2 Enoch 63
2 Enoch 63
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
How one must not despise the Humble, but give to them truly so that thou mayest not be accursed before God
LXITI. 1. When a man clothes the naked and feeds the hungry, he gets a recompense from God. 2. If his heart murmurs, *he works for himself a double evil: he works destruction to that which he gives and there shall be no reward for it®: 3. * And the poor man, when his heart is satisfied or his flesh is clothed’ and he acts contemptuously, he destroys the effect of * all his endurance of poverty ® and
- shall not gain the blessing of a recompense ?®. 4. For the Lord hates every contemptuous * and proud-speaking 1° man: *and likewise every lying word: and that which is covered with unrighteousness. And it is cu6 with the sharpness of a deadly sword, and thrown into the fire, and burns for ever #1.
LXII. 1 A adds with faith. 2 If he rememhers the appointed time to utter his prayer, B. If hefore the time he recalls his word, Sok. ’ B omits, AND ALSO THE REST OF THE CHAPTER. * Act righteously, A. 5 Before the time and after the time is altogether, Sok.
LXIII. * He works for himself a double destruction and when he gives anything to a man there shall he no reward for that which he has given, A. B reads He renders his deeds of mercy profitless. 7 Nay more if food fill his heart to the full or his flesh is clothed, A. If he he- comes overfed. B. 8 His good works, B. ® Does not return with gratitude the benefits he has received, A. Gains nothing, B. 10 Bom. 1 And every lying word is sharpened with unrighteousness, and is cut with the sharpness of a deadly sword, and that cutting has no healing for ever, Sok. Bom.
LXII. 1. Forgiveness is not the LXIII. 1. See ix (notes). 2. message of this book. For most sins See Ixi. 5 (note). 4. The Lord there is no pardon. 2. Words out hates, &c. Pss, xviii, 27; ci. 5; of season. The text is hopelesshere. Prov. vi. 16, 17.
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