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

Sect. I.] Chapter I. 1-2. 57
and godless, x. 12; xvi. 1, and all classes of Israel, with one excep-
tion, receive their final award, i. 9. To make this possible, this
judgment is preceded by a General Resurrection of Israel, xxii.
A final end is now made of sin on the earth, and the earth cleansed,
x. 15, 16, 20-22 ; the wicked are cast into Gehenna, and their
punishment is a spectacle for the righteous to behold, xxvii. 2 ; the
Messianic kingdom is established, with Jerusalem and Palestine as
its centre, xxv. 5—there is no Messiah, and God abides with men,
xxv. 3 ; all the Gentiles will become righteous and worship God,
x. 2 1 ;
the righteous are allowed to eat of the tree of life, xxv. 4-6,
and thereby enjoy patriarchal lives, v. 9 ; xxv. 6, begetting 1000
children, x. 17, and enjoying unlimited material blessings, v. 7,
x. 18, 19; xi. 2.
As to what becomes of the righteous, after the second death,
there is no hint in this fragmentary Section. There is much
celestial, terrestrial, and subterrestrial geography in xvii-xix, xxi-
xxxvi.
TRANSLATION.
I. I. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he
blessed the elect and righteous, who will beJiving in the day
of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be
removed. 2. And Enoch answered and spake— (Enoch) a
righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, that he might
see a vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels
showed me, and from them I heard everything and I under-
stood what I saw, but not for this generation, but for the
remote generations which are for to come. 3. Concerning
I. 2. God. I have rendered hVYUMrtyC by 'God,' and &7R&
by ' Lord.' The former word is at times a rendering of 6 Kvpws,
and at times of 6 6e6s in the LXX. It occurs ten times in Enoch.
h7°^\\l=6 6e6s is found nine times. Vision of the Holy One.
So BG fcfcfl and the Giz. Gk. Other MSS. 'holy vision/
I. 1. The elect and righteous. similar designations of God see v. 3.
This designation is found also in The change from the third to the first
xxxviii. 2, 3, 4; xxxix. 6, 7 ; xlviii. 1 ; person in this verse, is of frequent
lviii. 1, 2 ; lxi. 13 ; lxii. 1 2, 13, 15 ; lxx. occurrence in this book : cf. xii. 1-3 ;
3. 2. The Holy One. For this and xxxvii. 1, 2 ; lxx. 1-3; lxxi. 5 ; xcii. 1.