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

Sect. I.] Chapters IV— V. 61
tiplied in eternal execration and ye will find no mercy.
6. In those days ye shall give yonr name for an eternal
execration unto all the righteous, and they will evermore execrate
you as sinners— you together with (all other) sinners.
7. But for the elect there will be light and joy and peace, and
they will inherit the earth : but
upon you, ye ungodly,
there will be execration. 8. Then too will wisdom be
bestowed on the elect, and they will all live and never
again sin, either through heedlessness or through pride,
but they who are wise will be humble nor fall again into
sin. 9. And they will not be punished all the days of their
life, nor will they die of plagues or visitations of wrath, but
they will complete the full number of the days of their life,
and their lives will grow old in peace, and the years of their
joy will be many, in eterjial happiness and peace all the days
of their life.
'will be multiplied in eternal execration.' Later scribes, finding
no subject for the verb in this clause, omitted the preposition and
read C7«7 D : hence Dln.'s text, ' eternal execration will be mul-
tiplied upon you.' 6. Ye shall give your name for an eternal
execration unto all the righteous, reading li(W with G instead of
Mao with all other MSS. but M. If we accept the other reading,
we are to translate :
' Ye shall give up your peace to become an
eternal execration/ The phrase appears to be drawn from Isaiah
lxv. 15,
' Ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen/
n^rajj npntfb pjoe* Dnnam. The Giz. Gk. supports G.
ci. 3; cii. 3; ciii. 8. 7. The tern- 352) has already seen, vi. 3-8; viii.
poral blessings promised in the O.T. 1-3; ix. 7 ; x. 11 belong to a Sem-
are here renewed, but on the question jaza cycle of myths ; for in these pas-
of Sheol and the Eesurrection the sages Semjaza is represented as chief
writer has forsaken O.T. ground. and Azazel tenth in command : as also
8. Will wisdom be bestowed on the in lxix. 2. Elsewhere in Enoch Azaelect
: see xlii. 1,2. 9. Cf. Is. zel is chief and Semjaza is not men-
lxv. 20, 22; Zech. viii. 4; En. xxv. 4, tioned. Again x. 1-3 belongs to an
5 (note). Apocalypse of Noah, many fragments
VI-XI. The abruptness with which of which are found in Enoch. An-
vi-xi are introduced, is quite in other fragment of this Apocalypse is
keeping with the fragmentary and preserved by Syncellus in the Greek ;
composite nature of the rest of the but to this there is no corresponding
Section. As Din. (Herzog, R. E. xii. text in the Ethiopic.