2 Enoch 45
2 Enoch 45
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
God shows that He does not wish Sacrifices from Man, nor Burnt-Offerings, but pure and contrite Hearts
XLV. 1. *He who hastens and brings his offering before the face of the Lord, then the Lord will hasten the accomplish- ment of his work, and will execute a just judgement for him?. 2. He who increases his lamp before the face of the Lord, the Lord increases greatly his treasure *in the heavenly kingdom *. 3. God does not require bread, nor a light, * nor an animal, nor any other sacrifice >, * for it is as nothing ®. 4. * But God requires a pure heart *, and by means of all this, He tries the heart of man.
1 Hang as on a balance, that is on the scale and which stands for traffic, Sok. B omMITS ENTIRE VERSE. * Its measure shall receive its reward, Sok.
XLV. °* If a man hastens to work folly before the Lord, the Lord furthers him in the carrying out of his work, and makes his judgement faulty. So A through a corruption of IpwHoch into mpacHo and insertion of He before coTBOpHTb; B om. * B om. 5 Nor food of any kind nor meat, B. Nor an animal, nor an ox, nor any other victim, Sok. ° That is not so, Sok.; Bom.
XLV. 3. Cf. Ps. xl. 6; li. 16; Ecclus. xxxii. 1-5 side by side with
Is. i. 11; Mic. vi. 6-8; Eccl. xxxii. 1-3; Orac. Sibyll. vili. 390, 391 ob xpnlw Ovoins } owovdas iperé- pup ob kvioans puapis, obx atparos €xOi- OTOLO: also ii. 82; -~Athenag. Supplic. pro Christo, 13. This is not Essenism: see lix. 1-3. We find the same spiritual appreciation of sacrifices in
injunctions ta offer them: 6 owrn- pay vépov mAcovale: mpoopopds, Oucid- Cav owrnpiou 6 mpooéxuy évrokais av7a.- wodisobs yep mpoodepoy oepidady, kat 6 moa éXenpoodvay Ovaid{ay ai- véoews kal éfidacyds dmoorHvat and movnpias, 4. A pure heart. Ps. li. 10. Tries the heart of man. Deut. vili. 2; 2 Chron. xxxii. 31; Ps, xxvi. 2.
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