2 Enoch 62
2 Enoch 62
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Llow it is proper to bring one’s Gifts with Faith, and how there is no Repentance after Death
LXII. 1. Blessed is the man who in patience shall bring
1 I know that, Sok.; B om. and the evil, B. it in his heart to bring, Sok. ble for him to find, Sok. and making a murmur, Sok.
xiv. 2. Good for the good, evil for the evil. This is adapted from Ecclus. xxxix. 25 dyad rois ayabois éxTioTa a apy7s, oTws Tots apapTw- Aois xaxa, Of. Or. Sibyl]. Fragm. iii. 18-19 ois dyaois dyady mpo- pépwy mod mAciova pucOdy, rois 5é Kakois ddixots Te XOAov. 4. The text seems corrupt. The idea is: it is a good thing to offer gifts to God; but if a man sacrifice to God that which ig another man’s or is gotten wrong- fully, God turns away His face from him. Cf.lxvi.2. The author appears to have had before him Ecclus. xxxi. 21 Ouord{aw ef ddixov, mpoopopa pepwrnpévyn, 22 nal obx els ebSoxiay porhpara dyéyov.. 23 ovx ebdoxer 6 tyoros év mpaopopais daeRor,
2 Numberless abodes for the good 3B OMITS THE REST OF THE CHAPTER.
5 The labour, Sok. ?7 The sickness of his heart will not cease
- Sets § It is impossi-
Further in ver. 24. 6 mpocayev Ovaiay éx XpyuaTay mev7Tav is condemned. Finally with he cannot gain advan- tage from, &c., compare ver. 28 ri dgpéAnoav mheiuy 7 Kowov; If his hands have not wrought them. Cf. Or. Sibyll. viti. 403, 406 : Tovrw pey xadapiy Gis avaipaxrov Te TpaTelay éx =pdxGav ibiav mopioas d-yvais TAAGPNOW. 5. Men must offer willingly: only those are blessed. Cf. Exod. xxv. 2; xxxv. 5; Prov.xi. 25. But his heart murmurs. Op. Ixiii. 2; Deut. xv. Io ‘ thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest untohim.’ Ecclus,xxxii.10, 11 éy dyadG dpOadpa bdgacor rdv KUpioy .. «kal év eippooivy dyiacoy Sexaryy,
78 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
his gifts’ before the face of the Lord,. for he shall avert the recompense of his sin. 2. If he speaks words out of season? * there is no repentance for him: if he lets the appointed time? pass and does not * perform the work, he is not blessed; for there is no repentance after death. 3. For every deed which a man does * unseasonably is® an offence before men, and a sin before God.
[How one must not despise the Humble, but give to them truly,