2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 105

Sabbatum nostrum, cuius finis non foundation to the lowest: οἵ. erit vespera, sed dominicus dies velut Ecclus. xviii. 1 6 ζῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα octavus aeternus. ... Ecce quod erit ἔκτισε τὰ πάντα κοινῇ, where κοινῇ is in fine sine fine.” For other specula- a rendering of }IM°, 4. My tions in reference to the world-week thought is without change. Num. see Evang. Nicodemi, ii. 12; Book xxiii. 19; 1 Sam. xv. 29; Ezek. xxiv. of Adam and Eve, I. iii. A time 14. My wisdom is My coun- when there is nocomputation... sellor. See xxx. 8 (note). Cf. neither years nor months, &c. Ecclus. xlii. 22 καὶ οὐ προσεδεήθη Sibyll. Or. viii. 424-427 may have οὐδενὸς συμβούλου. My word is been influenced by our text where it reality. So Eth. En. xiv. 22 (Gk.) speaks of the eternity of blessed- πᾶς λόγος αὐτοῦ ἔργον. Cf. Ps. xxxiii. ness : 9; Ecclus. xlii. 15 ἐν λόγοις κυρίου τὰ Οὐκ ἔτι λοιπὸν ἐρεῖς λυπούμενος ““αὔ- ἐἔργααὐτοῦ. My eyes see all things: ριον ἔσται,᾽" ef. Ecclus. xxxix. 19. If I turn Οὐκ “ ἐχθὲς γέγονεν" οὐκ ἤματα moA- away My face, &c. Ps. civ. 29 Ad μερίμνης, ‘Thou hidest Thy face, they are 48 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. thee, and what thou hast seen from the lowest heaven up to My throne. 7. For I have created all the hosts, and all the powers, and there is none that opposes Me, or is disobedient to Me. My rule alone. 8. Give! them the works written out by thee, *and they shall read them, and know Me to be the Creator of all; and shall understand that there is no other God beside Me?. g. * They shall distribute the books of thy writing to their children’s children?, and from generation to. * And I will give thee, Enoch, My messenger, the great captain Michael, For all are obedient to My sole power, and labour for to generation, and from nation to nation. for thy writings and for the writings of thy fathers, Adam, Seth, Enos, Kainan, Malaleel, and Jared, thy father ¢. ΤῊ: * And I shall not require them till the last age, for I have instructed My two angels, Ariukh and Pariukh, whom I have 12, And I have ordered them in time to guard them that the account of what I shall put upon the earth as their guardians.