CHAPTER 70
And it came to pass after this that his name was elevated during his lifetime to that Son of man, to the Lord of the spirits, away from those who dwell on the earth.
2. And it was elevated on the wagons of the spirit, and the name departed in their midst.
3. And from that day I was not drawn in their midst, and he set me between two winds, between the north and the west, there where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the chosen and for the just.
4. And there I saw the first fathers and the just, who dwell in this place from the beginning.
CHAPTER 71
And it came to pass after this that my spirit was hidden, and it ascended into the heavens; there I saw the sons of the angels stepping on a flame of fire; their clothes were white and also their garments; and the light of their faces was like crystal.
2. And I saw two rivers of fire, and the light of that fire flamed like hyacinth, and I fell on my face before the Lord of the spirits.
3. And Michael, an angel from among the chiefs of the angels, took me by the right hand and lifted me up, and led me out to all the secrets of mercy and to the secrets of justice.
4. And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of heaven, and all the repositories of the stars and of the luminaries, and whence they proceed into the presence of the holy ones.
5. And the spirit moved Enoch into the heaven of heavens. And I saw there in the midst of the light how there was something which was built of crystal stone, and between these stones tongues of living fire.
6. And my spirit saw how a fire surrounded this house, on the four sides rivers full of living fire, and how they surrounded this house.
7. And around about were Seraphim and Cherubim and Ophanim; these are they who do not sleep, but guard the throne of his glory.
8. And I saw angels who could not be numbered, a thousand times thousand, and ten thousand times ten thousand, surrounded that house, and Michael and Rufael, Gabriel and Fanuel, and the holy angels who are in the high heavens enter and leave that house.
9. And Michael and Gabriel, Rufael and Fanuel, and many holy angels without number came out of that house;
10. And with them the Head of days, his head white and clean as wool, and his garments beyond description.
11. And I fell on my face, and all my flesh melted, and my spirit was changed; and I cried with a loud voice, with the spirit of power, and I blessed and honored and exalted.
12. And these blessings, which proceeded from my mouth, were pleasing before that Head of days.
13. And that Head of days came with Michael and Gabriel, Rufael and Fanuel, and with thousands and with ten thousand times thousand angels without number.
14. And that angel came to me and greeted me with his voice and said to me: “Thou art a son of man who was born to justice, and justice dwells over thee, and the justice of the Head of days will not depart from thee.”
15. And he said to me: “He calls ‘Peace’ unto thee in the name of the world which is to come, for thence peace proceeds since the creation of the world, and thus it will be to thee to eternity and from eternity to eternity.
16. And all who will continue to walk in thy path (thou, whom justice does not leave in eternity), their dwelling-places will be with thee, and they will not be separated from thee in eternity and from eternity to eternity.
17. And so long life will be with that Son of man, and peace will be to the just, and his right path to the just, in the name of the Lord of the spirits to all eternity.
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CHAP 70. This chapter, containing an account of the translation of Enoch into Paradise, is an interruption of the sense. This, together with internal evidences, mark it as an interpolation; but by whom made cannot, on account of its brevity, be decided. Name, vs. 1, often for person. Enoch’s elevation took place, like Elijah’s, on wagons; cf. 2 Kings ii. 11. The pre-existence of the Son of man is, at least unconsciously, here presupposed. Their midst, i.e. of men. He set me; indefinite expression for I was set.
North and west is surprising, as according to the ancients the earthly paradise was in the northeast; cf. En. 77:3 and chap. 33.—4. The statement that the first patriarchs were in the garden of justice is more in harmony with the method of thinking pursued by the Noachic fragmentist than by the author of the Parables; cf. note on 60:7, 8, and Sibyl. Prooem. ii. 48; but cf. 61:12 and 89:52. From eternity modifies fathers, not dwell.
CHAP. 71. Enoch’s spiritual translation into the congregation of the Messianic saints is a worthy conclusion of the Parables as a whole; cf. 39:8 (37:4); 90:31. 1. After that, i.e. probably after the vision recorded in chap. 62-64. Sons of angels, imitation of sons of men, as a designation for angels; cf. also 69:4, 5; 106:5.—2. Rivers of fire, cf. Dan. vii. 10 and En. 72:6, 14, 19.—3. Unlike in the Noachic fragments, 60:4, Michael himself raises the seer; cf. Dan. x. 13; xii. 1. Secrets of mercy and justice, referring to the Messianic judgment.—5. Secrets of the ends of heaven, i.e. the secrets of the physical world; cf. chap. 14.—7. Cf. 39:13; 61:10, 12.—8. But cf. 14:21, 22, thus showing another difference between the two main parts of the book; cf. 1:9.—9. Cf. Dan. vii. 9; En. 46:1.—11. Spirit of power, cf. 61:11.—14. That angel, i.e. undoubtedly Michael, vs. 3.—15. The world which is to come, the Messianic kingdom, the HTR.—17. With the Old Testament blessing of long life, i.e. eternal life, the Parables characteristically close.
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