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

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The Book of Enoch.
(A) We will begin with the General Epistles. I quote from the
Revised Version when a more accurate rendering is desirable.
(a) S. Jude 4. Denying our only
Master and Lord.
6. 'The angels which kept
not,' &c.
13. ' Wandering stars.'
14. 'The seventh from Adam.'
14, 15. A direct quotation
from
1 S. Peter iii. 19, 20.
iv. 1 7. ' Judgment to begin at
the house of God.'
2 S. Peter ii. 4. (Observe how
appropriately raprapaxras is
used in connection with the
fallen angels : Tartarus was
originally the place of
punishment of the Titans,
iii. 13. 'A new heaven and a
new earth.'
1 S. John ii. 1. 'Jesus Christ the
righteous.'
ii. 8. ' The darkness is past
and the true light,' &c.
i. 7. 'Walk in the light.'
En. xlviii. 10. ' Denied the Lord
of spirits and His anointed.'
Cf. xxxviii. 2 ; xli. 2 ; lvii. 8.
En. x. 5, 6, 12, 13.
En. xviii. 15.
En. lx. 8. 'The seventh from
Adam.'
En. i. 9 ; v. 4
En. x. 4, 5, 12, 13.
; xxvii. 2.
En. i. 7. 'Judgment
the righteous.'
En. x. 4-6, 12, 13.
over all
En. xlv. 4, 5 ; lxxii. 1 ; xci. 16.
En. xxxviii. 2. c The Righteous
One.'
En. lviii. 5. ' It has become bright
as the sun upon earth, and the
darkness is past.'
En. xcii. 4. ' The righteous . . .
will walk in eternal light.'
[The contrast between light and darkness in S. John's Epistles repeatedly
enforced in Enoch. See xxxviii. 4 (note).]
iii. 2. ' We shall be like Him.' En. xc. 37, 38.
S.James i. 8. 'Double-minded En. xci. 4. 'A double heart.' See
man.' note,
v. 1-6. Woes against the rich. En. xciv. 8-1 1 with parallel
passages.
(b) Book of Revelation.—The writer or writers of this book
are steeped in Jewish apocalyptic literature.