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Title: The book of Enoch
Translator: R. H. Charles
Contributor: W. O. E. Oesterley
Release date: February 14, 2026 [eBook #77935]
Language: English
Original publication: London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917
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The Book of Enoch
TRANSLATIONS OF EARLY DOCUMENTS
SERIES I
PALESTINIAN JEWISH TEXTS
(PRE-RABBINIC)
THE BOOK OF ENOCH
(1 ENOCH)
THE BOOK OF ENOCH
BY
R. H. CHARLES, D.LITT., D.D.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE
REV. W. O. E. OESTERLEY, D.D.
LONDON
S · P · C · K
1962
_First published in 1917_
_Tenth impression, 1962_
_S.P.C.K._
Holy Trinity Church
Marylebone Road
London N.W.1
_Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Company Ltd., Bungay,
Suffolk_
We desire to express our hearty thanks to Canon Charles and the
Delegates of the Oxford University Press for their permission to reprint
here the translation given in their second edition of _The Book of
Enoch_ (1912).
W. O. E. Oesterley.
G. H. Box.
EDITORS’ PREFACE
The object of this series of translations is primarily to furnish
students with short, cheap, and handy text-books, which, it is hoped,
will facilitate the study of the particular texts in class under
competent teachers. But it is also hoped that the volumes will be
acceptable to the general reader who may be interested in the subjects
with which they deal. It has been thought advisable, as a general rule,
to restrict the notes and comments to a small compass; more especially
as, in most cases, excellent works of a more elaborate character are
available. Indeed, it is much to be desired that these translations may
have the effect of inducing readers to study the larger works.
Our principal aim, in a word, is to make some difficult texts, important
for the study of Christian origins, more generally accessible in
faithful and scholarly translations.
In most cases these texts are not available in a cheap and handy form.
In one or two cases texts have been included of books which are
available in the official Apocrypha; but in every such case reasons
exist for putting forth these texts in a new translation, with an
Introduction, in this series.
W. O. E. Oesterley.
G. H. Box.
INTRODUCTION
The Apocalyptic Literature
As the Book of Enoch is, in some respects, the most notable extant
apocalyptic work outside the canonical Scriptures, it will not be
inappropriate to offer a few remarks here on the Apocalyptic Literature
generally. In writing about the books which belong to this literature,
Prof. Burkitt says very pointedly that “they are the most characteristic
survival of what I will venture to call, with all its narrowness and its
incoherence, the heroic age of Jewish history, the age when the nation
attempted to realize in action the part of the peculiar people of God.
It ended in catastrophe, but the nation left two successors, the
Christian Church and the Rabbinical Schools, each of which carried on
some of the old national aims. And of the two it was the Christian
Church that was most faithful to the ideas enshrined in the Apocalypses,
and it did consider itself, not without some reason, the fulfilment of
those ideas. What is wanted, therefore, in studying the Apocalypses is,
above all, sympathy with the ideas that underlie them, and especially
with the belief in the New Age. And those who believe that in
Christianity a new Era really did dawn for us ought, I think, to have
that sympathy.... We study the Apocalypses to learn how our spiritual
ancestors hoped against hope that God would make all right in the end;
and that we, their children, are here to-day studying them is an
indication that their hope was not wholly unfounded.”[1] Hope is,
indeed, the main underlying motive-power which prompted the writers of
the Apocalypses. And this hope is the more intensive and ardent in that
it shines forth from a background which is dark with despair; for the
Apocalyptists despaired of the world in which they lived, a world in
which the godly were of no account, while the wicked seemed too often
triumphant and prosperous. With evil everywhere around, the
Apocalyptists saw no hope for the world as it was; for such a world
there was no remedy, only destruction; if the good were ever to triumph
it must be in a new world. Despairing, therefore, of the world around
them, the Apocalyptists centred their hope upon a world to come, where
the righteous would come to their own and evil would find no place. It
is this thought which underlies the opening words of the Book of Enoch:
“The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and
righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the
wicked and godless are to be removed.” Nowhere in this book is the
essence of this hope more beautifully expressed than in a short metrical
piece in the first chapter:
“But with the righteous He will make peace,
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.
“And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall all be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.
“And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them.” (1 Enoch i. 8).
In all the books belonging to this literature which have come down to us
this hope is expressed more or less vividly; nor is the dark background
wanting, with prophecies of coming wrath. It will, therefore, be
realized that the Apocalyptic Literature is almost wholly concerned with
the future; it is true that again and again the Apocalyptist glances at
the contemporary history of the world around him, to which many a
cryptic reference is made—a fact which necessitates some knowledge of
the history of this period (_circa_ 200 B.C.-A.D. 100) for a full
understanding of the books in question—but these references are only
made with a view to comforting the oppressed and afflicted with the
thought that even the most mighty of earthly powers are shortly to be
overthrown by the advent of the new and glorious era when every
injustice and all the incongruities of life will be done away with. So
that every reference to the present is merely a position taken up from
which to point to the future. Now, since, as we have seen, the
Apocalyptists despair of any bettering of the present world, and
therefore contemplate its destruction as the preliminary of the new
order of things, they look _away_ from this world in their visions of
the future; they conceive of other-worldly forces coming into play in
the reconstitution of things, and of society generally; and since these
_are_ other-worldly forces the supernatural plays a great part in the
Apocalyptic Literature. This supernatural colouring will often strike
the reader of this literature as fantastic, and at times _bizarre_; but
this should not be permitted to obscure the reality which often lies
behind these weird shadows. Mental visions are not always easily
expressed in words; the seer who in a vision has received a message in
some fantastic guise necessarily has the impress upon his mind of what
he has seen when giving his message; and when he describes his vision
the picture he presents is, in the nature of the case, more fantastic to
the ear of the hearer than to the eye of him who saw it. Allowance
should be made for this; especially by us Westerns who are so lacking in
the rich imaginativeness of the Oriental. Our love of literalness
hinders the play of the imagination because we are so apt to
“materialize” a mental picture presented by another. The Apocalypses
were written by and for Orientals, and we cannot do justice to them
unless we remember this; but it would be best if we could get into the
Oriental mind and look at things from that point of view.
Another thing which the reader of the Apocalyptic Literature must be
prepared for is the frequent inconsistency of thought to be found there,
together with variableness of teaching often involving contradiction.
The reason of this is not to be sought simply in the fact that in the
Apocalypses the hand of more than one author is frequently to be
discerned, a fact which would easily account for divergence of views in
one and the same book—no, the chief reason is that, on the one hand, the
minds of the Apocalyptists were saturated with the traditional thoughts
and ideas of the Old Testament, and, on the other, they were eagerly
absorbing the newer conceptions which the spirit of the age had brought
into being. This occasioned a continual conflict of thought in their
minds; the endeavour to harmonize the old and the new would not always
succeed, and in consequence there often resulted a compromise which was
illogical and which presented contradictions. Inconsistency of teaching
on certain points is, therefore, not surprising under the circumstances.
Again, to realize the significance of much that is found in these
Apocalypses one has to reckon with a rigid predestinarianism which was
characteristic of the Apocalyptists as a whole. They started with the
absolute conviction that the whole course of the world, from beginning
to end, both as regards its physical changes and also in all that
concerns the history of nations, their growth and decline, and of every
single individual, was in every respect predetermined by God Almighty
before all time. This belief of the Apocalyptists is well illustrated in
one of the later Apocalypses by these words:
“For He hath weighed the age in the balance,
And by number hath He numbered the seasons;
Neither will He move nor stir things,
Till the measure appointed be fulfilled.”
(ii. (iv.) Esdras iv. 36, 37.)
Thus “the times and periods of the course of the world’s history have
been predetermined by God. The numbers of the years have been exactly
fixed. This was a fundamental postulate of the Apocalyptists, who
devoted much of their energy to calculations, based upon a close study
of prophecy, as to the exact period when history should reach its
consummation ... the underlying idea is predestinarian.”[2] But all
these things, according to the Apocalyptists, were divine secrets hidden
from the beginning of the world, but revealed to God-fearing men to whom
was accorded the faculty of peering into the hidden things of God and of
understanding them; upon these men was laid the privilege and duty of
revealing the divine secrets to others, hence their name of
Apocalyptists or “revealers.” It was because the Apocalyptists believed
so firmly in this power which they possessed of looking into the deep
things of God that they claimed to be able to measure the significance
of what had happened in the past and of what was happening in the
present; and upon the basis of this knowledge they believed that they
also had the power, given them by God, of foreseeing the march of future
events; above all, of knowing when the end of the world would come, a
consummation towards which the whole history of the world had been
tending from the beginning.
In spite of all the mysticism, sometimes of a rather fantastic kind, and
of the frequently supra-mundane vision with which the Apocalyptic
Literature abounds, the Apocalyptists fully realized the need of
practical religion; they were upholders of the Law, the loyal observance
of which they regard as a necessity for all God-fearing men. In this the
Apocalyptists were at one, in principle, with Pharisaism; but their
conception of what constituted loyal observance of the Law differed from
that of the Pharisees, for, unlike these, the Apocalyptists laid all
stress on the spirit of its observance rather than upon the letter.
Characteristic of their attitude here are the words in 1 Enoch v. 4:
“But ye—ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the
Lord,
But ye have turned away, and have spoken proud and hard words
With your impure mouths against His greatness,
O ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.”
And again, in xcix. 2:
“Woe to them that pervert the words of uprightness,
And transgress the eternal Law.”
We do not find in this Literature that insistence on the literal
carrying-out of the minutest precepts of the Law which was
characteristic of Pharisaism. Veneration for the Law is whole-hearted;
it is the real guide of life; punishment awaits those who ignore its
guidance; but the Pharisaic interpretation of the Law and its
requirements is alien to the spirit of the Apocalyptists.
As a whole, the Apocalyptic Literature presents an universalistic
attitude very different from the nationalistic narrowness of the
Pharisees. It is true, the Apocalyptists are not always consistent in
this, but normally they embrace the Gentiles equally with the men of
their own nation in the divine scheme of salvation; and, in the same
way, the wicked who are excluded are not restricted to the Gentiles, but
the Jews equally with them shall suffer torment hereafter according to
their deserts.[3]
The Apocalyptic Literature, as distinct from the Apocalyptic Movement
owing to which it took its rise, began to come into existence about the
period 200-150 B.C.; at any rate, the earliest extant example of this
Literature—the earliest portions of the Book of Enoch—belongs to this
period. Works of an Apocalyptic character continued to be written for
about three centuries; the Second (Fourth) Book of Esdras, one of the
most remarkable Apocalypses, belongs to the end of the first Christian
century, approximately. There are Apocalypses of later date, some of
subordinate interest are of much later date; but the real period of the
Apocalyptic Literature is from about 200 B.C. to about A.D. 100; its
beginnings date, therefore, from a time prior to that great landmark in
Jewish history, the Maccabæan Era.
The Book of Enoch: its Component Parts and their Dates
The Book of Enoch is now usually designated 1 Enoch, to distinguish it
from the later Apocalypse, _The Secrets of Enoch_, known as 2 Enoch. The
former is also called the Ethiopic Enoch, the latter the Slavonic Enoch,
after the languages of the earliest versions extant of each
respectively. No manuscript of the original language of either is known
to be in existence.
According to Canon Charles, the various elements of which our book in
its present form is made up belong to different dates. The following
table will show the dates of the different parts of the book. Canon
Charles believes that these are approximately correct, without
committing himself to the certainty of this in each case:
CHAPTERS
xii.-xxxvi. The oldest
pre-Maccabæan
xciii., xci. 12-17 “The Apocalypse portions
of Weeks.”
vi.-xi., liv. 7-lv. Fragments of Pre-Maccabæan at the
2, lx., lxv.-lxix. “The Book of latest.
25, cvi., cvii. Noah.”
lxxxiii.-xc. “The 165-161 B.C.
Dream-Visions”
lxxii.-lxxxii. “The Book of Before 110 B.C.
the Heavenly
Luminaries.”
xxxvii.-lxxi. “The Parables,” _circa_ 105-64 B.C.
or
“Similitudes.”
xci. 1-11, 18, _circa_ 105-64 B.C.
19-civ.
i.-v. The latest portion,
but pre-Christian.
Chapter cv, which consists of only two verses, cannot be dated; while
cviii. is in the nature of an appendix, probably added subsequently, to
the whole work.
While these dates may be regarded as approximately correct, it should be
pointed out that differences of opinion exist among scholars on the
subject. Schürer holds, for example, that, with the exception of
chapters xxxvii.-lxxi. (the “Parables,” or “Similitudes”), the entire
book belongs to the period 130-100 B.C.; the “Parables” he assigns to a
time not earlier than Herod the Great. Beer thinks that the
“Dream-Visions” (chapters lxxxiii.-xc.) belong to the time of John
Hyrcanus (135-105 B.C.), and he includes under the pre-Maccabæan
portions only xci. 12-17, xcii. xciii. 1-14; and holds that the rest of
the book was written before 64 B.C. Dalman maintains that it cannot be
proved that the important section xxxvii.-lxxi. (the “Similitudes”) is
“the product of the pre-Christian period,” though he fully recognizes
its Jewish character, Burkitt regards the writer as “almost
contemporary” with the philosopher Posidonius (135-51 B.C.). There is
thus some diversity of opinion as to the date of the book among leading
authorities. That it is, as a whole, pre-Christian, may be regarded as
definitely established. More difficult is the question whether any
portions of it are pre-Maccabæan; Charles gives various reasons for his
belief that considerable parts are pre-Maccabæan; we are inclined to
agree with him, though it may be questioned whether the last word on the
subject has been spoken.
Authorship
As the various parts of the book[4] clearly belong to different dates,
diversity of authorship is what one is naturally led to expect; and of
this there can, indeed, be no shadow of doubt. The author of the
earliest portions was a Jew who lived, as Burkitt has shown, in northern
Palestine, in the land of Dan, south-west of the Hermon range, near the
head-waters of the Jordan. This is important, as it tends to show that
the book, or books, is really Palestinian, and one which, therefore,
circulated among Jews in Palestine. “If, moreover, the author came from
the north, that helps to explain the influence the book had upon the
Religion that was cradled in Galilee.”[5] Of the authors of the other
three books of which “Enoch” is made up (viz. “The Dream-Visions,” “The
Book of the Heavenly Luminaries,” and “The Similitudes”) we know nothing
save what can be gathered from their writings as to their religious
standpoint.
Charles holds that though there is not unity of authorship there is,
none the less, uniformity; for, according to him, all the books were
written by _Chassidim_,[6] or by their successors, the Pharisees. This
contention has been strongly assailed and much weakened by Leszynsky in
a recent work on the Sadducees.[7] While frankly recognizing the
composite character of the book, Leszynsky holds that the original
portions of it[8] emanated from Sadducæan circles; and that the special
object of the book originally was the bringing about of a reform of the
calendar. He points to the ascription of the book to _Enoch_ as
supporting his contention, for Enoch lived 365 years,[9] _i. e._ his
years correspond to the number of days in the _solar_ year; the basis of
reckoning time was one of the fundamental points of difference between
the Pharisees and Sadducees, for whereas the former reckoned time by the
_lunar_ year (360 days), the latter did so by the _solar_ year. Here a
significant remark of Burkitt’s is worth recalling; in writing about the
false titles given to all the Apocalyptic books, he says: “There is
another aspect of pseudonymous authorship to which I venture to think
sufficient attention has not been given. It is this, that the names were
not chosen out of mere caprice; they indicated to a certain extent what
subjects would be treated and the point of view of the writer.”[10]
Further, the fact that “Enoch walked with God; and he was not; for God
took him,”[11] _i. e._ that he ascended into the heavens, is also
significant; for he would thereby be just the one to know all about the
heavenly luminaries; he was just the most appropriate author of a book
which was to deal with astronomical questions. “The Sadducæan character
of the original work,” says Leszynsky, “is seen most clearly in the
discussion regarding the calendar; chapters lxxii.—lxxxii. are rightly
called the Book of Astronomy:[12] ‘the book of the courses of the
luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their
classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and
places of origin, and according to their months ... with regard to all
the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is
accomplished which endureth till all eternity’ (lxxii. 1). That sounds
almost as though the author of the Book of Jubilees had written it. That
it is not a merely scientific interest which impels the writer to give
expression to his astronomical theories may be seen from the words at
the conclusion of the section: ‘Blessed are all the righteous, blessed
are all those who walk in the way of righteousness, and sin not as the
sinners in the reckoning of all their days, in which the sun traverseth
the heaven, entering into and departing from the portals for thirty
days...’ (lxxxii. 4-7). Herein one can discern quite clearly the
tendency of the writer. He desires the adoption of the solar year, while
his contemporaries wrongly followed a different reckoning, and therefore
celebrated the feasts at the wrong time. The ‘sinners who sin in the
reckoning of the year’ are the Pharisees; and the righteous ones who are
blessed, the _Zaddîkim_,[13] who walk upon the paths of righteousness
(_Zedek_) as the name is made to imply, are the Sadducees.”[14] The
point may appear small to us, but we may compare with it the
Quartodeciman controversy in the Church during the second century. It
is, at any rate, a strong point in favour of the Sadducæan authorship of
“The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries.”
The pre-Maccabæan portions (assuming that some portions of it _are_
pre-Maccabæan) of the book of Enoch must certainly be ascribed to the
_Chassidim_; but it is not on that account necessary to ascribe _all_
the later portions to the Pharisees. Three points especially militate
against this: some of the teaching concerning the Messiah; the,
generally speaking, universalistic spirit, which is quite un-Pharisaic;
and the attitude towards the Law, which is not that of the Pharisees. It
is not to be denied that some portions (_e. g._ cii. 6 ff.) are from the
hands of Pharisees; nor can it be doubted that the whole collection in
its present form has been worked over by a Pharisee, or Pharisees; but
that all the post-Maccabæan portions in their original form emanated
from Pharisaic circles does not appear to have been proved. It seems
more likely that, with the exceptions already referred to, the various
component parts of the book were written by Apocalyptists who belonged
neither to Pharisaic nor yet to Sadducæan circles.
Language
The Book of Enoch exists only in the Ethiopic Version; this was
translated from the Greek Version, of which only a few portions are
extant.[15] The Latin Version, which was also made from the Greek, is
not extant, with the exception of i. 9, and cvi. 1-18; the fragment
containing these two passages was discovered by the Rev. M. R. James, of
King’s College, Cambridge, in the British Museum. The book was
originally written either in Hebrew or Aramaic; Charles thinks that
chapters vi.-xxxvi., lxxxiii.-xc. were Aramaic, the rest Hebrew. It is,
however, very difficult to say for certain which of these two languages
was really the original, because, as Burkitt says, “most of the most
convincing proofs that the Greek text of Enoch is a translation from a
Semitic language fit equally well with a Hebrew or an Aramaic original”;
his opinion is that Aramaic was the original language, “but that a few
passages do seem to suggest a Hebrew origin, yet not decisively.”[16]
General Contents
The reader who comes to peruse the Book of Enoch for the first time will
find much that appears to him strange and unattractive; he must not,
however, be repelled by this; for in due time he will come to other
parts of the book which he will soon see to be of real value from many
points of view. But even regarding the less attractive parts, he will
find that when these are carefully studied they contain more that is of
interest than appears upon the surface. Unfortunately, the opening
portion (i.—xxxvi.), which is naturally read first, contains a good deal
of the least important parts of the whole book; some passages are even
repellent. It is well to remember the point, already referred to, that
there are at least four quite independent books included in the “Book of
Enoch,” exclusive of certain “Noah” fragments and other pieces (see
below); the student is, therefore, advised to treat these as separate
works, and to read them as such. There is no reason to begin with the
book which happens to come first, especially as the first thirty-six
chapters do not all belong together.[17] But, in any case, it will be
found most useful to have some general idea of the contents of each of
the different books before beginning to read them. For this purpose a
brief _résumé_ of each is given here.
i. _The Book of Enoch_ (chapters xii.-xxxvi.). The book opens with a
Dream-Vision of Enoch. In this dream Enoch is asked to intercede for the
watchers of heaven, _i. e._ the angels, who had left their heavenly home
to commit iniquity with the daughters of men. He writes out the petition
(cp. the title “Enoch the Scribe”) the fallen angels make, and then
retires to await the answer, which comes to him in a series of visions.
These visions are not quite easy to follow; they are evidently
incomplete and somewhat confused; in all probability the text has
suffered in transmission. At any rate, the petition is refused; Enoch
declares to the fallen angels the doom which, as he has been taught in
the visions, is to be their lot; the final words of the message which he
is bidden to give them are: “You have no peace” (xii.-xvi.). There
follow then accounts of the different journeys which Enoch makes, being
conducted by angels of light, through certain parts of the earth, and
through Sheol. After the account of the _first journey_ (xvii.-xix.) a
short enumeration is made of the archangels, seven in number, and their
functions (xx.). In the _second journey_ is described the place of final
punishment of the fallen angels: “This place is the prison of the angels
and here they will be imprisoned for ever.” From thence Enoch is taken
to Sheol; then to the west, where he sees the luminaries of heaven.
After that the angels show him “seven magnificent mountains,” upon one
of which is the throne of God; he sees also the Tree of Life, which is
to be given to the holy and righteous after the great Judgement. From
thence he comes back to the centre of the earth and sees the “blessed
place,” Jerusalem, and the “accursed valley” (xxi.-xxvii.). The book
concludes with what appear to be fragments of other journeys, to the
east, to the north, and to the south. Of special interest here is the
mention of the Garden of Righteousness, and the Tree of Wisdom
(xxviii.-xxxvi.).
Much that is written in these chapters may appear pointless and
uninspiring; but we must bear in mind the purpose that lies behind it
all. The fallen angels were believed to have brought sin on to the
earth; all the wickedness of the world the Apocalyptist traces back to
them. This cause of sin must be wholly destroyed before righteousness
can come truly to its own. Therefore the Apocalyptist has a practical
aim in view when describing in much detail the final place of punishment
of the fallen angels; for here, too, are to come all those who by sin
are the offspring of this race. No less does he delight in telling of
the abode of joy prepared for the righteous. That all these descriptions
were constructed out of the imagination of the Apocalyptist, based
largely, no doubt, upon popular tradition, did not detract from their
practical value for the people of his day. He was a preacher of
righteousness who looked forward in absolute conviction to the final
overthrow of sin; and all his visions have as their motive-power the
yearning for and belief in the triumph of righteousness over sin. One of
a like mind wrote later on, in a kind of preface to his book, these
significant words, which sum up the essence of the teaching of this
book:
And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate, and the children of
the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong
from the face of the earth, and let every evil work come to an end:
and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it shall
prove a blessing: the works of righteousness and truth shall be
planted in truth and joy for evermore.
ii. _The Parables_ (chapters xxxvii.-lxxi.). There are three Parables,
or Similitudes, and they all have as their underlying thought the
destruction of evil and the triumph of righteousness, as in the
preceding book. But here some new and important elements are introduced
which give special value to this book.
The _first parable_ (xxxviii.-xliv.) is a prophecy of coming judgement
upon the wicked, and especially the kings and mighty ones on the earth.
On the other hand, the Apocalyptist sees in his vision the abode and
resting-places of the righteous who are continually praising the “Lord
of Spirits”; this is the usual title given to God in this book. Here
occurs the first mention of the “Elect One” (cp. Luke xxiii. 35). In the
presence of the Lord of Spirits are also the four Archangels and
innumerable companies of other angels. Here he learns many secrets of
the heavens; a fragment on Wisdom (xlii.), which recalls some passages
in Ecclus. xxiv., comes in the middle of the secrets, and is clearly out
of place. The _second parable_ (xlv.-lvii.) continues the same theme and
further develops it. Of special importance is the sitting of the Elect
One on the throne of glory as Judge (xlv. 3), and the mention of His
title, “Son of Man” (xlvi. 2). The thought of the vindication of the
righteous is marred by their joy at vengeance upon the wicked. A
particularly striking passage is chapter xlviii. 1-7, which speaks of
the inexhaustible fountain of righteousness reserved for the holy and
elect in the presence of the Son of Man and of the Lord of Spirits. The
Apocalyptist prophesies further of the repentance of the Gentiles
(chapter l.), an universalistic note of significance, and speaks of the
Resurrection of the dead in a notable passage:
And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been
entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And Hell shall give back that which it owes.
The parable ends with an account of the Judgement, followed by two short
passages on the last struggle of the heathen powers against Israel (lvi.
5-8), and the return from the Dispersion (lvii.), which do not appear to
be in their original place. The _third parable_ (lviii.-lxxi.) has
clearly suffered largely from the intrusion of alien matter, and is
probably incomplete. Its main theme is the final Judgement upon all
flesh, and especially upon the great ones of the earth; the Judge is the
Son of Man. Some of the passages which speak of the future reward of the
righteous are full of beauty; the following is well worth quoting:
And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance.
And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
And they shall be garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
A large Noah fragment comes in the middle of the Parable (see p. xxvi
below). The close of this Parable is contained in lxix. 26-29; the
account of Enoch’s final translation (lxx.), and two of Enoch’s visions
(lxxi.) are out of place.
iii. _The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries_ (chapters
lxxii.-lxxxii.). In lxxiv. 12 it says: “And the sun and the stars bring
in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their
position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with
perfect justice in 364 days.”[18] This gives the key-note of this book,
viz. that time is to be reckoned by the sun, not by the moon (see
further on this the section on Authorship, above). Until we come to
chapter lxxx. this book is uninteresting in the extreme; it purports to
tell in detail of the laws by which the sun, moon, stars and the winds
are governed; they are described by Uriel, “the holy angel,” to the
Apocalyptist. The four quarters of the world, the seven mountains and
the seven rivers are also dealt with. “The author has no other interest
save a scientific one coloured by Jewish conceptions and beliefs.”[19]
It is, however, different when we come to chapter lxxx. 2-8; the whole
tone alters in these verses, in which it is said that owing to the sin
of men the moon and the sun will mislead them. An ethical thought is
thus brought in which is wholly lacking in the previous chapters of this
book; this is also true of chapter lxxxi.; it is probable that neither
of these chapters stood here originally.
Regarding the point of the 364 days to the year which the writer of this
book makes, Charles says that “he did this only through sheer incapacity
for appreciating anything better; for he must have been acquainted with
the solar year of 365¼ days. His acquaintance with the Greek cycles
shows this.... The author’s reckoning of the year at 364 days may be
partly due to his opposition to heathen systems, and partly to the fact
that 364 is divisible by seven, and amounts to fifty-two weeks
exactly.”[20] In any case, he is opposed to the lunar year, the
Pharisaic way of reckoning time; and this is an important point in
favour of Sadducæan authorship. It will be noted that this book was
written in post-Maccabæan times; it was after the Maccabæan struggle
that the Sadducees and Pharisees appeared as parties definitely opposed
to one another.[21]
iv. _The Dream-Visions_ (chapters lxxxiii.-xc.). This book consists of
two dream-visions; the first deals with the judgement brought upon the
world by the deluge on account of sin; the origin of sin is again traced
to the angels who fell. It concludes with a hymn of praise to God in
which a prayer is offered that all flesh may not be destroyed
(lxxxiii.-lxxxiv.). The second dream-vision is much longer; it gives in
brief outline the history of the world to the founding of the Messianic
Kingdom. First, the patriarchs, symbolized by bulls, etc. (lxxxv.); then
the fallen angels, also described in symbolic language, and their
punishment (lxxxvi.-lxxxviii.). The history then proceeds to deal more
specifically with Israel from the time of Noah to the Maccabæan revolt
(lxxxix.-xc. 19). Throughout the dream-vision symbolic language is used;
the faithful in Israel are spoken of as the sheep, while the Gentiles
are symbolized by wild beasts and birds of prey.
The dream-vision concludes with some familiar eschatological notes: the
judgement and condemnation of the wicked; the establishment of the New
Jerusalem; the conversion of the Gentiles, who become subject to Israel;
the gathering-in of the dispersed Israelites; the resurrection of the
righteous dead, and the setting-up of the Messianic Kingdom on the
appearance of the Messiah (xc. 20-38).
v. The _Concluding Section_ of the Book (xcii.-cv.; xci. 1-10, 18, 19
also belong here) is a complete, though short, work; but there are some
obvious interpolations, and it is quite possible that some parts of the
text are dislocated. This makes the understanding of the book difficult;
but if we follow Charles’s guidance here the difficulties will
disappear. He says that this concluding piece has “in some degree
suffered at the hands of the final editor of the book, both in the way
of direct interpolation and of severe dislocations of the text. The
interpolations are: xci. 11, xciii. 11-14, xciv. 7^d, xcvi. 2. The
dislocations of the text are a more important feature of the book. They
are confined (with the exception of xciii. 13-14, and of cvi. 17^a which
should be read immediately after cvi. 14) to xci.-xciii. All critics are
agreed as to the chief of these. xci. 12-17 should undoubtedly be read
directly after xciii.... Taken together xciii. 1-10, xci. 12-17 form an
independent whole—the Apocalypse of Weeks—which has been incorporated in
xci.-civ.... The remaining dislocations need only to be pointed out in
order to be acknowledged. On other grounds we find that xci.-civ. is a
book of different authorship from that of the rest of the sections. Now,
this being so, this section obviously begins with xcii.: ‘Written by
Enoch the Scribe,’ etc. On xcii. follows xci. 1-10, 18, 19 as a natural
sequel, where Enoch summons his children to receive his parting words.
Then comes the Apocalypse of Weeks, xciii. 1-10, xci. 12-17. The
original order of the text, therefore, was: xcii. xci. 1-10, 18, 19,
xciii. 1-10, xci. 12-17, xciv. These dislocations were the work of the
editor, who put the different books of Enoch together, and added lxxx.
and lxxxi.”[22]
This book is concerned with the question of the final reward of the
righteous and the final punishment of the wicked. But a new teaching of
great importance is put forth here. Hitherto it had been taught that
although much incongruity and apparent injustice were to be found on
this earth owing to the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of
the wicked, nevertheless all things would be righted in the world to
come, where the wicked would receive their deserts, and the righteous
would come to their own. In this book it is taught that retribution will
overtake the wicked, and the righteous will have peace and prosperity,
_even on this earth_, with the setting-up of the Messianic Kingdom; and
that at the last there will come, with the final judgement, the
destruction of the former heaven and earth, and the creation of a new
heaven. Then will follow the resurrection of the spirits of the
righteous dead who will live for ever in peace and joy, while the wicked
will perish everlastingly. The important point, which is a development,
is the idea of the punishment of the wicked taking place on this earth,
the very scene of their unrighteous triumphs.
vi. The _Noah Fragments_ (vi.-xi. lvii. 7-lv. 2, lx. lxv.-lxix. 25,
cvi., cvii.). These fragments are not of much importance; the main
topics touched upon are the fall of the angels and sin among men in
consequence; judgement on mankind, _i. e._ the Deluge, and the
preservation of Noah.
The first five chapters are generally held to be as late as any part of
the whole collection; they deal with the punishment hereafter of the
wicked and the blessedness of the righteous. Chapter cviii., which reads
like a final word to the whole collection, touches upon the same theme.
The Importance of the Book for the Study of Christian Origins
This is a subject which cannot be thoroughly appreciated without
studying the book in detail, especially from its doctrinal standpoint,
and seeing in how many aspects it represents the doctrine and the
popular conceptions of the Jews during the two last pre-Christian
centuries. To do this here would involve a far too extended
investigation; it must suffice to indicate a few of the many points
which should be studied; from these it will be seen how important the
book is for the study of Christian origins. Charles says that “the
influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament has been greater than that of
all the other apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books put together”; and
he gives a formidable list of passages in the New Testament which
“either in phraseology or idea directly depend on, or are illustrative
of, passages in 1 Enoch,” as well as a further list showing that various
doctrines in 1 Enoch had “an undoubted share in moulding the
corresponding New Testament doctrines.” These passages should be
studied—and they will be found to be a most interesting study—in
Charles’s work already referred to several times, pp. xcv.-ciii.; and
with these should be read the section on the Theology of the Book of
Enoch, pp. ciii-cx. Another book of great value and interest—also
already quoted—is Burkitt’s _Jewish and Christian Apocalypses_. In
dealing with the subject of 1 Enoch and the Gospels, this writer points
out that the former “contains a serious attempt to account for the
presence of Evil in human history, and this attempt claims our
attention, because it is in essentials the view presupposed in the
Gospels, especially in the Synoptic Gospels. It is when you study
Matthew, Mark, and Luke against the background of the Books of Enoch
that you see them in their true perspective. In saying this I have no
intention of detracting from the importance of what the Gospels report
to us. On the contrary, it puts familiar words into their proper
setting. Indeed, it seems to me that some of the best-known Sayings of
Jesus only appear in their true light if regarded as _Midrash_ upon
words and concepts that were familiar to those who heard the Prophet of
Galilee, though now they have been forgotten by Jew and Christian alike”
(p. 21). He then gives an illustration of this from Matt. xii. 43-45,
Luke xi. 24-26. Of still greater interest are his remarks upon the
relationship between 1 Enoch lxii. and Matt. xxv. 31-46; he believes
that “the Similitudes of Enoch are presupposed in the scene from
Matthew.” The whole of the discussion which follows should be read.
The special points of interest that should be studied in seeking to
realize the importance of these books of Enoch for the study of
Christian origins are the problems of evil, including, of course, the
subjects of dæmonology, and future judgement; the Messiah and the
Messianic Kingdom—the title “Son of Man” is of special importance—and
the Resurrection. There are, of course, other subjects which will
suggest themselves in studying the book.
ABBREVIATIONS, BRACKETS, AND SYMBOLS SPECIALLY USED IN THE TRANSLATION
OF 1 ENOCH
E denotes the Ethiopic Version.
G^s denotes the fragments of the Greek Version preserved in Syncellus:
in the case of 8^b-9^b there are two forms of the text, G^{s1} G^{s2}.
G^g denotes the large fragment of the Greek Version discovered at
Akhmîm, and deposited in the Gizeh Museum, Cairo.
* * * * *
The following brackets are used in the translation of 1 Enoch:
⌜ ⌝. The use of these brackets means that the words so enclosed are
found in G^g but not in E.
〚 〛. The use of these brackets means that the words so enclosed are
found in E but not in G^g or G^s.
‹ ›. The use of these brackets means that the words so enclosed are
restored.
[ ]. The use of these brackets means that the words so enclosed are
interpolations.
( ). The use of these brackets means that the words so enclosed are
supplied by the editor.
The use of =thick type= denotes that the words so printed are emended.
† † = corruption in the text.
A series of points, ... = some words which have been lost.
Footnote 1:
_Jewish and Christian Apocalypses_, pp. 15, 16 (1913).
Footnote 2:
G. H. Box, _The Ezra Apocalypse_, pp. 35, 36 (1912).
Footnote 3:
The general Pharisaic point of view regarding this may be gathered
from Matt. iii. 7-10.
Footnote 4:
Burkitt rightly insists that we should speak of the collection as the
books, not the book, of Enoch.
Footnote 5:
Burkitt, _op. cit._, 28-30.
Footnote 6:
_i. e._ the “Pious ones,” or “Saints.”
Footnote 7:
_Die Sadduzäer_ (1912).
Footnote 8:
_i. e._, according to him, i.-xxxvi., lxxii.-lxxxii., lxxxiii.-xc.,
xci. 12-17, xciii.
Footnote 9:
See Gen. v. 21-23.
Footnote 10:
_Op. cit._, p. 18.
Footnote 11:
Gen. v. 24.
Footnote 12:
_i. e._ “The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries,” as Charles calls it.
Footnote 13:
_i. e._ “the righteous”; a play on the word _Zaddûkim_, the “sons of
Zadok,” _i. e._ the Sadducees.
Footnote 14:
Leszynsky, _op. cit._, pp. 253 ff.
Footnote 15:
Chaps. i.-xxxii. 6, and xix. 3-xxi. 9 in a duplicate form were
discovered at Akhmîm in 1886-1887; vi.-x. 14, xv. 8-xvi. 1, and viii.
4-ix. 4 in a duplicate form, have been preserved in Syncellus; lxxxix.
42-49 occurs in a Greek Vatican MS. (No. 1809); there are also a few
quotations in early Greek ecclesiastical writings; and i. 9, v. 4,
xxvii. 2 are quoted in the Epistle of St. Jude 14, 15.
Footnote 16:
_Op. cit._, p. 27.
Footnote 17:
It is a great pity that one system of chapter-enumeration runs through
the whole volume; if each separate book began with chap. i. it would
be much better. For obvious reasons this cannot be done here; see
Editors’ General Preface.
Footnote 18:
See also lxxxii. 4-6, 11.
Footnote 19:
Charles, _The Book of Enoch_, p. 147 (1912).
Footnote 20:
_Op. cit._, p. 150.
Footnote 21:
For the points of difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees see
the present writer’s _The Books of the Apocrypha, their Origin,
Teaching, and Contents_, chap. vii. (1914).
Footnote 22:
_Op. cit._, p. 218.
THE BOOK OF ENOCH
I-XXXVI.
I-V. _Parable of Enoch on the Future Lot of the Wicked and the
Righteous._
I. 1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect
〚and〛 righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all
the wicked 〚and godless〛 are to be removed. 2. And he took up his
parable and said—Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God,
saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, 〚which〛 the angels showed
me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I
saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to
come. 3. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning
them:
The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
4. And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount
Sinai,
[And appear from His camp]
And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven ⌜of
heavens⌝.
5. And all shall be smitten with fear,
And the Watchers shall quake,
And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of
the earth.
6. And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame
7. And the earth shall be ⌜wholly⌝ rent in sunder,
And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).
8. But with the righteous He will make peace,
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.
And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall ⌜all⌝ be blessed.
⌜And He will help them all⌝,
And light shall appear unto them,
⌜And He will make peace with them⌝.
9. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌜His⌝ holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy ⌜all⌝ the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works ⌜of their ungodliness⌝ which they have ungodly
committed,
⌜And of all the hard things which⌝ ungodly sinners ⌜have spoken⌝
against Him.
II. 1. Observe ye every thing that takes place in the heaven, how they
do not change their orbits, ⌜and⌝ the luminaries which are in the
heaven, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and
transgress not against their appointed order. 2. Behold ye the earth,
and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last,
⌜how =steadfast= they are⌝, how ⌜none of the things upon earth⌝ change,
⌜but⌝ all the works of God appear ⌜to you⌝. 3. Behold the summer and the
winter, 〚how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew
and rain lie upon it〛.
III. Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees 〚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, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the
earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of 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. 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish ⌜and
change not⌝ their tasks ⌜from His commandments⌝.
4. 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
With your impure mouths against His greatness.
Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
5. 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.
6_a._ In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration
unto all the righteous,
_b._ And by you shall ⌜all⌝ who curse, curse.
_c._ ⌜And all⌝ the sinners ⌜and godless⌝ shall imprecate by you,
7_c._ And for you, the godless, there shall be a curse.
6_d._ ⌜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⌝.
7_a._ But for the elect there shall be light and grace 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.
VI-XI. _The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the
Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by
God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom_ (a Noah fragment).
VI. 1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that
in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And
the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and
said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the
children of men and beget us children.’ 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their
leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this
deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ 4. And
they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind
ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this
thing.’ 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual
imprecations upon it. 6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended
⌜in the days⌝ of =Jared= on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called
it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual
imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders:
Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl,
Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl,
Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, =Sariêl=. 8. These are their chiefs
of tens.
VII. 1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves
wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them
and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and
enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose
height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of
men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. The giants turned
against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against
birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s
flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against
the lawless ones.
VIII. 1. And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields,
and breastplates, and made known to them =the metals= ‹of the earth› and
the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of
antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly
stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much
godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray,
and became corrupt in all their ways. 3. Semjâzâ taught enchantments,
and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl,
(taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, =Ezêqêêl the knowledge
of the clouds=, ‹Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of
the sun›, and Sariêl the course of the moon. 4. And as men perished,
they cried, and their cry went up to heaven....
IX. 1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from
heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness
being wrought upon the earth. 2. And they said one to another: ‘The
earth, made †without inhabitant, cries the voice of their crying† up to
the gates of heaven. 3. 〚And now to you, the holy ones of heaven〛, the
souls of men make their suit, saying, “Bring our cause before the Most
High”.’ 4. And they said to the Lord =of the ages=: ‘Lord of lords, God
of gods, King of kings ‹and God of the ages›, the throne of Thy glory
(standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and
glorious and blessed unto all the ages! 5. Thou hast made all things,
and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open
in Thy sight, and all things Thou seest, and nothing can hide itself
from Thee. 6. Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all
unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were
(preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to =learn=: 7. And
Semjâzâ, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his
associates. 8. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the
earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and
revealed to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women have borne giants,
and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and
unrighteousness. 10. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died
are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their
lamentations have ascended: and cannot =cease= because of the lawless
deeds which are wrought on the earth. 11. And Thou knowest all things
before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost
suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in
regard to these.’
X. 1. Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent
=Uriel= to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 2. ‘‹Go to Noah and› tell
him in my name “Hide thyself!”, and reveal to him the end that is
approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is
about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.
3. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved
for all the generations of the world.’ 4. And again the Lord said to
Raphael: ‘Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and
make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein.
5. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with
darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he
may not see light. 6. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be
cast into the fire. 7. And heal the earth which the angels have
corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the
plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the
secret things that the Watchers have =disclosed= and have taught their
sons. 8. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that
were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’ 9. And to Gabriel said
the Lord: ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against
the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication
and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men: [and cause them to
go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each
other in battle: for length of days shall they not have. 10. And no
request that they (_i. e._ their fathers) make of thee shall be granted
unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal
life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.’ 11. And
the Lord said unto Michael: ‘Go, =bind= Semjâzâ and his associates who
have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with
them in all their uncleanness. 12. And, when their sons have slain one
another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind
them fast for seventy generations in the =valleys= of the earth, till
the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement
that is for ever and ever is consummated. 13. In those days they shall
be led off to the abyss of fire: ‹and› to the torment and the prison in
which they shall be confined for ever. 14. And whosoever shall be
=condemned= and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with
them to the end of all generations. 15. And destroy all the spirits of
the reprobate, and the children of the Watchers, because they have
wronged mankind. 16. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth, and
let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness
and truth appear: ⌜and it shall prove a blessing: the works of
righteousness and truth⌝ shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.
17. And then shall all the righteous escape,
And shall live till they beget thousands of children,
And all the days of their youth and their =old age= shall they
complete in peace.
18. And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall
all be planted with trees and be full of blessing. 19. And all desirable
trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the
vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for
all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a
thousand, and each measure of olives shall 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 all the
uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth.
21. ⌜And all the children of men shall become righteous⌝, and all
nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship
Me. 22. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from
all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never
again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.
XI. 1. 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. And truth and peace shall
be associated together throughout all the days of the world and
throughout all the generations =of men=.’
XII-XVI. _Dream Vision of Enoch: his intercession for Azâzêl and the
fallen Angels: and his announcement to them of their first and final
doom._
XII. 1. Before these things 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 his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days
were with the holy ones.
3. And I, Enoch, was blessing the Lord of =majesty= and the King of the
ages, and lo! the Watchers called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: 4.
‘Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, †declare† to the Watchers of
the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and
have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of
earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: “Ye have wrought great
destruction on the earth: 5. And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness
of sin: and inasmuch as †they† delight themselves in †their† children,
6. The murder of †their† beloved ones shall †they† see, and over the
destruction of †their† children shall †they† lament, and shall make
supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”’
XIII. 1. And Enoch went and said: ‘Azâzêl, thou shalt have no peace: a
severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds: 2. And
thou shalt not have toleration nor †request† granted to thee, because of
the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works
of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to
men.’ 3. Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all
afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. 4. And they besought me to
draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to
read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven. 5. For from
thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their eyes to
heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned. 6.
Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer †in regard to their
spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests
that they should have forgiveness and length ‹of days›†. 7. And I went
off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south
of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell asleep. 8. And
behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw
visions of chastisement, ⌜and a voice came bidding (me)⌝ to tell it to
the sons of heaven, and reprimand them. 9. And when I awaked, I came
unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in
’Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and Sênêsêr, with their faces
covered. 10. And I recounted before them all the visions which I had
seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to
reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
XIV. 1. The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of
the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great
One in that vision. 2. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a
tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has
given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart. 3. As
He hath created and given 〚to man the power of understanding the word of
wisdom, so hath He created me also and given〛 me the power of
reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven. 4. I wrote out your
petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not
be granted unto you 〚throughout all the days of eternity, and that
judgement has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not
be granted unto you〛. 5. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into
heaven unto all eternity, and ⌜in bonds⌝ of the earth the decree has
gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. 6. And (that)
previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and
you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by
the sword. 7. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted,
nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and =speak all the
words= contained in the writing which I have written. 8. And the vision
was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist
summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and
=hastened= me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted
me upward, and bore me into heaven. 9. And I went in till I drew nigh to
a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and
it began to affright me. 10. And I went into the tongues of fire and
drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of
the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its
groundwork was of crystal. 11. Its ceiling was like the path of the
stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and
their heaven was (clear as) water. 12. A flaming fire surrounded the
walls, and its portals blazed with fire. 13. And I entered into that
house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there were no delights of
life therein: fear covered me, and trembling gat hold upon me. 14. And
as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision,
15. And lo! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the
entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire.
16. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence
and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent.
17. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path
of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. 18. And I looked
and saw 〚therein〛 a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the
wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the =vision= of
cherubim. 19. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming
fire so that I could not look thereon. 20. And the Great Glory sat
thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter
than any snow. 21. None of the angels could enter and could behold His
face by reason of the magnificence and glory, and no flesh could behold
Him. 22. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood
before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times ten
thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counsellor. 23. And the
most holy ones who were nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart
from Him. 24. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling:
and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ‘Come hither,
Enoch, and hear my word.’ 25. ⌜And one of the holy ones came to me and
waked me⌝, and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my
face downwards.
XV. 1. And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: ‘Fear not,
Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither
and hear my voice. 2. And go, say to 〚the Watchers of heaven〛, who have
sent thee to intercede 〚for them: “You should intercede〛 for men, and
not men for you: 3. Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal
heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters
of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of
earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons. 4. And though ye were holy,
spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the
blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh,
and, =as the children= of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as
those ⌜also⌝ do who die and perish. 5. Therefore have I given them wives
also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that
thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 6. But you were
⌜formerly⌝ spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all
generations of the world. 7. And therefore I have not appointed wives
for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their
dwelling. 8. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and
flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth
shall be their dwelling. 9. Evil spirits have proceeded from their
bodies; because they are born from =men=, 〚and〛 from the holy Watchers
is their beginning and primal origin; ⌜they shall be evil spirits on
earth, and⌝ evil spirits shall they be called. [10. As for the spirits
of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of
the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their
dwelling.] 11. And the spirits of the giants =afflict=, oppress,
destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause
trouble: they take no food, ⌜but nevertheless hunger⌝ and thirst, and
cause offences. 12. And these spirits shall rise up against the children
of men and against the women, because they have proceeded ⌜from them⌝.
XVI. 1. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death ⌜of the
giants⌝, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth,
shall destroy without incurring judgement—thus shall they destroy until
the day of the consummation, the great ⌜judgement⌝ in which the age
shall be consummated over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be
wholly consummated.” 2. And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to
intercede for them, who had been 〚aforetime〛 in heaven, (say to them):
3. “You have been in heaven, but ⌜all⌝ the mysteries had not yet been
revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness
of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these
mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.” 4. Say to them
therefore: “You have no peace.”’
XVII-XXXVII. _Enoch’s Journeys through the Earth and Sheol._
XVII-XIX. _The First Journey._
XVII. 1. And they took ⌜and⌝ brought me to a place in which those who
were there were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared
as men. 2. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a
mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. 3. And I saw the
places of the luminaries ⌜and the treasuries of the stars⌝ and of the
thunder, ⌜and⌝ in the =uttermost depths=, where were a fiery bow and
arrows and their quiver, 〚and a fiery sword〛 and all the lightnings. 4.
And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west,
which receives every setting of the sun. 5. And I came to a river of
fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the
great sea towards the west. 6. I saw the great rivers and came to the
great ⌜river and to the great⌝ darkness, and went to the place where no
flesh walks. 7. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the
place whence all the waters of the deep flow. 8. I saw the mouths of all
the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
XVIII. 1. I saw the treasuries of all the winds; I saw how He had
furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the
earth. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds
which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. 3. 〚And I saw
how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven〛, and have their station
between heaven and earth: 〚these are the pillars of the heaven〛. 4. I
saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the
sun and all the stars to their setting. 5. I saw the winds on the earth
carrying the clouds: I saw 〚the paths of the angels: I saw〛 at the end
of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. 6. And I proceeded and
saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains
of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the
south. 7. And as for those towards the east ‹one› was of coloured stone,
and one of pearl, and one of =jacinth=, and those towards the south of
red stone. 8. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of
God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire. 9. And
I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains 10. is a region, the
end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. 11. And I saw
a deep abyss, with columns 〚of heavenly fire, and among them I saw
columns〛 of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the
height and towards the depth. 12. And beyond that abyss I saw a place
which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth
beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste
and horrible place. 13. I saw there seven stars like great burning
mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, 14. The angel
said: ‘This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a
prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15. And the stars which
roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of
the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come
forth at their appointed times. 16. And He was wroth with them, and
bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even)
⌜for ten thousand years⌝.’
XIX. 1. And Uriel said to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who have
connected themselves with women, and their spirits, assuming many
different forms, are defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into
sacrificing to demons 〚as gods〛, (here shall they stand), till 〚the day
of〛 the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made
an end of. 2. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall
become sirens.’ 3. And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all
things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
XX. _Names and Functions of the Seven Archangels._
XX. 1. And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2. Uriel,
one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3.
Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4.
Raguel, one of the holy angels who †takes vengeance on† the world of the
luminaries. 5. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set
over the best part of mankind 〚and〛 over chaos. 6. Saraqâêl, one of the
holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7.
Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents
and the Cherubim. 8. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over
those who rise.
XXI-XXXVI. _The Second Journey of Enoch._
XXI. _Preliminary and final place of punishment of the fallen angels
(stars)._
XXI. 1. And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. 2. And I saw there
something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded
earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3. And there I saw seven stars
of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning
with fire. 4. Then I said: ‘For what sin are they bound, and on what
account have they been cast in hither?’ 5. Then said Uriel, one of the
holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: ‘Enoch,
why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? 6. These are of
the number of the stars ⌜of heaven⌝ which have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the
time entailed by their sins, are consummated.’ 7. And from thence I went
to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I
saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the
place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending
columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could
I conjecture. 8. Then I said: ‘How fearful is the place and how terrible
to look upon!’ 9. Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was
with me, and said unto me: ‘Enoch, why hast thou such fear and
affright?’ And I answered: ‘Because of this fearful place, and because
of the spectacle of the pain.’ 10. And he said 〚unto me〛: ‘This place is
the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.’
XXII. _Sheol, or the Underworld._
XXII. 1. And thence I went to another place, and he showed me in the
west ⌜another⌝ great and high mountain [and] of hard rock.
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2. And there was in it †four† =hollow= places, deep and
wide and very smooth. †How† smooth are =the hollow
places= and deep and dark to look at.
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2. And there were †four† hollow places in it, deep
and very smooth: †three† of them were dark and one
bright; and there was a fountain of water in its
midst. And I said: ‘†How† smooth are these hollow
places, and deep and dark to view.’
3. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and
said unto me: ‘These hollow places have been created for this very
purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble
therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble
here. 4. And these places =have been made= to receive them till the day
of their judgement and till their appointed period [till the period
appointed], till the great judgement (comes) upon them.’
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5. I saw the spirits of the children of men who were
dead, and their voice went forth to heaven and made suit.
6. Then I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I
said unto him: ‘This spirit—whose is it whose voice goeth
forth and maketh suit?’
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5. I saw ‹the spirit of› =a dead man= making suit,
and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. 6.
And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I
said unto him: ‘This spirit which maketh suit, whose
is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to
heaven?’
7. And he answered me saying: ‘This is the spirit which went forth from
Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till
his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is
annihilated from amongst the seed of men.’
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8. Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the
_hollow places_: ‘Why is one separated from the other?’
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8. Then I asked regarding all the =hollow places=:
‘Why is one separated from the other?’
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9. And he answered me and said unto me: ‘These three
have been made that the spirits of the dead might be
separated. And such a division has been made ‹for› the
spirits of the righteous, in which there is the =bright=
spring of water. 10. =And= such has been made for sinners
when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement
has not been executed on them in their lifetime. 11. Here
their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till
the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of
those who †curse† for ever, and retribution for their
spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. 12. And such
a division has been made for the spirits of those who
make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their
destruction, when they were slain in the days of the
sinners. 13. Such has been made for the spirits of men
who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in
transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be
companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the
day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.’
14. Then I blessed the Lord of glory and said: ‘Blessed
be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness who ruleth for
ever.’
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9. And he answered me saying: ‘These three have
been made that the spirits of the dead might be
separated. And =this= division has been made for the
spirits of the righteous, in which there is the
bright spring of water. 10. And =this= has been made
for sinners when they die and are buried in the
earth and judgement has not been executed upon them
in their lifetime. 11. Here their spirits shall be
set apart in this great pain, till the great day of
judgement, scourgings, and torments of the accursed
for ever, =so that= (there may be) retribution for
their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever.
12. And =this= division has been made for the
spirits of those who make their suit, who make
disclosures concerning their destruction, when they
were slain in the days of the sinners. 13. And
=this= has been made for the spirits of men who
shall not be righteous but sinners, who are godless,
and of the lawless they shall be companions: but
their spirits shall not be punished in the day of
judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.’ 14.
Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and said: ‘Blessed
art Thou, Lord of righteousness, who rulest over the
world.’
XXIII. _The Fire that deals with the Luminaries of Heaven._
XXIII. 1. From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of
the earth. 2. And I saw a 〚burning〛 fire which ran without resting, and
paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3. And I
asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’ 4. Then Raguel, one of the
holy angels who was with me, answered me 〚and said unto me〛: ‘This
course ⌜of fire⌝ 〚which thou hast seen〛 is the fire in the west which
†persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.’
XXIV. XXV. _The Seven Mountains in the North-West and the Tree of Life._
XXIV. 1. 〚And from thence I went to another place of the earth〛, and he
showed me a mountain range of fire which burnt 〚day and〛 night. 2. And I
went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each
from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful,
magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: 〚three
towards〛 the east, 〚one〛 founded on the other, and three towards the
south, 〚one〛 upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which
joined with any other. 3. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of
these, and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of a throne:
and fragrant trees encircled the throne. 4. And amongst them was a tree
such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were
others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves
and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit 〚is beautiful,
and its fruit〛 resembles the dates of a palm. 5. Then I said: ‘⌜How⌝
beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its
blooms 〚very〛 delightful in appearance.’ 6. Then answered Michael, one
of the holy 〚and honoured〛 angels who was with me, and was their leader,
XXV. 1. And he said unto me: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the
fragrance of the tree, and ⌜why⌝ dost thou wish to learn the truth?’ 2.
Then I answered him, 〚saying〛: ‘I wish to know about everything, but
especially about this tree.’ 3. And he answered, saying: ‘This high
mountain 〚which thou hast seen〛, whose summit is like the throne of God,
is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal
King will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with goodness.
4. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till
the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring
(everything) to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the
righteous and holy. 5. Its fruit =shall be= for food to the elect: it
shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the
Eternal King.
6. Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad.
And into the holy place shall they enter;
And its fragrance shall be in their bones,
And they shall live a long life on earth,
Such as thy fathers lived:
And in their days shall no 〚sorrow or〛 plague
Or torment or calamity touch them.’
7. Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared
such things for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to
give to them.
_Jerusalem and the Mountains, Ravines, and Streams._
XXVI. 1. And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a
blessed place ⌜in which there were trees⌝ with branches abiding and
blooming [of a dismembered tree]. 2. And there I saw a holy mountain,
〚and〛 underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it
flowed towards the south. 3. And I saw towards the east another mountain
higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also
ran a stream ⌜underneath⌝ the mountain. 4. And to the west thereof there
was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and
a ravine ⌜deep and dry⌝ between them: and another deep and dry ravine
was at the extremities of the three ⌜mountains⌝. 5. And all the ravines
were deep 〚and narrow〛, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not
planted upon them. 6. And I marvelled 〚at the rocks, and I marvelled〛 at
the ravine, yea, I marvelled very much.
XXVII. _The Purpose of the Accursed Valley._
XXVII. 1. Then said I: ‘For what object is this blessed land, which is
entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley 〚between?〛’ 2.
〚Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said:
‘This〛 valley is for those who are accursed for ever: here shall all
⌜the accursed⌝ be gathered together who utter with their lips against
the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things.
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Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be
their place of judgement. 3. In the last days there shall
be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the
presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the
merciful bless the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King.
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Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall
be the place of their habitation. 3. In the last
times, in the days of the true judgement in the
presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the
=godly= bless the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King.
4. In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for
the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them (their lot).’ 5.
Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His ⌜glory⌝ and lauded
Him gloriously.
XXVIII-XXXIII. _Further Journey to the East._
XXVIII. 1. And thence I went 〚towards the east〛, into the midst 〚of the
mountain range〛 of the desert, and I saw a wilderness and it was
solitary, full of trees =and plants=. 2. 〚And〛 water gushed forth from
above. 3. Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the
north-west it caused =clouds= and dew to ascend on every side.
XXIX. 1. And thence I went to another place in the desert, and
approached to the east of this mountain range. 2. And 〚there〛 I saw
=aromatic= trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and
the trees also were similar to the almond tree.
XXX. 1. And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another
place, a valley (full) of water. 2. And ⌜therein there was⌝ a tree, the
colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic. 3. And on the sides of
those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to
the east.
XXXI. 1. And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were ⌜groves of⌝
trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara
and galbanum. 2. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain ⌜to
the east of the ends of the earth⌝, 〚whereon were aloe trees〛, and all
the trees were full =of stacte=, being like almond trees. 3. And when
one =burnt= it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
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XXXII. 1. And after these fragrant odours, as I looked
towards the north over the mountains I saw seven
mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and
cinnamon and pepper.
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XXXII. 1. To the north-east I beheld seven mountains
full of choice nard and mastic and cinnamon and
pepper.
2. And thence I went over the summits of ⌜all⌝ these mountains, far
towards the east ⌜of the earth⌝, and passed above the Erythraean sea,
and went far from it, and passed over 〚the angel〛 Zotîêl.
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3. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and saw
beyond those trees many large trees growing there and of
goodly fragrance, large, very beautiful and glorious, and
the tree of wisdom whereof they eat and know great
wisdom.
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3. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and
from afar off trees more numerous than these trees
and great—†two† trees there, very great, beautiful,
and glorious, and magnificent, and the tree of
knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great
wisdom.
4. ⌜That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are⌝ like (those
of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very
beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. 5. Then I
said: ‘⌜How⌝ beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!’ 6.
Then Raphael, the holy angel who was with me, answered me 〚and said〛:
‘This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy
aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom
and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they
were driven out of the garden.’
XXXIII. 1. And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there
great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also
differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the
other. 2. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth
whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. 3. And I
saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of
which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual
star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses
and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy
angel who was with me showed me. 4. He showed all things to me and wrote
them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and
their companies.
XXXIV. XXXV. _Enoch’s Journey to the North._
XXXIV. 1. And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the
earth, and there I saw a great and glorious device at the ends of the
whole earth. 2. And here I saw three portals of heaven open in the
heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there
is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. 3. And out of one portal they
blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, †it is
with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow with violence.†
XXXV. And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth,
and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the
†east†, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.
XXXVI. _The Journey to the South._
XXXVI. 1. And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth,
and saw there three open portals of the heaven: and thence there come
dew, rain, †and wind†. 2. And from thence I went to the east to the ends
of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and
small portals above them. 3. Through each of these small portals pass
the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which
is shown to them. 4. And as often as I saw I blessed always the Lord of
Glory, and I continued to bless the Lord of Glory who has wrought great
and glorious wonders, to show the greatness of His work to the angels
and to =spirits= and to men, that they might praise His work and all His
creation: that they might see the work of His might and praise the great
work of His hands and bless Him for ever.
THE PARABLES.
XXXVII-LXXI.
XXXVII. 1. The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom—which
Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, the
son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw. 2. And this is the
beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and
say to those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye
that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the
Lord of Spirits. 3. It were better to declare (them only) to the men of
old time, but even from those that come after we will not withhold the
beginning of wisdom. 4. Till the present day such wisdom has never been
given =by= the Lord of Spirits as I have received according to my
insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom
the lot of eternal life has been given to me. 5. Now three parables were
imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice and recounted them to those
that dwell on the earth.
XXXVIII-XLIV. =The First Parable.=
XXXVIII. _The Coming Judgement of the Wicked._
1. The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth,
2. And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the
righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on
the earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of
Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.
3. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the
sinners judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be
powerful and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits =has caused His light to appear=
On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
5. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
6. And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the
Lord of Spirits:
For their life is at an end.
XXXIX. _The Abode of the Righteous and of the Elect One: the Praises of
the Blessed._
XXXIX. [1. And it †shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy
children †will descend from the high heaven, and their seed †will become
one with the children of men. 2. And in those days Enoch received books
of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]
And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
3. And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And set me down at the end of the heavens.
4. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And the resting-places of the righteous.
5. Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And their resting-places with the holy.
And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of
men.
And righteousness flowed before them as water,
And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
6 _a._ And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of
righteousness and of faith,
7 _a._ And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of
Spirits.
6 _b._ And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for
ever and ever.
7 _b._ And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be †strong†
as fiery lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And their lips shall extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before Him].
8. There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:
And there heretofore hath been my portion,
For so hath it been established concerning me before the Lord of
Spirits.
9. In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits
with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and
glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. 10. For a
long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised
Him, saying: ‘Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning
and for evermore. 11. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows
before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from
generation unto generation. 12. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they
stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy,
holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”’
13. And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him
and bless and say: ‘Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord
for ever and ever.’ 14. And my face was changed; for I could no longer
behold.
XL. XLI. 2. _The Four Archangels._
XL. 1. And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand
times ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who
stood before the Lord of Spirits. 2. And on the four sides of the Lord
of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not,
and I learnt their names: for the angel who went with me made known to
me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.
3. And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered
praises before the Lord of glory. 4. The first voice blesses the Lord of
Spirits for ever and ever. 5. And the second voice I heard blessing the
Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. 6. And
the third voice I heard =pray and intercede= for those who dwell on the
earth and =supplicate= in the name of the Lord of Spirits. 7. And I
heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to
come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth.
8. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me
everything that is hidden: ‘Who are these four presences which I have
seen and whose words I have heard and written down?’ 9. And he said to
me: ‘This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the
second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the
children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the
powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto
hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’ 10. And these
are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard
in those days.
XLI. 1. And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the
kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the
balance. 2. And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions
of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from
thence which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged
off: and they could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds
from the Lord of Spirits.
XLI. 3-9. _Astronomical Secrets._
3. And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the
thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over
the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I saw from
whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the
dusty earth. 4. And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds
are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist,
and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the
beginning of the world. 5. And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon,
whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious
return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit,
and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their
orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each
other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together. 6.
And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the
commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and
ever. 7. And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the
moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day
and by night—the one holding a position opposite to the other before the
Lord of Spirits.
And they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
8. For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous,
And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,
Who made a separation between the light and the darkness,
And divided the spirits of men,
And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,
In the name of His righteousness.
9. For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints
a judge for them all and he judges them all before Him.
XLII. _The Dwelling-places of Wisdom and of Unrighteousness._
XLII. 1. Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
2. Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place
And took her seat among the angels.
3. And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:
Whom she sought not she found,
And dwelt with them,
As rain in a desert,
And dew on a thirsty land.
XLIII. XLIV. _Astronomical Secrets._
XLIII. 1. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw
how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. 2.
And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their
proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of
their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I
saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how)
they keep faith with each other. 3. And I asked the angel who went with
me who showed me what was hidden: ‘What are these?’ 4. And he said to
me: ‘The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit.
‘their parable’): these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth
and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’
XLIV. Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how
some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their
new form.
XLV-LVII. =The Second Parable.=
_The Lot of the Apostates: the New Heaven and the New Earth._
XLV. 1. And this is the Second Parable concerning those who deny the
name of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
2. And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
3. On that day Mine Elect, One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall =try= their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine
elect ones,
And those who have called upon My glorious name:
4. Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and
light,
5. And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6. For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones,
And have caused them to dwell before Me:
But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
XLVI. _The Head of Days and the Son of Man._
XLVI. 1. And there I saw One, who had a head of days,
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance
of a man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2. And I asked the =angel= who went with me and showed me all the hidden
things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and)
why he went with the Head of Days? 3. And he answered and said unto me:
This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in
uprightness for ever.
4. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
Shall †raise up† the kings and the mighty from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners;
5. [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms]
Because they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
6. And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.
And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7. And these are they who †judge† the stars of heaven,
[And raise their hands against the Most High],
†And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it†.
And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,
And their power rests upon their riches,
And their faith is in the †gods† which they have made with their
hands,
And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,
8. And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
XLVII. _The Prayer of the Righteous for Vengeance and their Joy at its
coming._
XLVII. 1. And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the
righteous.
And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of
Spirits.
2. In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice
And supplicate and pray [and praise,
And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits]
On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the
Lord of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto them,
And that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3. In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon
the throne of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened before Him:
And all His host which is in heaven above and
His counsellors stood before Him,
4. And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because the number of the righteous =had been offered=,
And the prayer of the righteous had been heard,
And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of
Spirits.
XLVIII. _The Fount of Righteousness: the Son of Man—the Stay of the
Righteous: Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty._
XLVIII. 1. And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness,
Which was inexhaustible:
And around it were many fountains of wisdom;
And all the thirsty drank of them,
And were filled with wisdom,
And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
2. And at that hour that Son of Man was named
In the presence of the Lord of Spirits,
And his name before the Head of Days.
3. Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,
Before the stars of the heaven were made,
His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
4. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves
and not fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
5. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of
Spirits.
6. And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,
Before the creation of the world and for evermore.
7. And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the
holy and righteous;
For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous;
Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,
And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of
Spirits:
For in his name they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their
life.
8. In those days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the
earth have become,
And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their
hands;
For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be
able to) save themselves,
9. And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the
righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.
10. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the
earth,
And before them they shall fall and not rise again:
And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise
them:
For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
XLIX. _The Power and Wisdom of the Elect One._
XLIX. 1. For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for evermore.
2. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,
And his glory is for ever and ever,
And his might unto all generations.
3. And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of might,
And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
4. And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;
For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His
good pleasure.
L. _The Glorification and Victory of the Righteous: the Repentance of
the Gentiles._
L. 1. And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and
elect,
And the light of days shall abide upon them,
And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,
2. On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured
up against the sinners.
And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of
Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness (this),
That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.
3. They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of
Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.
4. And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not
maintain itself:
At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
5. And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the Lord
of Spirits.
LI. _The Resurrection of the Dead, and the Separation by the Judge of
the Righteous and the Wicked._
LI. 1. And in those days shall the earth also give back that which
has been entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it owes.
5 _a._ For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2. And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3. And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and
counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified
him.
4. And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with
joy.
5 _b._ And the earth shall rejoice,
_c._ And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
_d._ And the elect shall walk thereon.
LII. _The Seven Metal Mountains and the Elect One._
[Only six are mentioned; see Charles’ note in his large edition.—EDD.]
LII. 1. And after those days in that place where I had seen all the
visions of that which is hidden—for I had been carried off in a
whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west— 2. There mine eyes saw
all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a
mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold,
and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
3. And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, ‘What things are
these which I have seen in secret?’ 4. And he said unto me: ‘All these
things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed
that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.’
5. And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: ‘Wait a little and
there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things, which surround
the Lord of Spirits.
6. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, The mountain of
iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the
mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One,
As wax before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon those
mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
7. And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8. And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
9. And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the
surface of the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of
Spirits.’
LIII. LIV. 6. _The Valley of Judgement: the Angels of Punishment: the
Communities of the Elect One._
LIII. 1. There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who
dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and
presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become
full.
2. And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly =oppress=:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of
Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,
And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3. For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing
all the instruments of Satan. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went
with me: ‘For whom are they preparing these instruments?’ 5. And he said
unto me: ‘They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth,
that they may thereby be destroyed.
6. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of
his congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in
the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7. And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his
righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.’
LIV. 1. And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw
there a deep valley with burning fire. 2. And they brought the kings and
the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3. And there
mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of
immeasurable weight. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me,
saying: ‘For whom are these chains being prepared?’ 5. And he said unto
me: ‘These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they may
take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and
they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits
commanded.
6. And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of
them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning
furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their
unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those
who dwell on the earth.’
LIV. 7-LV. 2. _Noachic Fragment on the first World Judgement._
7. ‘And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits,
and He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens,
and of the fountains which are beneath the earth. 8. And all the waters
shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the
masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. 9.
And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell
under the ends of the heaven. 10. And =when= they have recognized their
unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these
shall they perish.’
LV. 1. And after that the Head of Days repented and said: ‘In vain have
I destroyed all who dwell on the earth.’ 2. And He sware by His great
name: ‘Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I
will set a sign in the heaven: and this shall be a pledge of good faith
between Me and them for ever, so long as heaven is above the earth. And
this is in accordance with My command.’
LV. 3-LVI. 4. _Final Judgement of Azâzêl, the Watchers and their
children._
3. ‘When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels
on the day of tribulation and pain =because of= this, I will cause My
chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith God, the Lord of
Spirits. 4. Ye †mighty kings† who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to
behold Mine Elect One, how he sits on the throne of glory and judges
Azâzêl, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the
Lord of Spirits.’
LVI. 1. And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and
they held scourges and chains of iron and bronze. 2. And I asked the
angel of peace who went with me, saying: ‘To whom are these who hold the
scourges going?’ 3. And he said unto me: ‘To their elect and beloved
ones that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.
4. And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and
beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be
reckoned.
LVI. 5-8. _Last struggle of heathen Powers against Israel._
5. And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come
upon them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6. And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect
ones,
[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a
threshing-floor and a highway]:
7. But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their
horses.
And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.
8. In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein,
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.’
LVII. _The Return from the Dispersion._
LVII. 1. And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of
wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east,
and from the west to the south. 2. And the noise of their wagons was
heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven
remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place,
and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other,
in one day. 3. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of
Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.
LVIII-LXXI. =The Third Parable.=
LVIII. _The Blessedness of the Saints._
LVIII. 1. And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the
righteous and elect.
2. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.
3. And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun,
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.
4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the
Lord of Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal
Lord.
5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage
of faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.
6. And there shall be a light that never =endeth=,
And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of
Spirits.
LIX. _The Lights and the Thunder._
[LIX. 1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and
of the lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ‘their judgement’):
and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits
willeth. 2. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it
resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused
me to see the =judgements= executed on the earth, whether they be for
well-being and blessing, or for a curse, according to the word of the
Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the secrets of the lights and
lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for
satisfying.]
LX. =Book of Noah—a Fragment.=
_Quaking of the Heaven: Behemoth and Leviathan: the Elements._
LX. 1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth
day of the month in the life of †Enoch†. In that Parable I saw how a
mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the
Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times
ten thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the Head of
Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous
stood around Him.
3. And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
4. And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised
me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not
been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the
quaking of the heaven. 5. And Michael said unto me: ‘Why art thou
disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His
mercy; and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who
dwell on the earth. 6. And when the day, and the power, and the
punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath
prepared for those who worship not the righteous =law=, and for those
who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in
vain—that day is prepared; for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an
inquisition.
5. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it
shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not
come in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the
children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place
according to His mercy and His patience.’
7. And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named
Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of
the waters. 8. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his
breast a waste wilderness named †Dûidâin†, on the east of the garden
where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up,
the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created.
9. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of
those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into
the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the
wilderness. 10. And he said to me: ‘Thou son of man, herein thou dost
seek to know what is hidden.’
11. And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden
told me, what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath
the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the
foundation of the heaven. 12. And the chambers of the winds, and how the
winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the =portals= of
the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the
power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is
fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names, and
how all the divisions are divided. 13. And the thunders according to the
places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the
lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once
obey. 14. For the thunder has †places of rest† (which) are assigned (to
it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are
inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together
through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when the lightning
lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause
during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of
their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held
in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed
forward according to the many quarters of the earth. 16. And the spirit
of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his
strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven
forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth. 17. And the
spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is
a good angel. 18. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken (his chamber)
on account of his strength—there is a special spirit therein, and that
which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is frost. 19. And the
spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has
a special chamber; for its course is †glorious† both in light and in
darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel.
20. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the
heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course
is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are
connected, and the one gives to the other. 21. And when the spirit of
the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the
chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it
unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the
water on the earth.... 22. For the waters are for those who dwell on the
earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is
in heaven: therefore there is a measure for the rain, and the angels
take it in charge. 23. And these things I saw towards the Garden of the
Righteous. 24. And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: ‘These
two monsters, prepared, conformably to the greatness of God, shall
feed....’
LXI. _Angels go off to measure Paradise: the Judgement of the Righteous
by the Elect One: the Praise of the Elect One and of God._
LXI. 1. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those
angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went
towards the north.
2. And I asked the angel, saying unto him: ‘Why have those (angels)
taken these cords and gone off?’ And he said unto me: ‘They have gone to
measure.’
3. And the angel who went with me said unto me:
‘These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for
ever and ever.
4. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And those are the measures which shall be given to faith
And which shall strengthen righteousness.
5. And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of
the earth,
And those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And those who have been devoured by the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.
6. And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power
and one voice and one light like unto fire.
7. And that One (with) their first words they blessed,
And extolled and lauded with wisdom,
And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
8. And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of
glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,
And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed.
9. And when he shall lift up his countenance
To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the
Lord of Spirits,
And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of
the Lord of Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.
10. And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy
ones above, and the host of God, the Cherubin, Seraphin, and Ophannin,
and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and
the Elect One, and the other powers on the earth (and) over the water.
11. On that day shall they raise one voice, and bless and glorify and
exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the
spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of
judgement and of peace, and in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say
with one voice: “Blessed is He, and may the name of the Lord of Spirits
be blessed for ever and ever.”
12. All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:
All the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless him,
And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:
And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and
extol, and hallow Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for
ever and ever.
13. For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is
long-suffering,
And all His works and all that He has created
He has revealed to the righteous and elect,
In the name of the Lord of Spirits.’
LXII. _Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty: Blessedness of the
Righteous._
LXII. 1. And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the
exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: ‘Open your eyes and
lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.’
2. And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,
And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
3. And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the
mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And they shall see and recognize
How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken before him.
4. Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And she has pain in bringing forth]
When her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.
5. And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be terrified,
And they shall be downcast of countenance,
And pain shall seize them,
When they see that Son of Man
Sitting on the throne of his glory.
6. And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall
bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
7. For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might,
And revealed him to the elect.
8. And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
9. And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who
rule the earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
10. Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness shall grow deeper on their faces.
11. And =He will deliver= them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His
children and His elect.
12. And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His
elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13. And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and
unrighteous.
14. And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15. And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance.
16. And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
And they shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
LXIII. _The unavailing Repentance of the Kings and the Mighty._
LXIII. 1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the
earth implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of
punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and
worship before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him.
2. And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:
‘Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom;
3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation
to generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4. We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is King over all kings.’
5. And they shall say:
‘Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before His glory!
6. And now we long for a little rest, but find it not:
We follow hard upon (it) and obtain (it) not:
And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7. For we have not believed before Him,
Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our
Lord]
But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.
8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And we find no respite for confession,
That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and
His justice;
And His judgements have no respect of persons.
9. And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.’
10. Now they will say unto themselves: ‘Our souls are full of
unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the
midst thereof into the †burden† of Sheol.’
11. And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And shame before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12. Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ‘This is the ordinance and judgement
with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who
possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.’
LXIV. _Vision of the fallen Angels in the Place of Punishment._
LXIV. 1. And other forms I saw hidden in that place. 2. I heard the
voice of the angel saying: ‘These are the angels who descended to the
earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men, and seduced
the children of men into committing sin.’
LXV. _Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation._
LXV. 1. And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and
its destruction was nigh. 2. And he arose from thence and went to the
ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah
said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me, hear me.’
3. And I said unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the
earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I
shall perish with it.’ 4. And thereupon there was a great commotion on
the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. 5.
And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘Why
hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?
6. And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning
those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because
they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of
the Satans, and all their powers—the most secret ones—and all the power
of those who practise sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the
power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: 7. And how
silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal
originates in the earth. 8. For lead and tin are not produced from the
earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel
stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.’ 9. And after that my
grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said
unto me: ‘Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this
commotion on the earth. 10. And He said unto me: “Because of their
unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not
be =withheld= by Me for ever. Because of the =sorceries= which they have
searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be
destroyed.” 11. And these—they have no =place of repentance= for ever,
because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned:
but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure,
and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.
12. And He has destined thy name to be among the holy,
And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth,
And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great
honours,
And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy
without number for ever.’
LXVI. _The Angels of the Waters bidden to hold them in Check._
LXVI. 1. And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are
prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are
beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all
who [abide and] dwell on the earth. 2. And the Lord of Spirits gave
commandment to the angels who were going forth, that they should not
cause =the waters= to rise but should hold them in check; for those
angels were over the powers of the waters. 3. And I went away from the
presence of Enoch.
LXVII. _God’s Promise to Noah: Places of Punishment of the Angels and of
the Kings._
LXVII. 1. And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said
unto me: ‘Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a
lot of love and uprightness. 2. And now the angels are making a wooden
(building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand
upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of
life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain
without inhabitant. 3. And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever
and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall
not =be unfruitful= on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed
and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.’
4. And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in
that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me
in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft
metal and tin. 5. And I saw that valley in which there was a great
convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. 6. And when all this took
place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in
that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected
with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray
(mankind) burned beneath that land. 7. And through its valleys proceed
streams of fire, where these angels are punished who had led astray
those who dwell upon the earth.
8. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the
mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the
healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their
spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for
they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and
yet believe not in His name. 9. And in proportion as the burning of
their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in
their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none
shall utter an idle word. 10. For the judgement shall come upon them,
because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of
the Lord. 11. And those same waters shall undergo a change in those
days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these
water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels
ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold. 12. And
I heard Michael answering and saying: ‘This judgement wherewith the
angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who
possess the earth.’ 13. Because these waters of judgement minister to
the healing of the body of the =kings= and the lust of their body;
therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will
change and become a fire which burns for ever.
LXVIII. _Michael and Raphael astonied at the Severity of the Judgement._
LXVIII. 1. And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of
all the secrets in the book and in the Parables which had been given to
him; and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the
Parables. 2. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: ‘The
power of the spirit transports and =makes me to tremble= because of the
severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels:
who can endure the severe judgement which has been executed, and before
which they melt away?’ 3. And Michael answered again, and said to
Raphael: ‘Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose
reins are not troubled by this word of judgement (that) has gone forth
upon them because of those who have thus led them out?’ 4. And it came
to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to
Raphael: ‘I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the
Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were
the Lord. 5. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever
and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it), but
alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever.’
LXIX. _The Names and Functions of the (fallen Angels and) Satans: the
secret Oath._
LXIX. 1. And after this judgement they shall terrify and =make= them =to
tremble= because they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth.
2. And behold the names of those angels [and these are their names: the
first of them is Samjâzâ, the second Artâqîfâ, and the third Armên, the
fourth Kôkabêl, the fifth †Tûrâêl†, the sixth Rûmjâl, the seventh
Dânjâl, the eighth †Nêqâêl†, the ninth Barâqêl, the tenth Azâzêl, the
eleventh Armârôs, the twelfth Batarjâl, the thirteenth †Busasêjal†, the
fourteenth Hanânêl, the fifteenth †Tûrêl†, and the sixteenth Sîmâpêsîêl,
the seventeenth Jetrêl, the eighteenth Tûmâêl, the nineteenth Tûrêl, the
twentieth †Rûmâêl†, the twenty-first †Azâzêl†. 3. And these are the
chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones over
hundreds and over fifties and over tens.]
4. The name of the first Jeqôn: that is, the one who led astray [all]
the sons of =God=, and brought them down to the earth, and led them
astray through the daughters of men. 5. And the second was named Asbeêl:
he imparted to the holy sons of =God= evil counsel, and led them astray
so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters of men. 6. And the
third was named Gâdreêl: he it is who showed the children of men all the
blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed [the weapons of death
to the sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for
battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men. 7. And from
his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on the earth from
that day and for evermore. 8. And the fourth was named Pênêmûe: he
taught the children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them
all the secrets of their wisdom. 9. And he instructed mankind in writing
with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity
and until this day. 10. For men were not created for such a purpose, to
give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink. 11. For men were
created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue
pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have
taken hold of them; but through this their knowledge they are perishing,
and through this power †it is consuming me†. 12. And the fifth was named
Kâsdejâ: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked
smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the
womb, that it may pass away, and [the smitings of the soul] the bites of
the serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat,
the son of the serpent named Tabâ’ĕt. 13. And this is the =task= of
Kâsbeêl, the chief of the oath which he showed to the holy ones when he
dwelt high above in glory, and its name is Bîqâ. 14. This (angel)
requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate
it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who
revealed all that was in secret to the children of men. 15. And this is
the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed
this oath Akâe in the hand of Michael. 16. And these are the secrets of
this oath....
And they are strong through his oath:
And the heaven was suspended before the world was created,
And for ever.
17. And through it the earth was founded upon the water,
And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters,
From the creation of the world and unto eternity.
18. And through that oath the sea was created,
And †as its foundation† He set for it the sand against the time of
(its) anger,
And it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world unto
eternity.
19. And through that oath are the depths made fast,
And abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.
20. And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course,
And deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
21. And through that oath the stars complete their course,
And He calls them by their names,
And they answer Him from eternity to eternity.
[22. And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and
of all zephyrs, and (their) paths from all the quarters of the winds.
23. And there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of
the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the
chambers of the hoar-frost, and the chambers of the mist, and the
chambers of the rain and the dew. 24. And all these believe and give
thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify (Him) with all their
power, and their food is in every act of thanksgiving: they thank and
glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]
25. And this oath is mighty over them,
And through it [they are preserved and] their paths are preserved,
And their course is not destroyed.
_Close of the Third Parable._
26. And there was great joy amongst them,
And they blessed and glorified and extolled,
Because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto them.
27. And he sat on the throne of his glory,
And the sum of judgement was given unto the Son of Man,
And he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the
face of the earth,
And those who have led the world astray.
28. With chains shall they be bound,
And in their assemblage-place of destruction shall they be
imprisoned,
And all their works vanish from the face of the earth.
29. And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible,
For that Son of Man has appeared,
And has seated himself on the throne of his glory,
And all evil shall pass away before his face,
And the word of that Son of Man shall go forth
And be strong before the Lord of Spirits.
This is the third Parable of Enoch.
LXX. _The final Translation of Enoch._
LXX. 1. And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime
was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from
amongst those who dwell on the earth. 2. And he was raised aloft on the
chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. 3. And from
that day I was no longer numbered amongst them; and he set me between
the two winds, between the north and the west, where the angels took the
cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. 4. And
there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning
dwell in that place.
LXXI. _Two earlier Visions of Enoch._
LXXI. 1. And it came to pass after this that my spirit was
translated
And it ascended into the heavens:
And I saw the =holy sons of God=.
They were stepping on flames of fire:
Their garments were white [and their raiment],
And their faces shone like snow.
2. And I saw two streams of fire,
And the light of that fire shone like hyacinth,
And I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.
3. And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by my
right hand,
And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,
And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
4. And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,
And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,
Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.
5. And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,
And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals,
And between those crystals tongues of living fire.
6. And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,
And on its four sides were streams full of living fire,
And they girt that house.
7. And round about were Seraphin, Cherubin, and Ophannin:
And these are they who sleep not,
And guard the throne of His glory.
8. And I saw angels who could not be counted.
A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand.
Encircling that house,
And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,
And the holy angels who are above the heavens,
Go in and out of that house.
9. And they came forth from that house,
And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel,
And many holy angels without number.
10. And with them the Head of Days,
His head white and pure as wool,
And His raiment indescribable.
11. And I fell on my face,
And my whole body became relaxed,
And my spirit was transfigured;
And I cried with a loud voice,
with the spirit of power,
And blessed and glorified and extolled.
12. And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well
pleasing before that Head of Days. 13. And that Head of Days came with
Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of
angels without number.
[Lost passage wherein the Son of Man was described as accompanying
the Head of Days, and Enoch asked one of the angels (as in 46^3)
concerning the Son of Man as to who he was.]
14. And he (_i. e._ the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice,
and said unto me:
‘=This is= the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness;
And righteousness abides over =him=,
And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes =him= not.’
15. And he said unto me:
‘He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;
For from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world,
And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.
16. And all shall walk in =his= ways since righteousness never
forsakes =him=:
With =him= will be their dwelling-places, and with =him= their
heritage,
And they shall not be separated from =him= for ever and ever and
ever.
17. And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,
And the righteous shall have peace and an upright way,
In the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’
THE BOOK OF THE COURSES OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES. (LXXII-LXXXII.)
LXXII. _The Sun._
LXXII. 1. The Book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the
relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their
seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to
their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their
guide, showed me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are,
and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto
eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till
eternity. 2. And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary
the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its
setting in the western portals of the heaven. 3. And I saw six portals
in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets: and the
moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and
those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all
following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many
windows to the right and left of these portals. 4. And first there goes
forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like
the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with
illuminating and heating fire. 5. The chariot on which he ascends, the
wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through
the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to
the appropriate (lit. ‘that’) portal and shines in the face of the
heaven. 6. In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal,
which is the fourth [those six portals in the east]. 7. And in that
fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve
window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in
their season. 8. When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth
through that fourth portal thirty mornings in succession, and sets
accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven. 9. And during
this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter
to the thirtieth morning. 10. On that day the day is longer than the
night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the
night to eight parts. 11. And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and
sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty
mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal. 12. And then
the day becomes longer by †two† parts and amounts to eleven parts, and
the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts. 13. And it returns
to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the
sixth portal one and thirty mornings on account of its sign. 14. On that
day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double
the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened
and becomes six parts. 15. And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter
and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into
the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. 16. And
when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one
part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. 17. And the sun
goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and
rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west
again in the fifth western portal. 18. On that day the day decreases by
†two† parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts. 19.
And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth
portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one and thirty
mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west. 20. On that day
the day is equalised with the night, [and becomes of equal length], and
the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts. 21. And the
sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east
and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in
the third portal. 22. And on that day the night becomes longer than the
day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till
the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and
the day to eight parts. 23. And the sun rises from that third portal and
sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for
thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like
manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven. 24. And on
that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts.
25. And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in
the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first
portal for one and thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the
west of the heaven. 26. And on that day the night becomes longer and
amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to
twelve parts and the day to six. 27. And the sun has (therewith)
traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions
of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in
the west opposite to it. 28. And on that night has the night decreased
in length by a †ninth† part, and the night has become eleven parts and
the day seven parts. 29. And the sun has returned and entered into the
second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his
orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting. 30. And on that day the
night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the
day to eight. 31. And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and
sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal
for one and thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven. 32. On
that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to
nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as
to its days three hundred and sixty-four. 33. And the length of the day
and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night
arise—through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit.
‘they are separated’). 34. So it comes that its course becomes daily
longer, and its course nightly shorter. 35. And this is the law and the
course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and
rises, _i. e._ the great luminary which is named the Sun, for ever and
ever. 36. And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so
named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. 37.
As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day
and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon;
but as regards size they are both equal.
LXXIII. _The Moon and its Phases._
LXXIII. 1. And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller
luminary, which is named the Moon. 2. And her circumference is like the
circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is
driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure. 3.
And her rising and setting changes every month: and her days are like
the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (_i. e._ full) it
amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. 4. And thus she
rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth
morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you
the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun
in the portal where the sun rises. 5. And the one half of her goes forth
by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light,
with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part
of her light. 6. And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of
her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof.
7. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with
him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the
beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] the moon
sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts
and the half of one of them. 8. And she rises on that day with exactly a
seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun,
and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the (remaining) thirteen
parts.
LXXIV. LXXV. _The Lunar Year._
LXXIV. 1. And I saw another course, a law for her, (and) how according
to that law she performs her monthly revolution. 2. And all these Uriel,
the holy angel who is the leader of them all, showed to me, and their
positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed them to me, and
I wrote down their months as they were, and the appearance of their
lights till fifteen days were accomplished. 3. In single seventh parts
she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts
accomplishes all her darkness in the west. 4. And in certain months she
alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar
course. 5. In two months the moon sets with the sun in those two middle
portals the third and the fourth. 6. She goes forth for seven days, and
turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises,
and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes from the sun, and in
eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth. 7. And
when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven
days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven
days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she
recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days. 8. And she
returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun
goes forth. 9. Thus I saw their position—how the moons rose and the sun
set in those days. 10. And if five years are added together the sun has
an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one
of those five years, when they are full, amount to 364 days. 11. And the
overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6
days every year come to 30 days: and the moon falls behind the sun and
stars to the number of 30 days. 12. And =the sun= and the stars bring in
all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their
position by a single day unto eternity; but =complete= the years with
perfect justice in 364 days. 13. In 3 years there are 1092 days, and in
5 years 1820 days, so that in 8 years there are 2912 days. 14. For the
moon alone the days amount in 3 years to 1062 days, and in 5 years she
falls 50 days behind: [_i. e._ to the sum (of 1770) there is to be added
(1000 and) 62 days]. 15. And in 5 years there are 1770 days, so that for
the moon the days in 8 years amount to 2832 days. 16. [For in 8 years
she falls behind to the amount of 80 days], all the days she falls
behind in 8 years are 80. 17. And the year is accurately completed in
conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which
rise from the portals through which it (the sun) rises and sets 30 days.
LXXV. 1. And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed
over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the
four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to
the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days
which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year. 2. And owing to
them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on
the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of
the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and
the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three
hundred and sixty-four stations. 3. For the signs and the times and the
years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory
hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven, in the heaven
and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the heaven and be
seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, _i. e._ the
sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering creatures which make their
revolution in all the chariots of the heaven. 4. In like manner twelve
doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun’s chariot in
the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them
is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their
appointed seasons. 5. [And for the winds and the spirit of the dew† when
they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the ends.] 6. As for
the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of the earth, out of which
go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the
east and in the west. 7. There are many windows open to the left and
right of them, and one window at its (appointed) season produces warmth,
corresponding (as these do) to those doors from which the stars come
forth according as He has commanded them, and wherein they set
corresponding to their number. 8. And I saw chariots in the heaven,
running in the world, above those portals in which revolve the stars
that never set. 9. And one is larger than all the rest, and it is that
that makes its course through the entire world.
LXXVI. _The Twelve Winds and their Portals._
LXXVI. 1. And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all
the =quarters= (of the heaven), from which the winds go forth and blow
over the earth. 2. Three of them are open on the face (_i. e._ the east)
of the heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right (_i. e._
the south) of the heaven, and three on the left (_i. e._ the north). 3.
And the three first are those of the east, and three are of †the north,
and three [after those on the left] of the south†, and three of the
west. 4. Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity,
and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring
destruction on all the earth and on the water upon it, and on all who
dwell thereon, and on everything which is in the water and on the land.
5. And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes
forth through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards
the south: from it come forth desolation, drought, heat, and
destruction. 6. And through the second portal in the middle comes what
is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity
and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come
cold and drought.
7. And after these come forth the south winds through three portals:
through the first portal of them inclining to the east comes forth a hot
wind. 8. And through the middle portal next to it there come forth
fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health. 9. And
through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain,
locusts and desolation.
10. And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east
come dew and rain, locusts and desolation. 11. And from the middle
portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and
prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and
hoar-frost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts.
12. And after these [four] are the west winds: through the first portal
adjoining the north come forth dew and hoar-frost, and cold and snow and
frost. 13. And from the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and
prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the
south come forth drought and desolation, and burning and destruction.
14. And the twelve portals of the four =quarters= of the heaven are
therewith completed, and all their laws and all their plagues and all
their benefactions have I shown to thee, my son Methuselah.
LXXVII. _The Four Quarters of the World: the Seven Mountains, the Seven
Rivers, &c._
LXXVII. 1. And the first =quarter= is called the east, because it is the
first: and the second, the south, because the Most High =will descend=
there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for
ever =descend=. 2. And the west =quarter= is named the diminished,
because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down. 3. And
the fourth =quarter=, named the north, is divided into three parts: the
first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas
of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and
clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness.
4. I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are
on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and
years pass away. 5. I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the
rivers: one of them coming from the †west† pours its waters into the
Great Sea. 6. And these two come from the north to the sea and pour
their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east. 7. And the remaining
four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, ‹two of them
to› the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge
themselves there [and some say: into the desert]. 8. Seven great islands
I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in
the Great Sea.
LXXVIII. _The Sun and Moon: the Waxing and Waning of the Moon._
LXXVIII. 1. And the names of the sun are the following: the first
Orjârês, and the second Tômâs. 2. And the moon has four names: the first
name is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe.
3. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the
circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both
is alike. 4. In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of
light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite
measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is
exhausted. 5. And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make
their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern
portals on the face of the heaven. 6. And when the moon rises
one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: [the light becomes full in
her]: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 7. And fifteen
parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her
light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she
becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by (the addition of)
fourteenth parts. 8. And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first
day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of
light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to
ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to
seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to
four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the
fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light
disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month
has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. 10. And Uriel showed me
another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it
is transferred to her by the sun. 11. During all the period during which
the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when
opposite to the sun during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in
the heaven], and when she is illumined throughout, her light is
accomplished in the heaven. 12. And on the first day she is called the
new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. 13. She becomes full
moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east
she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the
sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.
14. On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again
she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are
at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. 15. And three
months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months
of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the
first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and
seventy-seven days. 16. And in the time of her going out she appears for
three months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears
(of) twenty-nine each. 17. At night she appears like a man for twenty
days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is
nothing else in her save her light.
LXXIX-LXXX. 1. _Recapitulation of several of the Laws._
LXXIX. 1. And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of
all the stars of the heaven is completed. 2. And he showed me all the
laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and
for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to
it every month and every week: 3. And the waning of the moon which takes
place in the sixth portal: for in this sixth portal her light is
accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: 4.
‹And the waning› which takes place in the first portal in its season,
till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned
according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days. 5. She falls
behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the
course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been
traversed. 6. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which
Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.
LXXX. 1. And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me:
‘Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed
everything to thee that thou shouldest see this sun and this moon, and
the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them,
their tasks and times and departures.
LXXX. 2-8. _Perversion of Nature and the heavenly Bodies owing to the
Sin of Men._
2. And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter,
And shall not appear in their time:
And the rain shall be kept back,
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3. And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time,
And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4. And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
5. [And in those days the =sun= shall be seen and he shall journey
in the =evening= †on the extremity of the great chariot in† the
west]
And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
6. And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order
(prescribed);
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7. And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the
sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,
[And they shall be altered from all their ways],
Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
8. And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them
So as to destroy all.’
LXXXI. _The Heavenly Tablets and the Mission of Enoch._
LXXXI. 1. And he said unto me:
‘Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,
And read what is written thereon,
And mark every individual fact.’
2. And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was
written (thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all
the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be
upon the earth to the remotest generations. 3. And forthwith I blessed
the great Lord, the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the
works of the world.
And I extolled the Lord because of His patience,
And blessed Him because of the children of men.
4. And after that I said:
‘Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,
Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,
And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.’
5. And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth
before the door of my house, and said to me: ‘Declare everything to thy
son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous
in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator. 6. One year we will
leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou
mayest teach thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all
thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their
midst.
7. Let thy heart be strong,
For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;
The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,
And shall offer congratulation to one another.
8. But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And the apostate go down with the apostate.
9. And those who practise righteousness shall die on account of the
deeds of men,
And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.’
10. And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my
people, blessing the Lord of the world.
LXXXII. _Charge given to Enoch: the four Intercalary Days: the Stars
which lead the Seasons and the Months._
LXXXII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting
to thee and writing down for thee, and I have revealed to thee
everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my
son Methuselah, the books from thy father’s hand, and (see) that thou
deliver them to the generations of the world.
2. I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children,
[And thy children that shall be to thee],
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.
3. And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the
way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners in the reckoning of all
their days in which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and
departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands
of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated
which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter
with them four days. 5. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not
reckon them in the =whole reckoning of the year=: yea, men shall be at
fault, and not recognize them accurately. 6. For they belong to the
reckoning of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in
the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in
the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four
days.
7. And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning
thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years
and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, =to whom= the Lord of the
whole creation of the world has =subjected= the host of heaven. 8. And
he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give
light to men—sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven
which revolve in their circular chariots. 9. And these are the orders of
the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals
and months.
10. And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch =that
they= enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their
months, in their periods of dominion, and in their positions. 11. Their
four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and
after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and
for the three hundred and sixty (days) there are heads over thousands
who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are the
leaders which sunder the four parts of the year. 12. And these heads
over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a
station, but their leaders make the division. 13. And these are the
names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are
ordained: Mîlkî’êl, Hel’emmêlêk, and Mêl’êjal, and Nârêl. 14. And the
names of those who lead them: Adnâr’êl, and Îjâsûsa’êl, and
‘Elômê’êl—these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one
that follows the three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders
of stations that divide the four parts of the year.
15. In the beginning of the year Melkejâl rises first and rules, who is
named †Tam’âinî, and sun† and all the days of his dominion whilst he
bears rule are ninety-one days. 16. And these are the signs of the days
which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and
heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves are produced
on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose-flowers, and
all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the
winter season become withered. 17. And these are the names of the
leaders which are under them: Berka’êl, Zêlebs’êl, and another who is
added a head of a thousand, called Hîlûjâsěph: and the days of the
dominion of this (leader) are at an end.
18. The next leader after him is Hêl’emmêlêk, whom one names the shining
sun, and all the days of his light are ninety-one days. 19. And these
are the signs of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and
the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and
ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the
earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields, and the
winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion. 20.
These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of
thousands: Gîdâ’îjal, Kê’êl, and Hê’êl, and the name of the head of a
thousand which is added to them, Asfâ’êl’: and the days of his dominion
are at an end.
THE DREAM-VISIONS. (LXXXIII-XC.)
LXXXIII. LXXXIV. _First Dream-Vision on the Deluge._
LXXXIII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions
which I have seen, recounting them before thee. 2. Two visions I saw
before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first
when I was learning to write, the second before I took thy mother,
(when) I saw a terrible vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord.
3. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I
saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to
the earth. 4. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was
swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on
mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from
their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. 5. And thereupon a
word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and
said: ‘The earth is destroyed.’ 6. And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me
as I lay near him, and said unto me: ‘Why dost thou cry so, my son, and
why dost thou make such lamentation?’ 7. And I recounted to him the
whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: ‘A terrible thing
hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream-vision as to
the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and
be destroyed with a great destruction. 8. And now, my son, arise and
make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer, that a
remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole
earth. 9. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and
upon the earth there will be great destruction.’ 10. After that I arose
and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the
generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son
Methuselah. 11. And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and
the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few
stars, and the whole earth, and everything as †He had known† it in the
beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because
He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, †and he
ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept
traversing the path shown unto him.
LXXXIV. 1. And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the
Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the
tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of
men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a
tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:
2. ‘Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,
King of kings and God of the whole world.
And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,
And throughout all generations Thy dominion:
And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3. For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not =from the place of Thy throne=,
=Nor turns away= from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
4. And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of
judgement.
5. And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not to destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has
aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant
of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.’
LXXXV-XC. _The Second Dream-Vision of Enoch: the History of the World to
the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom._
LXXXV. 1. And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole
dream to thee, my son. 2. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to
his son Methuselah: ‘To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my
words—incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father. 3. Before I
took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull
came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came
forth a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one
of them black and the other red. 4. And that black bull gored the red
one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see
that red bull. 5. But that black bull grew and that heifer went with
him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and
followed him. 6. And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of
that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and
lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him. 7. And I
looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that
time onward she cried no more. 8. And after that she bore another white
bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.
9. And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a
great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they
resembled him. 10. And they began to beget many white bulls, which
resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.
LXXXVI. _The Fall of the Angels and the Demoralization of Mankind._
LXXXVI. 1. And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the
heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and ate
and pastured amongst those oxen. 2. And after that I saw the large and
the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures
and their cattle, and began to live with each other. 3. And again I saw
in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many
stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star,
and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them
[amongst them]. 4. And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let
out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the
oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels and asses.
5. And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began
to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns. 6.
And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and behold all the
children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee
from them.
LXXXVII. _The Advent of the Seven Archangels._
LXXXVII. 1. And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to
devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud. 2. And I raised
mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there
came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went
forth from that place and three with them. 3. And those three that had
last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the
generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed
me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. 4.
And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that
befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen,
and all of them.’
LXXXVIII. _The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by the Archangels._
LXXXVIII. 1. And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and
he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it
hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and
deep, and horrible and dark. 2. And one of them drew a sword, and gave
it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite
each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them. 3. And as I was
beholding in the vision, lo, one of the four who had come forth stoned
(them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose
privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and
foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
LXXXIX. 1-9. _The Deluge and the Deliverance of Noah._
LXXXIX. 1. And one of those four went to that white bull and instructed
him in a secret, without his being terrified: he was born a bull and
became a man, and built for himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon;
and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel and they were covered in.
2. And again I raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof,
with seven water torrents thereon, and those torrents flowed with much
water into an enclosure. 3. And I saw again, and behold fountains were
opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to
swell and rise upon the surface, and I saw that enclosure till all its
surface was covered with water. 4. And the water, the darkness, and mist
increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of that water, that
water had risen above the height of that enclosure, and was streaming
over that enclosure, and it stood upon the earth. 5. And all the cattle
of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how they sank and
were swallowed up and perished in that water. 6. But that vessel floated
on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank
to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no longer see them,
and they were not able to escape, (but) perished and sank into the
depths. 7. And again I saw in the vision till those water torrents were
removed from that high roof, and the chasms of the earth were levelled
up and other abysses were opened. 8. Then the water began to run down
into these, till the earth became visible; but that vessel settled on
the earth, and the darkness retired and light appeared. 9. But that
white bull which had become a man came out of that vessel, and the three
bulls with him, and one of those three was white like that bull, and one
of them was red as blood, and one black: and that white bull departed
from them.
LXXXIX. 10-27. _From the Death of Noah to the Exodus._
10. And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and birds, so that
there arose different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild
boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and
ravens; and among them was born a white bull. 11. And they began to bite
one another; but that white bull which was born amongst them begat a
wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied. 12.
But that bull which was born from him begat a black wild boar and a
white sheep; and the former begat many boars, but that sheep begat
twelve sheep. 13. And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up
one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to
the wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves. 14. And the Lord
brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among
the wolves: and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep. 15. And
the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they
destroyed their little ones, and they cast their young into a river of
much water: but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their
little ones, and to complain unto their Lord. 16. And a sheep which had
been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw
the sheep how they lamented and cried, and besought their Lord with all
their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the
sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them. 17. And He
called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with it
concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the
sheep. 18. And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the
Lord, and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and
entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and spake with them
and admonished them not to touch the sheep from henceforth. 19. And
thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly
with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud. 20. And the Lord came
to the sheep and they began to smite those wolves: and the wolves began
to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and forthwith ceased to
cry out. 21. And I saw the sheep till they departed from amongst the
wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves
departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power. 22. And the Lord
of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed
Him: and His face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. 23.
But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of
water. 24. And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side
and on that before their face, and their Lord led them and placed
Himself between them and the wolves. 25. And as those wolves did not yet
see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the wolves
followed the sheep, and [those wolves] ran after them into that sea. 26.
And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His
face, but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been
created, and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves.
27. And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and
were drowned.
LXXXIX. 28-40. _Israel in the Desert, the Giving of the Law, the
Entrance into Palestine._
28. But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a
wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to
open their eyes and to see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep pasturing
them and giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and leading
them. 29. And that sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and
the Lord of the sheep sent it to them. 30. And after that I saw the Lord
of the sheep who stood before them, and His appearance was great and
terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and were afraid
before His face. 31. And they all feared and trembled because of Him,
and they cried to that sheep with them [which was amongst them]: “We are
not able to stand before our Lord or to behold Him.” 32. And that sheep
which led them again ascended to the summit of that rock, but the sheep
began to be blinded and to wander from the way which he had showed them,
but that sheep wot not thereof. 33. And the Lord of the sheep was
wrathful exceedingly against them, and that sheep discovered it, and
went down from the summit of the rock, and came to the sheep, and found
the greatest part of them blinded and fallen away. 34. And when they saw
it they feared and trembled at its presence, and desired to return to
their folds. 35. And that sheep took other sheep with it, and came to
those sheep which had fallen away, and began to slay them; and the sheep
feared its presence, and thus that sheep brought back those sheep that
had fallen away, and they returned to their folds. 36. And I saw in this
vision till that sheep became a man and built a house for the Lord of
the sheep, and placed all the sheep in that house. 37. And I saw till
this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell asleep: and I
saw till all the great sheep perished and little ones arose in their
place, and they came to a pasture, and approached a stream of water. 38.
Then that sheep, their leader which had become a man, withdrew from them
and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a
great crying. 39. And I saw till they left off crying for that sheep and
crossed that stream of water, and there arose the =two= sheep as leaders
in the place of those which had led them and fallen asleep (lit. “had
fallen asleep and led them”). 40. And I saw till the sheep came to a
goodly place, and a pleasant and glorious land, and I saw till those
sheep were satisfied; and that house stood amongst them in the pleasant
land.
LXXXIX. 41-50. _From the Time of the Judges till the Building of the
Temple._
41. And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, till
another sheep arose and led them and brought them all back, and their
eyes were opened.
42. And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to devour those
sheep till the Lord of the sheep raised up [another sheep] a ram from
their midst, which led them. 43. And that ram began to butt on either
side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars till he had destroyed them †all†.
44. And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was
amongst the sheep, =till= it †forsook its glory† and began to butt those
sheep, and trampled upon them, and behaved itself unseemly. 45. And the
Lord of the sheep sent the =lamb= to another =lamb= and raised it to
being a ram and leader of the sheep instead of that ram which had
†forsaken its glory†. 46. And it went to it and spake to it alone, and
raised it to being a ram, and made it the prince and leader of the
sheep; but during all these things those dogs oppressed the sheep. 47.
And the first ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose and
fled before it; and I saw till those dogs pulled down the firsts ram.
48. And that second ram arose and led the [little] sheep. 49. And those
sheep grew and multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild boars
feared and fled before it, and that ram butted and killed the wild
beasts, and those wild beasts had no longer any power among the sheep
and robbed them no more of aught. 48^b. And that ram begat many sheep
and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and became
prince and leader of those sheep.
50. And that house became great and broad, and it was built for those
sheep: ‹and› a tower lofty and great was built on the house for the Lord
of the sheep, and that house was low, but the tower was elevated and
lofty, and the Lord of the sheep stood on that tower and they offered a
full table before Him.
LXXXIX. 51-67. _The Two Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to the Destruction
of Jerusalem._
51. And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many
ways, and forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called
some from amongst the sheep and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep
began to slay them. 52. And one of them was saved and was not slain, and
it sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it,
but the Lord of the sheep saved it from the sheep, and brought it up to
me, and caused it to dwell there. 53. And many other sheep He sent to
those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them. 54. And after
that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower
they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord
of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds
until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place. 55. And
He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and
hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and
those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep. 56. And I saw
that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into
the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the
wild beasts. 57. And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to
appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to
the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts. 58. But He
remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured
and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of
all the beasts. 59. And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those
sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the
shepherds and their companions: “Let each individual of you pasture the
sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye.
60. And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you
which of them are to be destroyed—and them destroy ye.” And He gave over
unto them those sheep. 61. And He called another and spake unto him:
“Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep;
for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them. 62. And
every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the
shepherds, record (namely) how many they destroy according to my
command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against
every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects. 63. And read
out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver
over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them,
and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may =comprehend= and see
what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I have
commanded them. 64. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not
declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each
individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his
time, and lay it all before me.” 65. And I saw till those shepherds
pastured in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more
than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the hand of
the lions. 66. And the lions and tigers ate and devoured the greater
part of those sheep, and the wild boars ate along with them; and they
burnt that tower and demolished that house. 67. And I became exceedingly
sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was
demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered
that house.
LXXXIX. 68-71. _First Period of the Angelic Rulers—from the Destruction
of Jerusalem to the Return from the Captivity._
68. And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to
all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them received in
his time a definite number: it was written by the other in a book how
many each one of them destroyed of them. 69. And each one slew and
destroyed many more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament
on account of those sheep. 70. And thus in the vision I saw that one who
wrote how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those shepherds,
day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole
book to the Lord of the sheep—(even) everything that they had done, and
all that each one of them had made away with, and all that they had
given over to destruction. 71. And the book was read before the Lord of
the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and sealed it
and laid it down.
LXXXIX. 72-77. _Second Period—from the time of Cyrus to that of
Alexander the Great._
72. And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and
behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began
to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars
tried to hinder them, but they were not able. 73. And they began again
to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the
high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but
all the bread on it was polluted and not pure. 74. And as touching all
this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the
eyes of) their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large
numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep
with their feet and devoured them. 75. And the Lord of the sheep
remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and
mingled with them (_i. e._ the beasts), and they (_i. e._ the shepherds)
did not save them out of the hand of the beasts. 76. And this one who
wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord
of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought Him on
their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave
testimony before Him against all the shepherds. 77. And he took the
actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.
XC. 1-5. _Third Period—from Alexander the Great to the Graeco-Syrian
Domination._
XC. 1. And I saw till that in this manner =thirty-five= shepherds
undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed
their periods as did the first; and others received them into their
hands to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period.
2. And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the
eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the
birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes
and to devour their flesh. 3. And the sheep cried out because their
flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and
lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep. 4. And I
saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites,
and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till
only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and
the sheep became few. 5. And I saw until that twenty-three had
undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods
fifty-eight times.
XC. 6-12. _Fourth Period—from the Graeco-Syrian Domination to the
Maccabæan Revolt._
6. But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to
open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep. 7. Yea, they cried
to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them, but were
exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded. 8. And I
saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs, and took one of
those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them. 9. And I
saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their
horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep,
and their eyes were opened. 10. And it †looked at† them [and their eyes
opened], and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to
it. 11. And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and
ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon
them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams
lamented and cried out. 12. And those ravens fought and battled with it
and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.
XC. 13-19. _The last Assault of the Gentiles on the Jews_(where vv.
13-15 and 16-18 are doublets).
13. And I saw till the †shepherds and† eagles and those
vultures and kites came, and †they cried to the ravens†
that they should break the horn of that ram, and they
battled and fought with it, and it battled with them and
cried that its help might come.
16. All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites
were gathered together, and there came with them all
the sheep of the field, yea, they all came together,
and helped each other to break that horn of the ram.
19. And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep
proceeded against all the beasts of the field to slay them, and all the
beasts and the birds of the heaven fled before their face.
14. And I saw till that man, who wrote down the names of
the shepherds [and] carried up into the presence of the
Lord of the sheep [came and helped it and showed it
everything: he had come down for the help of that ram].
15. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto
them in wrath, and all who saw Him fled, and they
all fell †into His shadow† from before His face.
17. And I saw that man, who wrote the book according
to the command of the Lord, till he opened that book
concerning the destruction which those twelve last
shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed
much more than their predecessors, before the Lord of the
sheep.
18. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto
them and took in His hand the staff of his wrath,
and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder,
and all the beasts and all the birds of the heaven
fell from among those sheep, and were swallowed up
in the earth and it covered them.
XC. 20-27. _Judgement of the Fallen Angels, the Shepherds, and the
Apostates._
20. And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the
Lord of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and =the other= took the sealed
books and opened those books before the Lord of the sheep. 21. And the
Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded that
they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led
the way, =all the= stars whose privy members were like those of horses,
and they brought them all before Him. 22. And He said to that man who
wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said unto
him: “Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and
who taking them on their own authority slew more than I commanded them.”
23. And behold, they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before
Him. 24. And the judgement was held first over the stars, and they were
judged and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they
were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars
of fire. 25. And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty,
and they were cast into that fiery abyss. 26. And I saw at that time how
a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and
they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found
guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss
was to the right of that house. 27. And I saw those sheep burning †and
their bones burning†.
XC. 28-38. _The New Jerusalem, the Conversion of the surviving Gentiles,
the Resurrection of the Righteous, the Messiah._
28. And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and
carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the
house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off
and laid it in a place in the south of the land. 29. And I saw till the
Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that
first, and set it up in the place of the first which had been folded up:
all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than
those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the
sheep were within it.
30. And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on
the earth, and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing
homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in every
=thing=. 31. And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and
had seized me by my hand [who had taken me up before], and the hand of
that ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and set me down in the
midst of those sheep †before the judgement took place†. 32. And those
sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean. 33. And all
that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field,
and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord
of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had
returned to His house. 34. And I saw till they laid down that sword,
which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the
house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the
sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not. 35. And the
eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not
one among them that did not see. 36. And I saw that that house was large
and broad and very full.
37. And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns, and all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made
petition to him all the time. 38. And I saw till all their generations
were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among
them became a =lamb=, and that =lamb= became a great animal and had
great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over
=it= and over all the oxen. 39. And I slept in their midst: and I awoke
and saw everything. 40. This is the vision which I saw while I slept,
and I awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and gave Him glory.
41. Then I wept with a great weeping, and my tears stayed not till I
could no longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I
had seen; for everything shall come and be fulfilled; and all the deeds
of men in their order were shown to me. 42. On that night I remembered
the first dream, and because of it I wept and was troubled—because I had
seen that vision.’
THE CONCLUDING SECTION OF THE BOOK. (XCII-CV.)
XCII. XCI. 1-10, 18-19. _Enoch’s Book of Admonition for his Children._
XCII. 1. The book written by Enoch—[Enoch indeed wrote this complete
doctrine of wisdom, (which is) praised of all men and a judge of all the
earth] for all my children who shall dwell on the earth; and for the
future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.
2. Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.
3. And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,
[Shall arise] and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and
grace.
4. He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal
uprightness,
And He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with
goodness and righteousness,
And he shall walk in eternal light.
5. And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,
And shall no more be seen from that day forevermore.
XCI. 1-11, 18-19. _Enoch’s Admonition to his Children._
XCI. 1. ‘And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers,
And gather together to me all the sons of thy mother,
For the word calls me,
And the spirit is poured out upon me,
That I may show you everything
That shall befall you for ever.’
2. And thereupon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers
and assembled his relatives. 3. And he spake unto all the children of
righteousness and said:
‘Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father,
And hearken aright to the voice of my mouth;
For I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:
Love uprightness and walk therein.
4. And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
And it shall guide you on good paths,
And righteousness shall be your companion.
5. For I know that violence =must= increase on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.
6. And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence
And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.
7. And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy
And violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,
A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,
And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement
To execute judgement on earth.
8. In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
9. And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And they (_i. e._ the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement of
fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.
10. And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
[11. And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and
the sinners shall be destroyed by the sword ... shall be cut off from
the blasphemers in every place, and those who plan violence and those
who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.]
18. And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
The paths of righteousness, and the paths of violence.
Yea, I will show them to you again,
That ye may know what will come to pass.
19. And now, hearken unto me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for
=ever=.’
XCIII, XCI. 12-17. _The Apocalypse of Weeks._
XCIII. 1. And after that Enoch both †gave† and began to recount from the
books. 2. And Enoch said:
‘Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect
of the world,
And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch, will declare (them) unto you, my sons:
According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,
And which I have known through the word of the holy angels,
And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.’
3. And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
‘I was born the seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still endured.
4. And after me there shall arise in the second week great
wickedness,
And deceit shall have sprung up;
And in it there shall be the first end.
And in it a man shall be saved;
And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.
5. And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement.
And =his posterity= shall become the plant of righteousness for
evermore.
6. And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,
And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for
them.
7. And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.
8. And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be
blinded,
And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.
And in it a man shall ascend;
And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,
And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
9. And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation
arise,
And many shall be its deeds,
And all its deeds shall be apostate.
10. And at its close shall be elected
The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,
To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
[11. For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear
the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His
thoughts? and who is there that can behold all the works of heaven? 12.
And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is
there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a
spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and
think them or do like them? 13. And who is there of all men that could
know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has
been shown the measure of all of them? 14. Or is there any one who could
discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon
what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where
all the luminaries rest?]
XCI. 12-17. _The Last Three Weeks._
12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of
righteousness,
And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be
executed on the oppressors,
And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.
13. And at its close they shall acquire houses through their
righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14_d._ And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.
14_a._ And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement
shall be revealed to the whole world,
_b._ And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the
earth,
_c._ And the world shall be written down for destruction.
15. And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.
16. And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,
And a new heaven shall appear,
And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.
17. And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.
XCIV. 1-5. _Admonitions to the Righteous._
XCIV. 1. And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and
walk therein;
For the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation,
But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and
vanish.
2. And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence
and of death be revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from them,
And shall not follow them.
3. And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor on the paths of death,
And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
4. But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect
life,
And walk in the paths of peace,
And ye shall live and prosper.
5. And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,
And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts;
For know that sinners will tempt men to =evilly-entreat= wisdom,
So that no place may be found for her,
And no manner of temptation may minish.
XCIV. 6-11. _Woes for the Sinners._
6. Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression,
And lay deceit as a foundation;
For they shall be suddenly overthrown,
And they shall have no peace.
7. Woe to those who build their houses with sin;
For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown,
And by the sword shall they fall.
[And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall
perish.]
8. Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,
And from your riches shall ye depart,
Because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your
riches.
9. Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,
And have become ready for the day of slaughter,
And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.
10. Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He who hath created you will overthrow you,
And for your fall there shall be no compassion,
And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11. And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A reproach to the sinners and the godless.
XCV. _Enoch’s Grief: fresh Woes against the Sinners._
XCV. 1. Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters
That I might weep over you,
And pour down my tears as a cloud †of† waters:
That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!
2. †Who has permitted you to practise reproaches and wickedness?
And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.†
3. Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands,
That ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.
4. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed:
Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
5. Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;
For ye shall be requited according to your works.
6. Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish.
7. Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
XCVI. _Grounds of Hopefulness for the Righteous: Woes for the Wicked._
XCVI. 1. Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners
perish before you,
And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.
[2. And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,
Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your nest,
And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,
And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the
unrighteous,
And the sirens shall sigh because of you and weep.]
3. Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;
For healing shall be your portion,
And a bright light shall enlighten you,
And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.
4. Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like
the righteous,
But your hearts convict you of being sinners,
And this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of
(your) evil deeds.
5. Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,
And drink =wine in large bowls=,
And tread under foot the lowly with your might.
6. Woe to you who drink water =from every fountain=,
For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,
Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.
7. Woe to you who work unrighteousness,
And deceit and blasphemy:
It shall be a memorial against you for evil.
8. Woe to you, ye mighty,
Who with might oppress the righteous;
For the day of your destruction is coming.
In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous—in the
day of your judgement.
XCVII. _The Evils in Store for Sinners and the Possessors of unrighteous
Wealth._
XCVII. 1. Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a
shame,
And perish in the day of unrighteousness.
2. Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is mindful
of your destruction,
And the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.
3. What will ye do, ye sinners,
And whither will ye flee on that day of judgement,
When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?
4. Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,
Against whom this word shall be a testimony:
“Ye have been companions of sinners.”
5. And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto
the Lord.
And for you the days of your judgement shall come,
6. And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out
before the Great Holy One;
And your faces shall be covered with shame,
And He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.
7. Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid-ocean and on the dry
land,
Whose remembrance is evil against you.
8. Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness, and
say:
“We have become rich with riches and have possessions,
And have acquired everything we have desired.
9. And now let us do what we purposed:
For we have gathered silver,
9^d And many are the husbandmen in our houses,
9^c And our granaries are (brim)full as with water.”
10. Yea, and like water your lies shall flow away;
For your riches shall not abide,
But speedily ascend from you;
For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,
And ye shall be given over to a great curse.
XCVIII. _Self-indulgence of Sinners: Sin originated by Man: all Sin
recorded in Heaven: Woes for the Sinners._
XCVIII. 1. And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,
For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.
2. For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,
And coloured garments more than a virgin:
In royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And in silver and in gold and in purple,
And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.
3. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,
And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions;
And with all their glory and their splendour,
And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,
Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
4. I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a
slave,
And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,
Even so sin has not been sent upon the earth,
But man of himself has created it,
And under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.
5. And barrenness has not been given to the woman,
But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without
children.
6. I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,
That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,
And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.
7. And do not think in your spirit, nor say in your heart, that ye do
not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in
heaven in the presence of the Most High. 8. From henceforth ye know that
all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till
the day of your judgement.
9. Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye
transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
10. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction:
wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die;
for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great
judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
11. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat
blood:
Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled?
From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in
abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace. 12. Woe to you
who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good hap
unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the
righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no
mercy upon you. 13. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the
righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. 14. Woe to you who set at
nought the words of the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life.
15. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write
down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their)
neighbour. 16. Therefore they shall have no peace, but die a sudden
death.
XCIX. _Woes pronounced on the Godless, the Lawbreakers: evil Plight of
Sinners in the last Days: further Woes._
XCIX. 1. Woe to you who work godlessness,
And glory in lying, and extol them:
Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
2. Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,
And transgress the eternal law,
And transform themselves into what they were not [into sinners]:
They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
3. In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as
=a= memorial,
And place them as a testimony before the angels,
That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the
Most High.
4. In those days the nations shall be stirred up,
And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of
destruction.
5. And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off
their children,
And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish
through them:
Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings,
and not return to them,
And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
6. And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day
of unceasing bloodshed. 7. And they who worship stones, and grave images
of gold and silver and wood ‹and stone› and clay, and those who worship
impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to
knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.
8. And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their
hearts,
And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts,
And through visions in their dreams.
9. Through these they shall become godless and fearful;
For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,
And shall have worshipped a stone:
Therefore in an instant shall they perish.
10. But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of
wisdom, and understand them,
And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His
righteousness,
And become not godless with the godless;
For they shall be saved.
11. Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For you shall be slain in Sheol.
12. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;
For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
13. Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of
others,
And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;
I tell you ye shall have no peace.
14. Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their
fathers,
And whose souls follow after idols;
For they shall have no rest.
15. Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression,
And slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
16. For He shall cast down your glory,
And bring affliction on your hearts,
And shall arouse =His fierce indignation=,
And destroy you all with the sword;
And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
C. _The Sinners destroy each other: Judgement of the fallen Angels: the
Safety of the Righteous: further Woes for the Sinners._
C. 1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with their
sons shall be smitten,
And brothers one with another shall fall in death,
Till the streams flow with their blood.
2. For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and
his son’s sons,
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured
brother:
From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
3. And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of
sinners,
And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
4. In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places,
And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin,
And the Most High will arise on that day of Judgement,
To execute great judgement amongst sinners.
5. And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians
from amongst the holy angels,
To guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,
And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to
fear.
6. And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise =in
security=,
And shall understand all the words of this book,
And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them
In the overthrow of their sins.
7. Woe to you, sinners, on the day of strong anguish,
=Ye who= afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:
Ye shall be requited according to your works.
8. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who watch in order to devise wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you,
And there shall be none to help you.
9. Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,
And on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness has
wrought,
In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
10. And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your
deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in
reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on
the righteous. 11. And He will summon to testify against you every cloud
and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you
from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your sins. 12.
And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from
descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and
silver from you that it may descend. 13. When the hoar-frost and snow
with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues
fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
CI. _Exhortation to the Fear of God: all Nature fears Him, but not the
Sinners._
CI. 1. Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the
Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence. 2. If He
closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from
descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then? 3. And if
He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition
Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness:
therefore ye shall have no peace. 4. And see ye not the =sailors= of the
ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are
shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble? 5. And therefore do they
fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and
they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and
they will perish therein.
6. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the
work of the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and
confined it throughout by the sand? 7. And at His reproof it is afraid
and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; but ye sinners
that are on the earth fear Him not. 8. Has He not made the heaven and
the earth, and all that is therein? Who has given understanding and
wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea? 9. Do not
the =sailors= of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most
High.
CII. _Terrors of the Day of Judgement: the adverse Fortunes of the
Righteous on the Earth._
CII. 1. In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you,
Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
And when He launches forth His word against you,
Will you not be affrighted and fear?
2. And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,
And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
3. And all the †angels shall execute their commands†
And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great
Glory,
And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;
And ye sinners shall be accursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace.
4. Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.
5. And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief,
And that in your life your body fared not according to your
goodness,
But =wait for= the day of the =judgement= of sinners,
And for the day of cursing and chastisement.
6. And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:
“As we die, so die the righteous,
And what benefit do they reap for their deeds?
7. Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,
And what have they more than we?
From henceforth we are equal.
8. And what will they receive and what will they see for ever?
Behold, they too have died,
And henceforth for ever shall they see no light.”
9. I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and
sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. 10. Have
ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of
violence is found in them till their death? 11. “Nevertheless they
perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits
descended into Sheol in tribulation.”
CIII. _Different Destinies of the Righteous and the Sinners: fresh
Objections of the Sinners._
CIII. 1. Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of
the Great and Honoured and Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness
I swear to you:
2. I know a mystery
And have read the heavenly tablets,
And have seen the holy books,
And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:
3. That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,
And written down for the spirits of those who have died in
righteousness,
And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your
labours,
And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.
4. And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live
and rejoice,
And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before
the face of the Great One
Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear
their contumely.
5. Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,
If ye die in the wealth of your sins;
And those who are like you say regarding you:
“Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days.
6. And now they have died in prosperity and in wealth,
And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life;
And they have died in honour,
And judgement has not been executed on them during their life.”
7. Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol,
And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation.
8. And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is
grievous judgement shall your spirits enter;
And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the
world.
Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.
9. Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:
“In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced
every trouble,
And met with much evil and been consumed,
And have become few and our spirit small.
10. And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us
even with a word:
We have been tortured [and destroyed], and hoped not to see life
from day to day.
11. We hoped to be the head and have become the tail:
We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil;
And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous,
And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.
12. They have had dominion over us that hated us †and smote us;
And to those that hated us† we have bowed our necks,
But they pitied us not.
13. We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at
rest,
But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.
14. And we complained to the rulers in our tribulation,
And cried out against those who devoured us;
But they did not attend to our cries,
And would not hearken to our voice.
15. And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who
made us few; and they concealed their oppression, and they did not
remove from us the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us and
murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered not that
they had lifted up their hands against us.”
CIV. _Assurances given to the Righteous: Admonitions to Sinners and the
Falsifiers of the Words of Uprightness._
CIV. 1. I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for
good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written
before the glory of the Great One. 2. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were
put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the
lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals
of heaven shall be opened to you. 3. And in your cry, cry for judgement,
and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on
the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. 4. Be
hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the
angels of heaven. 5. What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have
to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as
sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the
generations of the world. 6. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see
the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not
companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall
become companions of the hosts of heaven. 7. And, although ye sinners
say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and written down,”
nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day. 8. And now I
show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins.
9. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of
uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor
take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness
issue not in righteousness, but in great sin. 10. And now I know this
mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness
in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practise great
deceits, and write books concerning their words. 11. But when they write
down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or
minish aught from my words, but write them all down truthfully—all that
I first testified concerning them. 12. Then, I know another mystery,
that books shall be given to the righteous and the wise to become a
cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. 13. And to them shall the
books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them,
and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths
of uprightness be recompensed.’
CV. _God and the Messiah to dwell with Man._
CV. 1. In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the
children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye
are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. 2. For I and My
Son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in
their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of
uprightness. Amen.
FRAGMENT OF THE BOOK OF NOAH. (CVI-CVII.)
CVI. 1. And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son
Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. 2. And his body
was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his
head †and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful†.
And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun,
and the whole house was very bright. 3. And thereupon he arose in the
hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and †conversed with† the Lord of
righteousness. 4. And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and
came to his father Methuselah. 5. And he said unto him: ‘I have begotten
a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of
the God of heaven; and his nature is different, and he is not like us,
and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is
glorious. 6. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from
the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the
earth. 7. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore
thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the
truth, for his dwelling-place is amongst the angels.’ 8. And when
Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the
earth; for he had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud, and I
heard his voice and I came to him. And I said unto him: ‘Behold, here am
I, my son, =wherefore= hast thou come to me?’ 9. And he answered and
said: ‘Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and
because of a disturbing vision have I approached. 10. And now, my
father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like
of whom there is none, and his nature is not like man’s nature, and the
colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a
rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes
are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon
lighted up the whole house. 11. And he arose in the hands of the
midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. 12. And
his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that
he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of
heaven; and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me
the truth.’ 13. And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: ‘The Lord will
do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision,
and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of
the =angels= of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. 14. And behold
they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with
women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have
begotten children by them. 17. And they shall produce on the earth
giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and
there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be
cleansed from all impurity. 15. Yea, there shall come a great
destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a
great destruction for one year. 16. And this son who has been born unto
you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved
with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die [he and his
sons shall be saved]. 18. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he
who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he
shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the
destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin
and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in
his days. 19. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness
than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the
mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed
me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
CVII. 1. And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall
transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression
is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good
comes upon it. 2. And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech
that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this)
is no lie.’ 3. And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father
Enoch—for he had shown to him everything in secret—he returned and
showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will
comfort the earth after all the destruction.
CVIII. AN APPENDIX TO THE BOOK OF ENOCH.
CVIII. 1. Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for
those who will come after him, and keep the law in the last days. 2. Ye
who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of
those who work evil, and an end of the might of the transgressors. 3.
And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be
blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their
seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and
they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic
wilderness, and =in the fire shall they burn=; for there is no earth
there. 4. And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by
reason of its depth I could not †look over†, and I saw a flame of fire
blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and
sweeping to and fro. 5. And I asked one of the holy angels who was with
me and said unto him: ‘What is this shining thing? for it is not a
heaven, but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping
and crying and lamentation and strong pain.’ 6. And he said unto me:
‘This place which thou seest—here are cast the spirits of sinners and
blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert
every thing that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the
prophets—(even) the things that shall be. 7. For some of them are
written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may
read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits
of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been
recompensed by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked
men: 8. Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the
good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to
torture. 9. Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly
food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived
accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found
pure so that they should bless His name. 10. And all the blessings
destined for them I have recounted in the books. And He hath assigned
them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved
heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden
under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them
and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me. 11. And now I will summon
the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I
will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were
not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness deserved. 12. And
I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name,
and I will seat each on the throne of his honour. 13. And they shall be
resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement
of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation
of upright paths. 14. And they shall see those who were born in darkness
led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. 15. And the
sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed shall
go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.’
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