2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 136

| Methosalem asks a Blessing of his Father ; that he may give him Bread to eat.| LVI. 1. Methosalem having answered his father Enoch said’; ‘If it is good in thine eyes, * my father!,* let me 1 Of the lips of your father, B. 2 Brom. LIV. ὁ That you may have an inheritance of peace and the books which I have given you from God, B. *Aom. ὃ Give, A. δ Sok. om. * Words cannot make known the works of God, B. LV. ὃ. B adds appointed by God. ®’ A reads after stand before me. 10 Who wish to go with me, A Sok. 1 So A Sok. but that before on the earth, A adds they now stand; B om. 12 Upper, B; A om. 13 A adds to the highest Jerusalem. LVI. * Bom. 15 Bnoch, Sok. LIV. See xxxiii. 9 (note). Works iV. 1. See xxxvi. 2. Highest ... wonderful. Jobxxxvii.14,16; heavens. Cf. Ixvii. 2. Ps, lxxi. 17, &e. 72 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. put food? before thy face and then, having blessed our houses and thy sons, *and all thy family ?, let thy people be glorified by thee; and then afterwards thou wilt depart, * as God hath said 3, 2. Enoch answered his son * Metho- salem and said *: ‘Hear my child, since God has anointed me with the oil of his glory, there has been no? food in me, *and my soul remembers nothing of earthly pleasure® nor do I desire * anything earthly ©. | Enoch orders his Son Methosalem to call all his Brothers. | LVII. τ. But? call all ® thy brothers, and all your® families, and the elders of the people, that I may speak to them and depart * as is appointed for τη ὃ. 2. And Methosalem hastened, and called his brethren, Regim, Riman?°, Ukhan?!, Khermion, | Gaidal 5]. and‘ the elders of 3 the people, * and brought them all’* before the face of his father Enoch 15. And having blessed them, he spake to them 15. | The Instruction of Enoch to his Sons.] LVIII. τ. ‘Listen to me, my sons. *In those days when the Lord came upon the earth for the sake of Adam, and visited 7 all his creation, which He Himself had made?%. 2. The Lord *° called all the cattle of the earth 31, and all 1 Let me do, A: let us put food, Sok. 2? A om. > As God wishes, Sok.; B om. * And said, Sok.; B om. > Bom. ‘* Earthly food, B.