2 Enoch 65 - The Ethics: Blessed Is He Who Plants Peace
2 Enoch 65
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Of the Exhortation of Enoch to his Sons
LXV. 1. ‘ Listen, my children : before that anything existed
- and all creatures were made, the Lord made 1 all things both visible and invisible. § 2. * When the times of these things
LXIV. ! A om. ? And all his neighbours, B. For how the Lord,
B reads how the Lord God. 3 A Bom. * Saying, B; A om. 5 4000, B. 6 Asukhan, B. T A adds all the host of. 8 Sok. adds and all the host. 9 Bom. 10 One who removes, A B.
XLV. 14 The Lord made the world and then created, B. The Lord made, A.
LXIV. 5. Scribe of His creation. in note on XL. 13. The reading, See xl. 13 (note); lili. 2. Avenger, however, of A B one who removes &c. This may refer to Enoch’s office may be right. En:ch may be con- ati the final judgement when he re- ceived as a mediator. Cf. Philo’s counts all the deeds of men. See conception of the Logos i. 501. quotution from Test. Abraham given LXV. 1. Made. This must mean
80 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
had come and were passed, understand how! after all these things He made man in His own image *after His? like- ness, and placed in him eyes to see; and ears to hear; and a heart to understand, and reason” to take counsel. 3. And the Lord contemplated the world for the sake of man %, and made all the creation * for his sake, and divided * it into times. And from the times He made years, and from the years He made months, and from the months He made days, and of the days He made seven. 4. And in these He made the hours® *and divided them into small portions}, that a man should understand * the seasons, and compute years and months, and hours; their alternations and begin- nings and ends: and® that he should compute *his life from the beginning till death’, *and should meditate upon his sin, and should write down his evil and good deeds. 5. For nothing done is concealed before the Lord. Let each man know his deeds, and not transgress the commandments and let him keep My writings securely from generation to generation’. 6. When *all the creation of visible and invisible things® comes to an end which the Lord has made; then every man shall come to the great judgement of the Lord °®. 7. Then? the times shall perish, * and
1 B om. 2 With his mind, A. 3 Saw all the works of man, A. Bom. * A om. B transposes it into next sentence. 5 Time for the sake of man, and determined the times and the years, and the months and the hours, B. 6 The changes of the times and the end and the beginning of the years, and the end and the days and hours, B. 7 The death of his life, B. ®§ The world, B. ® A om. 10 And then all, A.
‘ devised,’ if it is original, 2. Made blance to Wisdom vii. 17-18 aidrds ydp man in his ownimage…undet- édwxe… cldiva: …dpyhy xat rédas cal stand. This agrees too closely to be peodrnra ypivwv, rpanwy dddAaryads kal accidental with Ecclus. xvii. 3 «a7 jeraBodds xapoy. 5, See xxxiii. 9 elxdva aitot énainoey aira’s, 5… (note). 6. The judgement closes the bpOaArApols, wra Kal xopdiay gwxe existence of man on earth. At this davacic@a: airois. 4. Understand judgement all men must appear, but the seasons … beginnings and there is nothing to suggest that there ends. We have here a close resem- _is a resurrection of the body. 7. See
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there shal] be no year, nor month, nor day, and there shall be no hours nor shall they be reckoned !. 8. There shall be one eternity, and all the just * who shall escape the great judgement of the Lord ? shall be gathered together in eternal life and for ever and ever the just shall be gathered together and they shall be eternal °. g. Moreover there shall be no labour, nor sickness, nor sorrow, “nor anxiety, nor need, nor night, nor darkness, but a great® light. to. * And there shall be to them a great wall that cannot be broken down?; and bright ® *and incorruptible ? paradise *shall be their protection, and their eternal habitation’.
- For all corruptible things shall vanish ?, * and there shall be eternal life ®.