2 Enoch 38
2 Enoch 38
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
XXXVIT. 1. And God called one of His greatest angels
1 Bom. 2 Another, Sok. 3 That, B. XXXVI. * Sok. adds of preparation. guardest in thy heart. 5 Bom. A Sok. 3 To Me, A Sok.
B adds all that thou 7 Angel, A Sok. 8 He,
Noah. 2. On the extinction of that family. This seems to refer to
period of the sword and the disclosure of Enoch’s books introduces the Mes-
the destrnc‘ion of the wicked during the period of the sword. Abont the same time the books of Enoch were to be given to the righteons, See for the same connexion of ideas Eth. En. xeiii.g, 10; xci.12. The guardians. See xxxiii. g, rr (notes), 3. The
Sianic age.
XXXVI. 1. In Eth, En. Ixxxi. 6 the period is one year. Read and understand, &c.: cf. Eth. En. Ixxxli. I~3. 2. Cf. Eth. En. lxxxi, 6.
XXXVII. This chapter, which
- terrible and awful!, and placed him by me, *and the appearance of that angel was like? snow, and his hands were like ice; *he had a very cold appearance *, and my face was chilled because I could not endure * the fear of the Lord *; *just as it is not possible to® endure the mighty fire and heat of the sun, and the frost of the air. 2. And the Lord said to me, ‘ Enoch, if thy face is not chill here, no man can look upon thy face °.’|
[Mathusal hal Hope, and awaited his Father Enoch by his