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

General Introduction. 45
llev. xvi. 5. 'Angel of the En. lx. 16. ' Spirit of the sea.'
waters/
xx. 12. 'And the books were
opened ' and ' another book
was opened which is the
book of life.'.
13. ' The sea gave up the dead
15.
fire/
which were in it, and death
and Hades gave up the dead
which were in them.'
En. xc. 20. ' The books were
opened.'
En. xlvii. 3.
living/
' The books of the
En. li. 1. 'The earth also will
give back those that are
treasured up within it, and
Sheol also will give back that
which it has received, and
hell will give back that which
it owes/ Cf. Ixi. 5.
xx. 11-15. The last judgment is held after the temporary Messianic
kingdom (xx. 4, 5), just as in En. xci-civ. There is however no resur-
rection in the temporary Messianic kingdom of Enoch as there is in
Kevelation.
Cast into the lake of En. xc. 26. ' Cast into that fiery
abyss/
xxi. 1, 2. We have here a new heaven and a new earth, and a new Jeru-
salem coming down from heaven : yet in xxii. 14, 15 all classes of
sinners are said to be without the gates of the city. But if there were
a new earth, this would be impossible. This contradiction may have
arisen from combining the divergent Messianic conceptions which
appear in Enoch. Cf. xlv. 4, 5 ; xc. 29.
(c) We shall next deal with the Epistles of S. Paul. This
Apostle, as we know, borrowed both phraseology and ideas
from many quarters : from the Greek poets ; from the
apocryphal writings, as the Book of Wisdom ; from the lost
Revelation of Elias— 1 Cor. ii. 9 according to Origen, and
Eph. v. 14 according to Epiphanius. We shall find that he
was well acquainted with and used the Book of Enoch.
Horn. viii. 38. 'Neither angels, En. Ixi. 10. 'Angels of power
nor principalities, nor and angels of principalities/
powers/
ix. 5. 'God blessed for ever/ En.lxxvii. 1. 'He that is blessed
for ever/
1 Cor. vi. 11. 'Justified in the En. xlviii. 7. 'Saved in his (i.e.
name of the Lord Jesus/ the Messiah's) name.'