Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
CIV. 1. I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for
good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written
before the glory of the Great One. 2. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were
put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the
lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals
of heaven shall be opened to you. 3. And in your cry, cry for judgement,
and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on
the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. 4. Be
hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the
angels of heaven. 5. What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have
to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as
sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the
generations of the world. 6. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see
the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not
companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall
become companions of the hosts of heaven. 7. And, although ye sinners
say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and written down,”
nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day. 8. And now I
show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins.
9. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of
uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor
take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness
issue not in righteousness, but in great sin. 10. And now I know this
mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness
in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practise great
deceits, and write books concerning their words. 11. But when they write
down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or
minish aught from my words, but write them all down truthfully—all that
I first testified concerning them. 12. Then, I know another mystery,
that books shall be given to the righteous and the wise to become a
cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. 13. And to them shall the
books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them,
and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths
of uprightness be recompensed.’
CV. _God and the Messiah to dwell with Man._
CV. 1. In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the
children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye
are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. 2. For I and My
Son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in
their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of
uprightness. Amen.
FRAGMENT OF THE BOOK OF NOAH. (CVI-CVII.)
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