1 Enoch 5

Observe ⌈⌈ye⌉⌉ how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed ⌈and know⌉ with regard to all ⌈His works⌉, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.

Again they consider the days of summer, that the sun is upon it at its very beginning; while you seek for a covered and shady spot on account of the burning sun; while the earth is scorched up with fervid heat, and you become incapable of walking either upon the ground or upon the rocks in consequence of that heat.

Solomon directs the sluggard to the animal kingdom ; Enoch, the sinners to the inanimate, as could be expected from an author who knows the secrets of nature, and writes a " book of the luminaries," 72-82. These obey God's laws, but rational man does not; cf. Ps. civ. 19 ; Eccl. i.

And ⌈all⌉ His works go on ⌈thus⌉ from year to year for ever, and all the tasks ⌈which⌉ they accomplish for Him, and ⌈their tasks⌉ change not, but according as ⌈⌈God⌉⌉ hath ordained so is it done.

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And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and ⌈change not⌉ their tasks ⌈from His commandments⌉.

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And see how the seas and the rivers together accomplish their work.

But ye--ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words^a With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

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He will come from his abode, which, like Isa. xxvi. 21 ; Mic. i. 3, indicates him as coming to judge. — 4. Sinai, as the mount from which the ^aw was given, will be the place upon which the Lord will descend to judge according to this law; cf. Deut. xxxiii. 2; Ps. Ixviii.

Therefore shall ye execrate your days, And the years of your life shall perish, And ⌈the years of your destruction⌉ shall be multiplied in eternal execration, And ye shall find no mercy. 6a. In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous, b. And by you shall ⌈all⌉ who curse, curse, And all the sinners ⌈and godless⌉ shall imprecate by you, 7c. And for you the godless there shall be a curse. 6d. And all the . . . shall rejoice, e. And there shall be forgiveness of sins, f. And every mercy and peace and forbearance: g. There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light. i. And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation, j But on you all shall abide a curse. 7a. But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace, b. And they shall inherit the earth. 8 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, And they shall all live and never again sin, Either through ungodliness or through pride: But they who are wise shall be humble. 9 And they shall not again transgress, Nor shall they sin all the days of their life, Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath, But they shall complete the number of the days of their life. And their lives shall be increased in peace, And the years of their joy shall be multiplied, In eternal gladness and peace, All the days of their life.

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A similar contrast is found in Testamentum Naphtali. — 3. The division of the year into two seasons is after the manner of the Old Testament ; cf. Gen. viii. 22 ; Ps. Ixxiv. 17 ; Isa. xviii. 6.

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On that day ye will give away your peace for an everlasting curse to all the just, and they will ever curse you as sinners, you together with the sinners.

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But for the chosen there will be light and joy and peace, and they will inherit the earth, but for you, the impious, there will be a curse.

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And then also wisdom will be given to the chosen, and they will all live and not continue to sin ; neither through wickedness nor through pride ; hut they in whom there is wisdom will be humble without continuing to sin.

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And tliey will not be punished all the days of their lives, and will not die througli \)\di^\iQ?> OT judgments o/* wrath, but the number of the days of their lives will be completed, and their lives will become old in peace, and the years of their joy will be many in everlasting happiness and peace, for all the days of their lives. Chapters 1 to 5 contain the author's introduction to his book, i.e. to 1-36 and 72-105. Chap. 1, 1 gives the superscription. The blessing of Enoch is here introduced like the blessing of Moses over Israel before 64 THE BOOK OF ENOCU. his death (Deut. xxxiii. 1). The writer proposes a double object — to announce the blessed condition of the just on the day of the final judgment, and the destruction of the sinners. The former is the more important object ; and therefore he announces it first, and adds the second in a subordinate manner. The reinoval of the sinners is not their annihilation, but, as will soon appear, their removal from the earth to the place of punishment. — 2. Cf. Num. xxiv. 3, 4,

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All flesh shall be judged, Jer. xxv.

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Chap. 2,

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God, who as n-xas ri-ni is the God of the heavenly hosts (cf. Delitzsch, Zeitschrift fur luth. Theol. u. K., 1874, p. 217-222), is here accompanied by his host, who assist in the judgment, 1:9; THE BOOK OF ENOCH 65 10 : 4 ; 90 : 21 ; 100 : 4 ; cf. also 1 Kings xxii. 19 ; Ps. ciii. 21. — 5. Watchers, cf. notes on chap. 12-16. Them, i.e. the inhabitants of the earth; cf. Jer. xxv. 30,

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The designation of God as the Holy and the Great One is strictly confined to this portion of the book, and is found neither in the Parables nor in the Noachic fragments; cf. 10 : 1 ; 14 : 1; 25 : 3; 84 : 1; 92 : 2 ; 97 : 6 ; 98 : 6 ; 104 : 9 ; simply Holy, 93 : 11 ; and Great, 14:2; God of the loorld, 12:3; 81 : 10 ; 84 : 2, and once in the Parables b^ :

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This is the verse that is quoted in a free manner in the Epistle of Jude 14 and