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you for all the generations of the world. 6. And now, fear not, ye just, when ye see the sinners strengthening and rejoicing in their desires, and be not associates with them, but keep far from their oppression, for ye shall be companions of the hosts of heaven. 7. Ye sinners, although ye say: “Ye cannot search it out, and all our sins are not written down; still they will continually write down your sins every day. 8. And now I show it to you, that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins. 9. Be not impious in your hearts, and do not lie, and do not change the words of rectitude, and do not call a lie the words of the Holy and Great One, and do not glorify your idols; for all your untruths and all your impiety will not be to you for a justification, but for a great sin. 10. And now, I know this mystery that the words of rectitude will be changed, and many sinners will rebel, and will speak wicked words, and will lie and make great works, and write books concerning their words. 11. But when they write all my words in rectitude in their languages, and do not change or abridge anything of my words, but write all in rectitude, all that I have first testified on their account, 12. then 7. Ye sinners, I know another mystery, that books will be given to just and to the wise for joy and for rectitude and for much wisdom. 13. And the books will be given to them, and they will believe in them and will rejoice in them; and then all the just, who have learned all the paths of rectitude out of them, will be rewarded. CuHap. 105.—“And in those days,” says the Lord, “they will call and testify over the sons of the earth concerning their wisdom: show it to them, for ye are their leaders, and the rewards over all the earth. 2. For I and my son will join with them to eternity in the paths of rectitude in their lives. And peace will be to you; rejoice, ye children of rectitude, in 1 truth Cuap. 92. With this the practical part proper begins, and goes to chap. 105. The revelations Enoch had received and had promulgated were not without a purpose, but were intended for the instruction of mankind. He therefore applies what he has taught, admonishes, warns, upbraids, and instructs his contemporaries as to the way they should go. Of this parenetic part proper chap. 92 is the special introduction, which has some similarity with the introductions to the three Parables, chap. 38, 45, and 58. Scribe, cf. 12:4. Doctrine of wisdom, 37:1, in contradistinction from visions of wisdom. It is his object here to teach practical wisdom, hence the stress lies on doctrine. —2. The days of sin shall pass away, the day of judgment will come, the HTR will give way to the HTR; therefore the faithful should remain firm, and be in joyful hope—3. Just one, collectively used, like 91:10, and cf. notes.—4. He, ie. God. Power, cf. 90:19, 30; 96:1; 98:12. Light, cf. note on 38:2.—5. Cf. 10:16, 20; 41:2; 69:29; 91:11, etc. Cuap. 93. But before proceeding to his admonitions the author gives a brief survey of the development of the world’s history in ten world-weeks, each consisting of seven parts. We have then again the mysterious number seventy. Of these ten weeks seven belong to history, and three to the future. Out of the books; Enoch, the scribe, writes down his revelations, and reads them to his children; probably the books written during his tour by himself or the angel; cf. 33:3, 4; 74:2; 81:1 sqq. (Parables 40:8) —2. The sources of his knowledge, as written in these books, were visions, angels, and tablets of heaven, 81:1; cf. 103:2 (106:19; 107:1; 108:7). Plant, cf. 10:16.—3. The first week goes from the creation to Enoch’s time. Seventh, not like Jude 14, but with Dillmann and Ewald, in the seventh part of the first week, counting seven generations for this week. Retarded, ie. the period closed before the deluge-—4. The second week goes to the deluge and the covenant with Noah, Gen. viii. 21-ix. 17.—5. The third week ends with the call to Abraham. Plant of the judgment of justice, ie. the people among whom God will hold his judgment.—6. The fourth week ends with the giving of the law on Mount Sinai. Visions, etc., i.e. revelations will be made to the holy and just, referring GTR to the