4. _Enoch_ said, Hear, my children, every word of your father, and
listen in uprightness to the voice of my mouth; for I would gain your
attention, while I address you. My beloved, be attached to integrity,
and walk in it.
5. Approach not integrity with a double heart; nor be associated with
double-minded men: but walk, my children, in righteousness, which will
conduct you in good paths; and be truth your companion.
6. For I know, that oppression will exist and prevail on earth; that on
earth great punishment shall in the end take place; and that there shall
be a consummation of all iniquity, which shall be cut off from its root,
and every fabric _raised by_ it shall pass away. Iniquity, however,
shall again be renewed, and consummated on earth. Every act of crime,
and every act of oppression and impiety, shall be a second time
embraced.
7. When therefore iniquity, sin, blasphemy, tyranny, and every _evil_
work, shall increase, and _when_ transgression, impiety, and uncleanness
also shall increase, _then_ upon them all shall great punishment be
inflicted from heaven.
8. The holy Lord shall go forth in wrath, and upon them all shall great
punishment from heaven be inflicted.[238]
9. The holy Lord shall go forth in wrath, and with punishment, that he
may execute judgment upon earth.
10. In those days oppression shall be cut off from its roots, and
iniquity with fraud shall be eradicated, perishing from under heaven.
11. Every place of strength[239] shall be surrendered with its
inhabitants; with fire shall it be burnt. They shall be brought from
every part of the earth, and be cast into a judgment of fire. They shall
perish in wrath, and by a judgment overpowering them[240] for ever.
12. Righteousness shall be raised up from slumber; and wisdom shall be
raised up, and conferred upon them.
13. Then shall the roots of iniquity be cut off; sinners perish by the
sword; and blasphemers be annihilated everywhere.[241]
14. Those who meditate oppression, and those who blaspheme, by the sword
shall perish.[242]
15. And now, my children, I will describe and point out to you the path
of righteousness and the path of oppression.
16. I will again point them out to you, that you may know what is to
come.
17. Here now, my children, and walk in the path of righteousness, but
shun that of oppression; for all who walk in the path of iniquity shall
perish for ever.
Footnote 237:
Paris MS.
Footnote 238:
This verse is wanting in the Paris MS. as transcribed by Woide. It
seems in the Bodleian MS. to be a mere lapse of the transcriber, who
wrote the same words twice over.
Footnote 239:
_tower_, _palace_, or _temple_.
Footnote 240:
_powerful judgment._
Footnote 241:
_cut off._
Footnote 242:
Between the 14th and 15th verses of this chapter six others are
inserted both in the Bodleian and Paris MSS., which I have transposed
so as to constitute the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th verses
of the ninety-second chapter. This transposition seemed absolutely
necessary to make sense of that chapter; in which, after the
enumeration of seven weeks, or periods, the account of the eighth,
ninth, and tenth weeks, contained in the verses transposed, seemed
necessary to complete the narrative. Here they are clearly unconnected
and misplaced.