2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 12

In the anonymous writing De montilus Sina et Sion 4, we have most probably another trace of the influence of our text in this century. In this treatise the derivation of Adam’s name from the initials of the four quarters of the earth is given at length. This derivation appears probably for the first time in literature in xxx. 13 (see note). In the fourth century there are undoubted indications of its use in the Apocalypse of Paul (ed. Tischend. 1866). Thus the statement, p. 64, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ παράδεισος, ἔνθα. . . δένδρον παμμεγέθη (sic) ὡραῖον, ἐν ᾧ ἐπανεπαύετο τὸ πϑεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον is beyond the possibility of question a Christian adaptation of the Slavonic Enoch vill. 3: ‘And in the midst (of Paradise is) the tree of life, in that place, on which God rests, when He comes into Paradise. Again the words, p. 64, ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης αὐτοῦ ἐξήρχετο... ὕδωρ, μεριζόμενον εἰς τέσσαρα ὀρύγ- pata, and p. 52: ποταμοὶ τέσσαρες... . ῥέοντες μέλι καὶ γάλα καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ οἶνον, are almost verbal reproductions of our text, vill. 5: ‘From its root in the garden there go forth four streams which pour honey and milk, oil and wine, and are separated in four directions. With two characteristic features of hell in this Apocalypse, i.e. οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖ φῶς and 6 πυρινὸς ποταμός (pp. 57; 58), we may compare x. 1 of our text: ‘And there was no light there... and a fiery river goes forth.’ The peculiar speculation of St. Augustine in the De Civ. Xxli. 30. 5 seems to be derived ultimately from xxxiil. 2 (see notes). Compare with xxxiil. 2 especially the words: ‘ Haec tamen septima erit sabbatum nostrum cuius finis non erit vespera, sed dominicus dies velut octavus aeternus.’ In the early part of the third and in the second century there is the following evidence of the existence of our text. Thus in the Sibylline Oracles, ii. 75 ὀρφανικοῖς χήραις τ᾽ ἐπι- δευομένοις τε παράσχου, and 88 σὴν χεῖρα πενητεύουσιν ὄρεξον are too closely parallel to 1. 5—li, 1, ‘Stretch out your hands to the orphan, the widow [and the stranger, B om.]. Stretch out your hands to the poor,’ to be accidental. b.2 χα [he Book of the Secrets of Enoch.