2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 145

LXIII. ° He works for himself a double destruction and when he gives anything to a man there shall be no reward for that which he has given, A. B reads He renders his deeds of mercy profitless. 7 Nay more if food fill his heart to the full or his fleshis clothed, A. If he be- comes overfed. B. δ᾽ His good works, B. 39 Does not return with gratitude the benefits he has received, A. Gains nothing, B. 10 B om. 1 And every lying word is sharpened with unrighteousness, and is cut with the sharpness of a deadly sword, and that cutting has no healing for ever, Sok. Bom. LXII. 1. Forgiveness is not the LXIII. 1. See ix (notes). 2. message of this book. For most sins See Ixi. 5 (note). 4. The Lord there is no pardon. 2. Words out hates, &c. Pss. xviii. 27; cl. 5; of season. The text is hopeless here. Prov. vi. 16, 17. Οὐ ΡΥ ΒΟ 7... 235 LXV, 2. 79 [How the Lord calls Enoch: the People take Counsel to go to kiss him in the Place called Achuzan.] LXIV. 1. When Enoch said these words to his sons, * and the princes of the people?, all the people * far and near? heard how the Lord ealled Enoch. And® they took counsel, *and they all said*: ‘Let us go and kiss Enoch!’ 2. And the men assembled to the number of 2000°, and came to the place Achuzan °, where Enoch was, and his sons. 2: And! the elders of the people® *came together and made obeisance and® kissed Enoch, and said to him: ‘* Enoch, our father? ; be thou blessed of the Lord, the eternal King!’ 4. And now bless thy *sons, and all the’ people, that we may be glorified * before thee to-day. 5. For thou art glorified? before the face of the Lord *for ever!; since God has chosen thee * above all men upon the earth, and has ap- pointed thee? as *the scribe of His creation of visible and invisible things, and γι avenger!” of the sins of men, * and a succour to thy family?!’ And Enoch answered all his people saying ® : [Of the Exhortation of Enoch to his Sons.] LXV. 1. ‘ Listen, my children : before that anything existed * and all creatures were made, the Lord made ™ all things both visible and invisible. 2. * When the times of these things