Iviii.-lxxi. — The Third Parable. — Endless light and life for righteous (Iviii. ). [Secrets of lightnings, anintrusion{\\x.).'\ [Noachic fragment(iov 'Enoch' read ' Noah' in Ix. 1). — The Head of Days on the throne of glory announces the judgment (Ix. 1-6, 25) ; Leviathan a female monster, and Behemoth a male, parted, one in the abysses of the ocean, the other in the wilderness to the east of the garden (Eden) where Enoch was taken up; they shall feed . . . (pre- sumably till given as food to the elect as in S Bar. xxix. 4 ; 4 Ezr. vi. 52) (Ix. 7-10, 24) ; chambers of winds, secrets of thunder, spirits of the sea, hoar- frost, snow, mist and rain (Ix. 11-23).]
Third Parable resumed. — The angels are seen with long cords ; they go to measure Paradise (Ixx. 3) and recover all the righteous dead from sea or desert (Ixi. 1-5) ; the Lord of Spirits places the Elect One on the throne of glory to judge (Ixi. 6-9) ; all the heavenly hosts. Cherubim, Seraphim, and Ophannim, angels of power and of principalities, the Elect One, the powers on earth and over water, the elect who dwell in the garden of life, and all flesh shall join in praising God (Ixi. 10-13). The kings and the mighty are called upon to recognize the Elect One, now seated on the throne ; pained and terrified, they glorify God (Ixii. 1-6) and adore the Son of Man ; but are delivered to the angels for punishment (Ixii. 9-12) ; the righteous had previously known the Son of Man, though hidden from the beginning, and shall eat and lie down and rise up for ever with Him, and be clothed with garments of glory and of life (Ixii. 7, 8, 13-16) ; unavailing rejientance and confession of the kings and the mighty (Ixiii.) ; vision of fallen angels in prison (Ixiv.). [Noachic fragment (Ixv.-lxix. 25). — Noah calls on Enoch at the ends of the earth ; he is told judgment is imminent because of sorcery and idolatry, and the violence of the Satans ; Noah is to be preserved : fiom him shall proceed a fountain of righteous and holy ( = Israel) for ever (Ixv. ) ; the angels of punishment hold the Flood in check (Ixvi.); Noah is told that the angels are making an ark for him (Ixvii. 1-3) ; God will imprison tlie angels, who had taiight men how to sin, in the burning valley, which Enoch had shown Noah ; thence proceea waters which now heal the bodies
of the kings and the mighty (Ixvii. 8), but it will one day become a fire ever-burning (Ixvii. 13). Enoch gives Noah these secrets in the book of Parables (Ixviii. 1). Michael and Raphael are astonished at the sternness of the judgment upon the fallen angels (Ixviii. 2-5) ; the names of the fallen angels and Satans who led them astray and taught men knowledge and writing (Ixix. 1-13) ; the hidden name and oath which preserve all things in due order (Ixix. 14-25).]
Close of Third Parable. — Universal joy at the revealing of the Son of Man, who receives 'tiie sum of judgment ' (Ixix. 26-29). [Two fragments belonging to Parables: (a) Ixx. — Enoch finally translated on the chariots of the spirit, and set between the north and the south (i.e. in Paradise). (b) Ixxi. — ' After this ' he is translated in spirit ; he sees the sons of God, the secrets of heaven, the crystal house, and countless angels and the four archangels, the Head of Days, the Son of Man, who brings in endless peace for the righteous.]
Section hi. : chs. lxxii.-lxxxii. — The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries. — The sun (Ixxii.), the moon and its phases (Ixxiii. ), the lunar year (Ixxiv.), the stars, the twelve winds and their portals (Ixxvi.), the four quarters of the world, the seven great mountains, rivers, islands (Ixxvii. ), the moon's waxing and waning (Ixxviii. ), recapitulation (Ixxix., Ixxx. 1), perversion of Nature and the heavenly bodies owing to man's sin (Ixxx. 2-8). Enoch sees the heavenly tablets containing men's deeds to all eternity, and is given one year to teach them to Methuselah (Ixxxi.); his charge to Methuselah to hand on the books to the genera- tions of the world ; blessing on the observers of the true system of reckoning — year of 364 days (Ixxxii. 1-9) ; stars which lead the seasons and the months (Ixxxii. 10-20).
Section iv. : chs. Ixxxiii. -xc. — Two Dream Visions: (a) Ixxxiii., Ixxxiv. ; (6) Ixxxv.-xc. — (a) Vision of earth's destruction : Mahalalel bids Enoch pray that a remnant may remain (Ixxxiii. 1-9) ; prayer of Enoch for survival of plant of eternal seed ( = Israel) (Ixxxiii. 10-lxxxiv. 6). (b) Second dream, in which Enoch sees Adam and other patriarchs under symbolism of bulls, etc. (Ixxxv.) ; stars (= angels) fall from heaven, and unite with cattle (Ixxxvi., Ixxxvii. ) ; the first star is cast into the abyss ; evil beasts slay one another (Ixxxviii.). In symbolism Enoch sees the history of Noah and the Deluge ; Israel at the Exodus, crossing the Jordan, under the Judges ; the building of the Temple ; the two kingdoms ; the Fall of Jerusa- lem (Ixxxix. 1-67). Israel is entrusted to the Seventy Shepherds ( = angelic rulers) from the Cap- tivity to the Maccabaean revolt (Ixxxix. 68-xc. 12) ; the enlightened lambs (=Chasids) and the great horn (= Judas Maccabaeus) (xc. 6-12). The final assault of the heathen ; a great sword is given to the sheep ( = Jews) ; the Lord of the sheep intervenes (xc. 13-19) ; a throne is erected in the pleasant land for Him ; the sealed books are opened ; the sinning stars are cast into the abyss of fire, also the Seventy Shei)herds ; the blinded sheep into the abyss in the midst of the earth ( = Gehenna) (xc. 20-27) ; the old house ( = Temple) is removed ; the Lord of the slieep brings a new house, greater and loftier ; the sword is sealed up ; all the sheep 'see ' [i.e. are enlightened) ; a white bull ( = Messiah) is born, and is adored by all ; the others are all transformed into white bulls, and the Lord of the sheep rejoices over them all alike ; Enoch awakes and weeps (xc. 28-42).