2 Enoch 40
2 Enoch 40
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
The mournful Admonition of Enoch to his Sons, with Weeping and great Sorrow, speaking to them ®
XXXIX. 1. * Listen, my children, what things are ac- cording to the will of the Lord. I am sent to-day to you to tell you from the lips of the Lord, what was and what is happening now, and what will be before the day of
XXXVII. ! In a voice like thunder, B. 2 In appearance he was white as, A. 3 In appearance having great cold,Sok.; Bom. ‘* The great terror and awe, B. 5 For I could not, A; B omits justas… frost of the air. 6 B om.
XXXVIII. 7 B omits ENTIRE CHAPTER.
XXXIX. * The Instructions given by Enoch to his Sons, B.
is found in all the MSS.,is readin its it seems irrelevant to the entire text, present position in A Sok., but after XXVIII. 1. Cf. xxxvi. 2, xxxix in B. Ihave bracketed it as Cf. i. 2-4. 3. Cf. Eth. En. xci. 1,
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judgement. 2. Hear, my children, for I do not speak to you to-day from my lips, but from the lips of the Lord who has sent me to you. For you hear? *the words of my lips, a mortal man like yourselves ”. 3. * J have seen the face of the Lord as it were iron that is heated in the fire, and when brought out sends forth sparks and burns. 4. Look at the eyes of me’, *a man laden with a sign for you?.
- T have seen the eyes of the Lord shining like a ray of the sun and striking with terror human eyes. 5. You, my children, see the right hand of a man? * made like yourselves ®
- assisting you. I have seen the right hand of the Lord assisting me, and filling the heavens. 6. You see the
- compass of my actions, like to your own ®. I have seen the measureless and harmonious’ form of the Lord. To Him there is no end. 7. You therefore hear the words of my hps, but I have heard the words of the Lord, like great thunder, with continual agitation of the clouds. 8. And now, * my children %, listen to the ® discourses * of your earthly father. It is terrible and awful to stand before the face of an earthly prince—* terrible and very awful® because the will of the prince is death and the will of the prince is life? ; how much more is it terrible and awful to stand before the face of the * Lord of lords, and of the earthly 1° and the heavenly hosts. Who can endure this never-ending terror ?
- Hear, my children, my beloved ones, the admonition of your father: how according to the will of God, I am sent to you now. What exists and what was, and what is happening now, and what will be before the day of judgement, I do not now tell you from my own lips, but from the lips of the Lord; for the Lord sent metoyou. 2 And do you therefore hear, A. I waa sent of late to tell you from the lips of the Lord what things are, and what shall be before the day of judge- ment. And now, my children, I do not speak to you from my own lips, but from the lips of the Lord, B. 7? Bom.; Sok. adds Ihave heard from the flery lips of the Lord: for the lips of the Lord are like a fiery furnace, and his angels [winds| are a flame of fire going forth. You, my children, as that of a man made like yourselves, but. $B om.
- A man in hia marks just like you, Sok. ; B om. 5 A Bom. ® So A Sok., but that for actions Sok. reads body; Bom. 7’ Incomparable, B. B transposes 6° after 7. 8 My, B. * A om.; B adds or great terrors, and omits the rest of the verse. 10 Heavenly Ruler, the Lord of the living and the dead, A.
Chapters XX XIX. 2—XL. 6. 53