2 Enoch 66 - The Ethics Continued: The Righteous Shall Inherit
2 Enoch 66
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Enoch instructs his Sons, and all the Elders of the People: how
with Fear and Trembling they ought to walk before the Lord, and serve Him alone, and not to worship Idols ; for
God made Heaven and Earth and every Creature and its form.|
LXVI. 1. And now, my children, preserve your souls from all unrighteousness, which the Lord hates®. Walk before His face with fear *and trembling 1°, and serve Him alone.
1 And the years moreover shall perish and the months and days and hours shall he dispersed and moreover shall not be counted, Sok. Forhours… counted A reads there shall be no hours nor shall there he any addition to them or calculation. * Bom. * And there shall be one everlasting time for the just and they shall live for ever, A. And there shall be everlasting life for the just, being eternal, Sok. After eternal B adds and incorruptible. * A adds nor violence; Sok. reads nor necessary anxiety nor constraint. 5 B adds unending and never disturbed. 6 Great, B Sok. 7 Bom. Sok. reads and there shall be the roof of the eternal habitation, and transposes to end of Chapter. § And incorruptible things shall come, Sok.
LXVI. ° B omits THE REST OF THE CHAPTER. 1° Sok. om. xxxiii. 2. 8-9. A blessed immor- LXVI. 1. Unrighteousness tality. 10. Wall. This may be the which the Lord hates, Cf. Dent. wall that divides Paradise (see ix) xii. 31; Wisdom xiv. 9. Walk
from the place of punishment (see x). 11. Cp. Eeclus. xiv. 19 wav épyov onmepevov éxdcires.
hefore His face with fear and trembling. Cf. Phil. ii. 12 ‘ work out your own salvation with fear and
82 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
- Worship the true God, and not dumb idols. 2. But pay attention to His command’, and bring every just: offer- ing before the face of the Lord. But the Lord hates that which is unrighteous. 3. For the Lord sees every thing ; whatever man meditates in his heart, *and what counsel he plans?, and every thought is continually before the Lord.
- *If ye look at the heavens there is the Lord, as the Lord made the heavens. If ye look at the earth then the Lord is there since the Lord made firm the earth and established every creatnre in it®. If ye scrutinize the depths of the sea, and every thing under the earth there also is the Lord. For the Lord created all things. 5. Do not bow down to the work of men, * nor to the work of the Lord 4, leaving *the Lord of all creation®; for no deed is concealed before the face of the Lord. 6. Walk, my children, in long suffering, in humility ®, in spite of calumny, and insult; in faith, and truth: in the promises, and sickness, in abuse, in wounds, in temptation, *in nakedness, in deprivation’, loving one another, till ye depart from this world of sickness. Then ye shall be heirs of eternity. 4. Blessed are the just, who shall escape the great judgement®! And they shall be seven times brighter than the sun, for in this age altogether the seventh part is separated. 8. (Now con- cerning) the light, the darkness, the food, the sweetnesses,
1 Sok. om. 2 Then his reason counsels, Sok. 3 So Sok. transposed and defective in A. Who made firm the earth, and established every
creature in it. 6 The works of the Lord, A. nakedness, Sok.
trembling.’ For fear and trembling cf, alvo 2 Cor, vii. 15; Eph. vi. 5. 2. Bring every just offering. See Ixi. 4 (note). 3. Sees every thing whatever man meditates, &. Cf. 1 Chron. xxviii. g; 2 Chron. vi. 30; Ps, xciv. 11; Prov. xv. 11; Dan. ii. 30. 4. Founded partly on Pe. cxxxix.
If ye look at the heavens there is the Lord, 5 A adds honour. 8 Sok. adds of the Lord.
- Aom. 7 Deprivation and
8-12. The author has rightly omitted all reference to Sheol as this is already included in his conception of the heavens. 5. No deed is concealed, &e. Cf. Jer. xvi. 17; Ecclns, xvii. 15. 6. Cf. Roin. viii. 35; 2 Cor. xi. 27; 2Pet.1.4. 7. Cf. lxv. 8. 8. Sweet- nesses, &c. Eth. En. lxix. 8.
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the bitternesses, the paradise, the tortures, * the fires, the frosts and other things}; *I have put? all this down in writing, that ye may read and understand.