2 Enoch 9
2 Enoch 9
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
The showing to Enoch of the Righteous, and the Place of Prayers
TX. ‘This place, Q Enoeh, is prepared for the righteous
1 Emended with Apoc. Pauli from its root; B omits; A and Sok. add in the going out towards earth Paradise is between corruptibility and incorruptibility. This is clearly a corrupt addition. See quotation from Apoe. Pauli in explanatory notes. * Two, A and Sok. See note 9 on p. 7 for text of B. 5’ A adds and the streame pour. * Sok. adds they go forth and are divided into forty (four P) and; B omits verse6. §° Sok. adds of the air. 6 A Sok. om. 7 Place, A. 8 Sok. adds in its fruit and every place is blessed. ® Angels guarding them, very bright in appearance, B. 10 Every day and hour, A; the whole day, Sok. 1 A adds lo! 22 Bom.
writer has tried to reduce to one organic conception the two originally different conceptions of the heavenly and the earthly Paradise. The latter seems to have been the older: Gen. ii, 8-17; Eth. En. xxxii. 3-6; Ixxvii. 3. The heavenly Paradise is referred to in Eth. En. Ix. 8; lxi, 12; Ixx. 3. Four streams which pour honey and milk and oil and wine. Cf. Apoc. Pauli (ed. Tischend. p. 52) Técoapes éxvxAouvv aitiv, péovres pédAt wal yada xal gAatov xal oivovy, These four streams are taken over into the Koran xlvii, save that
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instead of a river of oil there is a river of incorruptible water. The earthly Paradise is said to be be- tween corruptibility and incor- tuptibility, because existence in it was a probation and might issue either in corruptibility or incorrupti- bility : or because it lay on the con- fines of the regions of corruptibility and incorruptibility. 7. Another tree… distilling oil: Cf. xxi. 7. These are the arbor misericordiae and the olewm misericordiae of Evang, Nicodemi ii. 3: cf. ch. xxii. 8.
IX. 1. Preparedfor the righteous:
who endure * every kind of attack! *in their lives? * from those who * afflict their souls: who turn away their eyes from unrighteousness, and accomplish a rightcous judgement, and also give bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked, and raise the fallen, and assist the * orphans who are * oppressed, and who walk * without blame * before the face of the Lord, and serve him ouly. For them this place is prepared as an eternal inheritance.’
[Here they showed Enoch the terrible Places, and various