2 Enoch 61
2 Enoch 61
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Lnoch admonishes his Sons to preserre themselves from Un-
righteousness, and to stretch out thei hands frequently to the Poor, and to give them something from their Labours.|
LXI. 1. Now therefore, my children, preserve your hearts from every unrighteousness which the Lord hates. As a man asks his soul from God, so let him do to every living
soul’, 2. * For in the world to come, *I know all things
LX, ! A inserts this title after verse 1. 2 Bom. 3 B adds but when a man is in Paradise he is liable to judgement no more. * Shall not lose the punishment for it in the day of judgement for ever, Sok. B OMITS VERSES 2-5.
LX. ° B adds Even if it be not for eternal life.
strangling beasts. 5. Bestialitymay and its punishment. 5. Ci. VPs. be here referred to. ci. 5.
LX. 1. The sim referred to in LXI. 1. Unrighteousness which 1 Thess. iv. 6. 38. Cf. Pss. ix. 15; the Lord hates. Cf. Jud. v. 17;
xxxv. 8; lvii. 6. In this verse and the next two there is an ntier want of proportion between the sin
Ecelus, xv.11,13. 2. In the world to come… many mansions. Cf. Hth. En, xxxix. 4, 7, 8; xli. 2; John
how that! there.are many mansions prepared for men;
- good for the good; evil for the evil; many and without number ”. 3. Blessed are those who shall go to the mansions of the blessed®; for in the evil ones there is no rest nor any means of return from them. children, both small and great: When a man * conceives a good thought in his heart and brings* gifts before the Lord of his labours—if his hands have not wrought them ® then the Lord turns away His face from the labour of his hands, and *he cannot gain advantage from® the work of his hand. 5. But if his hands have wrought, but his heart murmurs *and he does not make an offering of his heart, but murmurs” continually, he has no success.
- Listen, my
[Llow it is proper to bring one’s Gifts with Faith, and how