described the lot of the see xlvii. 3 (note). The Great One :
righteous in this life, the author turns cf. xiv. 2 ; ciii. 4. 2. Shine as
to the righteous and addresses them. the stars : cf. Dan. xii. 3 ; IV Ezra
This is exactly what he did in the [vi. 71]; vii. 55. Portals of heaven
opening of ciii. He returns to the will be opened to you, i. e. heaven
sinners in civ. 7-9. In these verses will become their dwelling-place, for
the author practically concedes that they will shine as the stars,'
• joy as
the wicked have rightly described the angels,' and be ' companions of the
the lot of the righteous in this life ; hosts of heaven.' The author does
but he holds out a sure hope, a hope not hope for a new earth : cf. xci. 16
however not to be fulfilled in the tran- (note). 3. Their demand for justice
sitory Messianic kingdom on earth, which they make in vain on earth,
but to be directed to the blessed future ciii. 14, 15, will one day be satisfied :
that is awaiting them in heaven : the wherefore let them continue to make
angels are mindful of them for good it: cf. xcvii. 3, 5 (note) ; xcix. 3, 16.
even now, and in due time they will The rulers. These are brought for-
become ' companions of the hosts of ward very prominently here : cf. ciii.
heaven.' 1. The angels are 14, 15 (note). 4. As the angels
mindful of you. Though apparently of heaven: cf. Matt. xxii. 30 ; Mark
forgotten on earth, the righteous are xii. 25 ; also En. civ. 6. 5. See
not forgotten before God by the Crit. Note. Day of the great
angels. On the intercession of the judgment: cf. xix. 1; lxxxiv. 4;
angels, cf. xv. 2 (note) ; xl. 5-7 ; xlvii. xciv. 9; xcviii. 10; xcix. 15. The
2 ; lxxxix. 76. Names are written : eternal judgment : cf. xci. 1 5, ' great