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

60 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. I.
seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves,
except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain
the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
IV. And again I observed the days of summer how the
sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade
and shelter against the heat of the sun, and the earth also
burns with glowing heat, and so you cannot tread on the
earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
V. i. I observed how the trees cover themselves with
green leaves and bear fruit : wherefore give ye heed to every-
thing, and recognise how He who liveth for ever hath made
all this for you. 2. How His works are before Him in
each succeeding year, and all His works serve Him and alter
not but everything is done as God hath ordained. 3. And
behold how the seas and the rivers together accomplish their
task. 4. But as for you, ye have not continued steadfast,
and the law of the Lord have ye not fulfilled but have
transgressed it, and have slanderously spoken proud and
hard words with your impure mouths against His greatness
O ye hard hearted ye will find no peace. 5. And therefore
will ye execrate your days and be bereft of the years of
your life: but the years of your destruction will be mul-
V. 5. Be bereft of the years of your life. "fVT^Ct may be either
2nd Pers. PI. Future I. i='ye will lose, be bereft of'=a7ro-
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