1.8
The Book of Enoch 1.8 · Peace for the chosen📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The verse turns from judgement to the chosen.
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ወ[ላዕለ፡1
wa-[lāʿla
And [upon
ኵሎሙ፡]2
kʷǝllomu]
all]all of them
ጻድቃን፡3
ṣādǝqān
the righteousrighteous ones
ለጻድቃን፡4
la-ṣādǝqān
for the righteous
ይገብር፡5
yǝgabbǝr
he will makehe makes
ሰላመ፡6
salāma
peace
, ወየዓቅቦሙ፡7
wa-yǝʿāqǝbomu
and will guardand he guards them
ለኅሩያን፡8
la-ḫǝruyān
the chosen,
, ወይከውን፡9
wa-yǝkawwǝn
and there will beand it will be
ሣህል፡10
śāhl
mercy
ላዕሌሆሙ፡11
lāʿlehomu
upon them;
; ወይከውኑ፡12
wa-yǝkawwǝnu
and they will be
ኵሎሙ፡13
kʷǝllomu
allall of them
ዘአምላክ፡14
za-ʾǝmlāk
God’s,of God
, ወይሴርሑ፡15
wa-yǝsērǝḥu
and will prosper,and they prosper
, ወይትባረኩ፡16
wa-yǝtbārǝku
and be blessed,and they are blessed
, ብርሃነ፡17
bǝrhāna
the light of
አምላክ፡18
ʾǝmlāk
God
ወይበርህ፡19
wa-yǝbarrǝh
and will shineand it shines
ሎሙ፡20
lomu
for them.to them
. And [upon all the righteous] for the righteous he will make peace, and will guard the chosen, and there will be mercy upon them; and they will all be God’s, and will prosper, and be blessed, and the light of God will shine for them.
And [upon all the righteous] for the righteous he will make peace, and will guard the chosen, and there will be mercy upon them; and they will all be God’s, and will prosper, and be blessed, and the light of God will shine for them.
1.9
The Book of Enoch 1.9 · He comes with ten thousands📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The last verse of the opening. The New Testament letter of Jude quotes it (Jude 14–15).
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And behold, he has come with ten thousands of holy ones, to execute judgement upon them, and destroy them, the godless; and he will convict all flesh concerning all that they did, and acted impiously against him, the sinners [and] the godless.
The verse turns from judgement to rescue. Salām is peace in the wide biblical sense that Dillmann lays out: concord and security, then well-being of every kind; he cites this verse. The chosen are kept: ʿaqaba is “to guard”, and Dillmann’s second sense, “to keep unharmed”, lists Enoch 1:8. Mercy is śāhl. Dillmann cites this verse under it too, but quotes the phrase with a negative, ኢይከውን, “there will not be”; the text on our page has ወይከውን, “and there will be”, and the two differ only in the opening letter.
The last lines are all blessing. They “will be God’s” (Dillmann quotes yǝkawwǝnu za-ʾǝmlāk under kona), they will prosper (taśarḥa) and be blessed (tabāraka, “to be made fortunate”), and “the light of God will shine for them”. Dillmann quotes those last words whole, yǝbarrǝh lomu bǝrhāna ʾǝmlāk, under barha, “to shine”. Charles brackets the first phrase, “upon all the righteous”, as words he doubted.