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impious will depart from the world, and the world will be written out for destruction, and all men will look for the path of rectitude. 15. And after this, in the tenth week, in the seventh part, there will be the judgment to eternity, which is held over the watchers and the great heavens of eternity which will spring forth from the midst of the angels. 16. And the first heaven will pass away and cease, and a new heaven will appear, and all the powers of heaven will shine to eternity seven fold. 17. And after that there will be many weeks, without number, to eternity, in goodness and in justice, and sin will not be mentioned from that time on to eternity.— 18. And now I tell you, my children, and show you the paths of justice and the paths of oppression, and I will show them to you again that ye may know what will come. 19. And now hear, my children, and walk in the paths of justice, and do not walk in the paths of oppression, for they will be destroyed in eternity who walk in the paths of injustice. Cuap. 91. Having given his children an account of the events to come, Enoch proceeds to instruct them as to their conduct in preparation for that event. The parenetic words that now follow are thus intimately connected with the two visions. He tells Methuselah to call together his family to instruct them, 81:6. Word, the GTR spiritually discerned; cf. 14:24.—3. He, i.e. Enoch. Properly, literally, in rectitude, in a right manner. Love, cf. 94:1.—4. Double heart, cf. Ps. xii. 2. Associate, 94:2, 3; 104:6. Companion, cf. Prov. vii. 4. —5. This conduct is necessary, because injustice will at last be cut off, vs. 8 and 11, and completed, i.e. will have to end. The reference is here to the first judgment, the deluge —6. The period after the deluge. Come forth, 1:3.—8. Final judgment. Roots, vs. 11. Deception, chosen with reference to the double heart, vs. 4; cf. Past. Her. Vis. ii. 2, 4; Barn. xix. 5.—9. Pictures, i.e. idols. Towers, i.e. temples. The author has not forgotten the symbolism of his two visions. Idolatry is abhorred in 80:7; 99:7-9, 14. They, i.e. who? the unconverted heathen, as Dillmann supposes, or those that fell off and reviled, vs. 7, and consequently worshiped in these temples?—10. Just one, collectively used. Will rise, cf. notes on 51:1, 2. Wisdom will arise, easily understood from chap. 42; cf. 5:8; 48:1.—11. Sword, cf. 90:19; 91:12.—12-17. will be treated after 93:14, where they undoubtedly belong. —18. Good continuation of vs. 11. Again, i.e. in the following.—19. Cf. vs. 5 and 7-11. CHAP. 92.—Written by Enoch, the scribe, all this doctrine of wisdom, praiseworthy to all men, and a judge of all the earth, to all my children who will dwell on the earth, and to the future generations who will practice rectitude and peace. 2. Let not your spirits be sorrowful on account of the times, for the Great Holy One has given days for everything. 3. And the just one will arise from sleep, will arise and walk in the paths of justice, and all his paths and ways will be in everlasting goodness and grace. 4. He will be gracious to the just one, and will give him everlasting rectitude and will give power, and will be in goodness and justice, and he will walk in the everlasting light. 5. But sin will be destroyed in darkness to eternity, and will not be seen from that day on to eternity. Cuap. 93.—And after that Enoch commenced to relate out of the books. 2. And Enoch said: “Concerning the children of justice and concerning the chosen of the world and concerning the plant of justice and of rectitude, of these I will speak to you and announce to you, my children, I, Enoch, as it has appeared to me in a vision from heaven, and what I learned through the voice of the holy angels and understood from the tablets of heaven.” 3. And Enoch commenced to relate from the books, and said: “I was born the seventh in the will shine to eternity seven fold. SECTION XIX.