2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 107

XXXIV. τ. * For I know the wickedness of men that they will not bear the yoke which I have put upon them, nor sow the seeds which I have given them, but will cast off My yoke and accept another, and sow vain seeds and bow to vain gods, and deny Me the only God!. 2. And they will fill all the world with * wickedness and iniquity, and foul impurities with one another, sodomy and all other impure practices, which it is foul to speak about ”. 3. And on this account I will bring a deluge upon the earth * and I will destroy all *, and* the earth shall be destroyed in great corruption. [ God leaves one Just Man from the Family of Enoch, with all his House, which pleased God according to His Will.) XXXV. 1. And I will leave a righteous man *of thy race ®, with all his house who shall act according to My will. From XXXIV. ! Sok. supports text but that it omits nor sow ... given them. A reads: They turned from My law and My yoke and raised up worthless races such as feared not God nor worshipped Me, but began to bow before vain gods, and denied Me, the only God. 2 Unjust deeds and harlotries and services of idols, B; Sok. adds and evil ser- vice. 3. B Sok. omit. * A adds all. XXXV. > A Bom. differently applied : ἀνέγνων ἐν γραφῇ ayia Ἐνώχ, ὅτι καίγε καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀπο- name is found in Gen. xiv. I, 9; Dan. ii. 14. The derivation is doubt- ful, being éri-aku = servant of the moon-god (Delitzsch), or a compound from ‘NS; hence a lionlike man (Gesenius). XXXIV. 1. Cast off My yoke: ef, for phrase xlviii. 9; Ecclus. xxviii. 19, 20; Matt. xi. 29. Sow vain seeds. This is obscure. The words seem to be metaphorical and not to refer to Deut. xxii. 9. Deny, &c.: ef. Josh. xxiv. 27. 2. It is this verse that is referred to in Test. Napht. 4, though it is there somewhat