2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 146

LXIV. ! A om. ? And all his neighbours, B. For how the Lord, B reads how the Lord God. 5. Bron 4 Saying, B; A om. > 4000, B. 6 Asukhan, B. 7 A adds all the host of. 5 Sok. adds and all the host. 5 Bom. 10 One who removes, A B. XLV. 11 The Lord made the world and then created, B. The Lord made, A. LXIV. 5. Scribe of His creation. in note on XL. 13. The reading, See xl. 13 (note); lili. 2. Avenger, however, of A B one who removes &e. This may refer to Enoch’s office may be right. Enoch may be con- at the final judgement when he re-_ ceived as a mediator. Cf. Philo’s counts all the deeds of men. See conception of the Logos i. 501. quotution from Test. Abraham given LXV. 1. Made. This must mean 80 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. had come and were passed, understand how? after all these things He made man in His own image *after His? like- ness, and placed in him eyes to see; and ears to hear; and a heart to understand, and reason” to take counsel. 3. And the Lord *contemplated the world for the sake of man °, and made all the creation* for his sake*, and divided * it into times. And from the times He made years, and from the years He made months, and from the months He made days, and of the days He made seven. 4. And in these He made the hours? *and divided them into small portions}, that a man should understand *the seasons, and compute years and months, and hours; their alternations and begin- nings and ends: and® that he should compute *his life from the beginning till death’, * and should meditate upon his sin, and should write down his evil and good deeds. 5. For nothing done is concealed before the Lord. Let each man know his deeds, and not transgress the commandments and let him keep My writings securely from generation to generation?. 6. When *all the creation of visible and invisible things* comes to an end which the Lord has made; then every man shall come to the great judgement of the Lord’. 7. Then?® the times shall perish, * and