2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 129

is no swearing in me, nor injustice, but truth. If there is no truth in men, let them swear by a word, yea, yea, or nay, nay. 2. * But I swear to you, yea, yea’, that * there has not been even a man in his mother’s womb, for whom a place has not been prepared for every soul?; * and a measure is fixed *O! my children, be not deceived! * there is a place prepared there how long a man shall be tried in this world °. for every soul of man *. [How Nobody born upon the Earth can hide himself, nor are his Deeds concealed. (God) commands that he should be on the Earth a short time, endure Temptation, and Annoyance, and not injure the Widow and Orphan.| L. 1. I have laid down in the writings the actions of every man, *and no one born on the earth can hide himself, nor can his deeds be concealed ; I see all®. 2. Now, therefore, my children, in patience and meekness accomplish the number of your days, and ye shall inherit the endless life which is to come. 3. * Every wound, and every afiliction, and every 1B om: 2 So A Sok. but that for every A reads the rest of that. Breads Even before man was created a place of judgement was prepared for him. 3 And a measure and a standard how long a man shall live in this world, and shall be tried in it, Sok. ; And it was mea- sured out and fixed, and there man will be tried, B. * So A Sok. but that Sok. adds previously after place. Breads As before it was appointed for him. L. ° Bom.; Sok. adds as in a looking-glass. that first called my attention to these passages in Philo. On the forms of swearing usual among the Jews and censured in Mt. v. 33-36 and indirectly in the text, see Lightfoot in loc.; Eisen- menger, ii. 490 sqq. XLIX. 2. A place... prepared for every soul. So Tractut Chagiga, fol. 15, col. 1; Torath Adam, fol. 101, col. 3; Avudath haklodesh, fol. 19, col. 1, where it is said that a place various is prepared for every man either in Paradise or Hell (Eisenmenger, 1]. 315)-