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

3v. i. 4. ' Seven spirits which
are before His throne.' Cf.
IT. 5;
viii. 2.
ii. 7. ' To him that overcometh
will I give to eat of the
tree of life ' : also xxii. 2,
14, 19' the right to the tree
of life/
iii. 5.
ment/
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' Clothed in white rai-
10. 'Them that dwell upon
the earth/
En. xc. 21. 'Seven first white
ones/ Cf. Tobit xii. 15.
En. xxv. 4, 5. Only the elect in
the Messianic kingdom are
allowed to eat of the tree of
life.
En. xc. 31. 'Clothed in white/
En. xxxvii. 5. ' Those that dwell
on the earth/
[This phrase has always a bad sense in Eevelation with the exception of
xiv. 6. Cf. vi. 10 ; viii. 13 ; xi. 10 ; xiii. 8, 14 ; xvii. 8, and that in this
respect Revelation follows the use of this phrase in the Noachic inter-
polations, see En. xxxvii. 5 (note).]
iii. 12. 'The New Jerusalem/
20. 'I will come unto him and
sup with him/
21. 'Sit with Me on My
throne/ Cf. xx. 4.
iv. 6. ' Round about the
throne were four living
creatures/
v. 11.
vi. 10. ' How long, Master,
the holy and true, dost
thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that
dwell on the earth %
vi. 15, 16. Compare the fear
of ' the kinsrs of the earth,
En. xc. 29.
En. lxii. 14,' (The righteous) will
eat, and lie down, and rise up
with that Son of man/
En. cviii. 12. 'I will seat each
on the throne of his honour/
En. xl. 2. ' On the four sides of
the Lord of Spirits I saw four
presences/
En. xiv. 22 ; xl. 1 ; lxxi. 8.
En. xlvii. 2. ' The prayer of the
righteous that it (i.e. the
shedding of their blood) may
not be in vain before the
Lord of Spirits, that judgment
may be done unto them, and
that they may not have to
suffer for ever/ Cf. xcvii.
3-5; xcix. 3, 16; civ. 3:
also xxii. 5-7 where the souls
of the righteous in Hades pray
for vengeance.
En. lxii. 3, 5. 'The kings, and
the mighty, and the exalted