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

76 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. I.
15. And destroy all the lustful souls, and the children of the
watchers, because they have oppressed mankind. 16. De-
stroy all oppression from the face of the earth and let every
evil work come to an end : and the plant of righteousness
and uprightness will appear, labour will prove a blessing:
righteousness and uprightness will be established in joy for
evermore. 17. And then will all the righteous escape
and will live till they beget a thousand children, and
all the days of their youth and their old age (lit. sabbath)
will they complete in peace. .
18.
And in those days
will the whole earth be tilled in righteousness and will
all be planted with trees and be full of blessing. 19. And
all desirable trees will be planted on it, and vines will be
planted on it : the vine which is planted thereon will yield
wine in abundance, and of all the seed which is sown
thereon will each measure bear ten thousand, and each
measure of olives will yield ten presses of oil. 20. And
cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all
unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness,
and from all uncleanness which is wrought upon the earth
could easily be taken by the translator for KaraKavOfj = be burned,
and so give rise to the present Ethiopic text. Rightly translated
then, the verse refers to the women who are to be destroyed with the
fallen watchers. Cf. xix. 2. KaTaKavOff is the reading of the Giz. Gk.
15. Destroy, &c. The writer is still has here gone over wholly to a descripdescribing
the duties of Gabriel, i. e. tion of the Messianic times. The
the destruction of the giants and the picture is a very sensuous one. Their
imprisonment of the fallen watchers. old age : cf. xxv. 3, 4 (note). 18,
16. Plant of righteousness, i. e. 19. The future is depicted after 0. T.
Israel. Israel springs from a seed prophesy. Cf. Amos ix. 13, ; 14 Hos.
that ' is sown' by God, lxii. 8 : hence ii. 22, 23 ; Jer. xxxi. 5 ; Is. xxv. 6 ;
it is established as 'a plant of the Ezek.xxviii. 26; xxxiv. 26, 27. Will
seed for ever,' lxxxiv. 6, is called ' the each measure bear, &c. : cf. Is. v.
plant of uprightness,' xciii. 2, ' the 10, and the chiliastic expectations of
plant of righteousness,' xciii. 5, ' the Papius in Iren. adv. Meter, v. 33.
eternal plant of righteousness,' xciii. 20. This verse could be interpreted
10, and finally ' the plant of righteous of the deluge, but it seems better to
judgment,' xciii. 5. 17. The writer refer it, as the verses before and after,