[80] _The Book of Enoch_, translated from Dillman’s text, with notes, by Charles. Oxford, 1893. See also _The Book of Enoch_, trans. Lawrence. Oxford, 1821. [81] Cp. the veil of fire and veil of ice in the doorway of Adamnán’s celestial city.--_F. A._ 14. [82] 2 Esdras iv. [83] _L.c._ ii. 12, 18-19; and cp. Isaiah xxv. 6; Revelation xxii. 2. [84] 2 Cor. xii. 2-4; and cp. Galatians i. 12, 16; Ephesians i. 3. [85] _E.g._ in Revelation ii. 7. ‘To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in Paradise’; and xxii. 2, ‘In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations’; also the Throne and One seated thereon in ch. iv., xx. 11; the sea of glass mingled with fire in ch. xv.; the city built of precious stones, etc. [86] _Vide_ Dante, _Inferno_, canto iv. [87] The fact that the work was most in repute in the Eastern Church, and that several of the leading Western fathers wrote of it in disparaging terms, may possibly be held to militate to some extent against this ascription. [88] This passage, so thoroughly Dantesque, reminds us curiously of chapters 9 and 12 of the _Vita Nuova_. Indeed, the little episode might almost be termed a painting of Dante and Beatrice executed by one of the primitives. In like manner, the passage that ensues recalls the reproaches which Beatrice addressed to Dante on meeting him in the Earthly Paradise at the close of the _Purgatorio_. [89] Herein the plan of the work accords to some extent with that of the _Book of Enoch_. [90] _Ante-Nicene Christian Library_, vol. xvi. p. 480. [91] Two Latin versions, together with the account of the pseudo-John, are translated in vol. xvi. of the _Ante-Nicene Christian Library_. [92] Using the word ‘people’ in its wider sense, not as equivalent to the _popolaccio_, for there were persons of rank and culture among the early converts, but as distinguished from those who were in high station, or were remarkable for learning. [93] _De Legibus_, II. xiv. 36. [94] See Plutarch’s Consolatory Epistle to his Wife. [95] Plutarch: _On Superstition, On the Tardy Vengeance of God, On the Impracticability of a Happy Life on Epicurean Principles._ Lucian: _Philopseudes, De Luctu_. [96] See _Ireland and the Celtic Church_, by Dr. G. T. Stokes; ed. 5, 1900, pp. 169-174. [97] _Op. cit._, p. 229, and cp. pp. 215-16. [98] Edited by Mr. Whitley Stokes in _Anecdota Oxoniensia_, _Mediæval and Modern Series_, vol. i., part 3. [99] G. T. Stokes, _op. cit._, pp. 228-9. For other points of resemblance and instance of communication between the Irish and the Eastern Churches, cited by the learned author, see pp. 105 _n._, 173-4, 186-7, 229, and Lecture x., _passim_.