Section v. : chs. xci.-civ. — (a) Enoch's Book for his Children (xcii. 1). — God has appointed days for all things ; the righteous are to arise from sleep and walk in eternal light, and sin is to disappear (xcii.). Methuselah and his family are summoned
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and exhorted to love righteousness ; violence must increase, but judgment will follow ; idols ■will fail, and the heathen be judged in tire for ever ; the righteous are to rise again (xci. 1-11).
(6) Apocalypse of Weeks. — 1st week : Enoch bom. 2nd : the first end ; Noah saved. .3rd : Abraham elected as the plant of righteous judgment. 4th : the law for all generations made. 5th : house of glory . . . built. 6th : all Israel blinded ; Elijah ascends to heaven ; the Dispersion. 7th : general apostasy; the elect righteous elected to receive seven-fold instruction concerning all creation ( = Enoch's revelations). 8th : week of righteousness and of sword ; Temple rebuilt for ever ; all mankind converted. 9th : righteous judgment revealed to the whole world ; sin abolished. 10th : great eternal judgment on angels ; new heaven ; thereafter weeks without number for ever (xciii., xci. 12-17).
(c) Warnings and woes. — Warnings against paths of unrighteousness (xciv. 1-5) ; woes against oppressors and rich (xciv. 6-11) and sinners (xcv. 2-7) ; hope for righteous (xcvi. 1-3) ; their prayer heard (xcvii. 5) ; woes against the luxurious and the rich (xcvi. 4-8, xcvii. 1-10). "Warnings against indulgence ; sin is of man's own deviling, and every sin is every day recorded in heaven (xcviii. 1-8) ; sinners are prepared for the day of destruc- tion ; they will be given into hands of righteous (xcviii. 9-16). Woes on godless and law-breakers (xcix. ) ; the righteous are to raise prayers and place them before the angels, who are to place the sin of sinners for a memorial before the Most High (xcix. 3). Sinners are to destroy one another (c. 1-3) ; angels descend into secret places and gather all who brought down sin (i.e. fallen angels) ; the righteous and holy receive guardians till an end is made of sin ; though the righteous sleep long, they have nothing to fear ; angels, sun, moon, and stars will N^itness to the sins of sinners (c. 4-13) ; God is obeyed by all Nature, therefore His laAv should be observed by men (ci. ). Terrors of the judgment- day ; the righteous who died in misery are not to grieve but await judgment (cii. 1-5). Taunts of sinners — after death we and the righteous are equal (cii. 6-11). Enoch knows a mystery from the heavenly tablets — the spirits of the righteous dead shall live and rejoice (ciii. 1-4) ; woes of sinners who died in honour — their spirits descend into darkness, chains, and burning flame (ciu. 5-8) ; •woes of the righteous (ciii. 9-15) ; yet in heaven the angels remember them for good, and their names are written ; they shall shine as lights of heaven (civ. 1, 2) ; 'cry for judgment, and it shall appear' (civ. 3). The writings of Enoch are to be given to the righteous — they give joy, uprightness, and wisdom (civ. 9-13).
[Messianic fragment (cv.).— God and the Messiah to dwell with men.] [Noachic fragment (cvi.- cvii. ). — Lamech lias a wondrous son ; Methuselah inquires of Enoch at the ends of the earth about him ; Enoch replies that a Deluge is to come because of sin introduced by the fallen angels ; this son shall alone be saved — sin will arise again after him till the final annihilation of evil.] An independent addition (cviii. ). — Another book written by Enoch ' for his son and those who keep the law in the last days ' ; the righteous are to wait for the destruction of the ungodly, whose spirits suffer in tire (cviii. 1-6) ; the spirits of the humble who lived ascetic lives and belonged to the genera- tion of light shall God bring forth in shining light and seat each on the throne of his honour in never- ending splendour (cviii. 7-15).
2. "Title. — The work is referred to under several titles. Of these the oldest are (a) the Books of Enoch {Test. Jud. xviii. 1, Test. Lev. x. 5 [A]; Origen, c. Celsum, v. 54, in Num. Horn,, xxviii. 2 — this title is implied in the division of the work into
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books; 1 En. xiv. 1, Ixxii. 1, Ixxxii. 1, xcii. 1, cviii. 1 ; Syncellus, Chronographia [ed. Dind., 1829, i. 20, etc.]) ; (b) the Words of Enoch (Jub. xxi. 10 ; Test. Benj. ix. 1 ; cf. i En. L 1, xiv. 1). Other titles are (c) the Book of Enoch [Test. Lev. x. 5 [a] ; Origen, de Princ. I. iii. 3, etc. ) ; (d) the Writing of Enoch [Test. Lev. xiv. 1 ; Tertullian, de Cultu Fern. L 3); (e) £'nocA ( Jude " ; Ep. Barn. iv. 3; Clem. Alex., Eclog. Proph. [ed. Dind., 1869, iii. 456, 474] ; Origen, in loannem, yx. 25, c. Celsum, v. 54 ; Ter- tullian, de Cultu Fern. ii. 10, de Idol, iv., xv.).