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

Sect. I.] Chapters X. 15 XII 4. jj
destroy them from off the earth. 31. And all the children
of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer
Me adoration and praise, and all will worship Me. 22.
And the earth will be cleansed from all corruption, and from
all sin, and from all punishment and torment, and I will
never again send (them) upon it, from generation to genera-
tion, for ever.
XL i .
And in those days I will open the store chambers of
blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down
upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of
men. 2. Peace and justice will be wedded throughout
all the days of the world and throughout all the generations
of the world.
XII. t . And before all these things fell out Enoch was hidden,
and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden,
and where he abode, and what had become of him. 2. And
all his activities had to do with the holy ones and with the
watchers in his days. 3. And I Enoch was blessing the
great Lord and the king of the world, when lo ! the watchers
called me—Enoch the scribe— and spake to me. 4. ' Enoch
thou scribe of righteousness, go, announce to the watchers of
the heaven who have abandoned the high heaven and the
holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women,
to the Messianic kingdom. 21. The sleep and is transported in spirit unto
conversion of the Gentiles : cf. xc. 30 heaven, xiv. 2 : speaks with a tongue
(note). 22. In corrupt MSS. there of flesh, xiv. 2 : and is terrified, like a
is a reference to the deluge here. mortal man, at the presence of God,
XI. 1. This chapter concludes an xiv. 24. "Was hidden is the Ethiopic
account of the Messianic kingdom. Cf. translation of rip? and /MeredriKev : cf.
Deut. xxviii. 12. 2. Cf. lxxxv. 10; lxxi. 1, 5. 2. Holy ones : see i. 9
Is. xxxii. 17. (note). "Watchers: see i. 5 (note).
XII-XVI. On these chapters, see 3. King of the world : see i. 3 (note).
Spec. Introd. p. 55. 1. "Was hidden, The scribe : cf. xcii. 1. Enoch is
i. e. in order to receive the following further called 'the scribe of righteous-
revelation : cf. x. 2. Enoch is still ness,' xii.4; xv. 1, because he is him-
living: his final translation from self a righteous man, xv. I ; lxxi. 14-
earth has not yet fallen out; for as 16, and declares the righteous judg-
a man he writes the petition for the ment that is coming, xiii. 10; xiv. 1,
angels, xiii. 6 : receives a vision in ; 3 lxxxi. 6 ; Ixxxii. 1, &c. 4. Cf.