2 Enoch 51
2 Enoch 51
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Enoch instructs his Sons, not to hide their Treasures upon Earth, but lids them give Alms to the Needy
Li. 1. * Stretch out your hands to the poor man” according to your powers. 2. * Do not hide your silver in the earth”:
‘ Whatever wound or disease or affliction or evil end shall light upon you, B. Put away from you every wound and every injury and every evil word. If an attack and an injury be inflicted upon you for
the sake of the Lord, Sok. 2 Sok. adds an hundredfold. 3 Your neighbour, B; one who is near you or afar off, Sok. * Living God, B; Lord, Sok. > Great day of, A. 6 Therefore be not avenged here from men but then from the Lord, Sok. B om. 7 That
world, A Sok.
5 Do not oppress, A.
° Bom.; A adds lest the
wrath of God should come upon you.
LI. And assist the poor man, B; Sok. om.
ll Sok. reads in your
treasures after come upon you, B om.
Jam.i.12. Seeli.3. 4. Cp. Ecclus. Exvili, I 6 €éx8e@v aapd Kupiou evpnoe éxdixnow, kat rds dpaprtias z. apes Ginna Te wAnotoy gov, Kat Tore denévros gov ai duapria: gov AvOjoov- tat, See also verses 3-6. God will repay …in the day of the great judgement. These words follow the LXX of Deut. xxxii. 35 év jyépa éxdixyoews avranoiwow, The LXX thus read pow Op pwd instead of the Mass. nbwn op? °>. The Samaritan likewise reads Bi), Cp. also Prov. xx. 22; xxiv. 29. In Rom. xii. 19; Heb, x. 30, the writers follow a text of Deut. xxxii. 35 agree- ing partly with the Mass. and partly
aured d:actnpay biacrnpice.
with that implied hy the LXX,. 5. Whoever, &c. Cp. Prov. xix. 17: Ecclus. xxix. 10. See LI. 2 (note). Stretch out your hands to the orphan, &c. Orac. Sibyll. ii. 75 dppavikois xnpas 7° emBevopevas Te mapacxou. Cf. ix.
LI. 1. Stretch out your hands to the poor, &c. This is drawn from Ecclus. vii. 32 mrwyd Exrewvov THY xetpd. gov, which in turn seems drawn from Prov. xxxi, 20. Cf. Joh vii. g: Orac, Sibyll. ii. 88. <Ac- cording to your powers. (Cf. Ecclus. xiv. 135 xxix. 20. 2. Do not hide your silver in the earth. Cf. Ecclus. xxix. 10 dwdAeoov dpyipiov 5’ ddedpdv nai pidoy kal py iwPyre t0d
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*assist the honest man in his affliction, and affliction shall not come upon you, in the time of your labour. 3. And whatever violent and grievous yoke shall be put upon you, endure all for the Lord’s sake}, and so you will recelve your reward in the day of judgement. 4. Morning, afternoon, and evening, it is good to go into the house of the Lord to glorify *the Creator of all?. 5. Whete- fore * let every thing that hath breath glorify Him, and let every creature visible and invisible give forth praise.
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[ God instructs His faithful Servants how they are to praise