2 Enoch 52

2 Enoch 52
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)

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God instructs His faithful Servants how they are to praise Tis Name

LIT. 1. Blessed is the man who opens * his lips to praise the God of Sabaoth, and praises the Lord with his heart *. 2. Cursed is every man who opens his * lips to abuse and 3. Blessed ® is he who opens his lips to the blessing and praise of God! 4. Cursed is he who opens his lips to swearing and blasphemy before the face of the Lord all his days. 5. Blessed is he who

to calumniate his neighbour ®.

1 Bom. 2 Your Creator, A. in the indicative; B OMITS VEKSE.

LII. * Heart and lips to the praise of the Lord, B. 5 Heart to abuse, abusing the poor and calumniating his neighbour, Sok.; B sup- ports text but that it omits and to calumniate. Afternmeighbour A adds for him shall God rebuke. § B OMITS VERSES 3, 4.

$ For, Sok. ; Sok. also puts the verbs

rov Aiéov, Assist…in his affliction. Cf. Eeclus. iv. 4 inérny OAtBépevoy pr 3. Ecclus, ii. 4 way 8 édy énaxOy oot… paxpobdpnoov. Cf I Pet. ii. 19; iii, 14. Ch L.3. 4. Ps. lv. 17: Cf. Dan, vi. 10. These three Jewish honrs of prayer—the third (that of morning sacrifice), the sizth (noon), the ninth (that of even- ing sacrifice)—are observed in Acts 11,15; 111.1; x9. See Lightfoot in loe. for his Talmudic references. House of the Lord, This means the temple; for though the author is a Jew living in Egypt, he is writing

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for Judaism as a whole, and is giving herein the ideal conduct of an in- habitant of Jerusalem. In LIX. 2, 3, he prescribes the right method of sacrifice, and sacrifices could only he offeredin Jerusalem. 5, Every thing that, &. Ps. cl. 6.

LII. With these heatitudes com- pare xlii. 6~14. Like the latter these are wanting in vigour. They seem to be in the main derived from Eccle- siasticus. 2. Cf. Wisdom i. 11 dd KkaTadadias eioacbe yAwoons. 4 Swearing and blasphemy. (Cf. Ecclus. xxiii. 9-12. 6. Ch Ecclus.

Chapters LI, 3—LIIT. 1. 69

blesses all the works of the Lord. 6. Cursed is he who speaks il] of ! the works of the Lord. 7. Blessed is he who * looks to raise his own hand for labour 2. 8. Cursed is he who looks to? make use of another man’s labour. g. Blessed is he who preserves the foundations of his fathers * ffom the beginning‘. 10. Cursed is he who breaks the enactments® of his fathers. 11. Blessed is he who * establishes peace and love ®, 12. Cursed is he who troubles those who * are at peace ’. 13. Blessed is he who

• does not speak peace with his tongue, but in his heart there is peace to all§! 14. Cursed is he who speaks peace with his tongue, but in his heart there is no peace®. 15. For all these things in measures and in books will be revealed in the day of the great judgement ?°,