How Enoch saw those who keep the Keys, and the Guardians of the Gates of Hades standing by
1 I saw those who keep the keys, and are the guardians of the gates of hell, standing, like great serpents, The destruction of the unholy, B. I said in my and their faces were like quenched lamps, and their eyes And they were
2 And 1 said before their faces +, ‘Would that I had not seen you, nor heard of your doings, Now they have only sinned a little in this life, and always suffer
3 I went out to the East, to the paradise of Eden, where rest has been prepared for the just, were fiery, and their teeth were sharp”. stripped to the waist, and that those of my race had never come to you ! in the eternal life.’ and it is open to the third heaven,and shut from this world.
4 And guards are placed at the very great gates of the east of the sun, i.e. fiery angels, singing triumphant songs, that never cease rejoicing in the presence of the just.
5 At the last coming they will lead forth Adam with our forefathers, and conduct them there, that they may rejoice, as a man calls those whom he loves to feast with him; and they having come with joy hold converse, before the dwelling of that man’, with joy awaiting his feast, the enjoyment and the immeasurable wealth, and joy and merriment in the heht, and eternal life’.
6 Then 1 Like a darkened flame,
8 described in viii—ix. we find Paradise already peopled with the righteous; but it is not incompatible with Ixxxix.; xciii., where apparently Enoch and Elijah are its only inhabitants. According to xxii the patriarchs were to remain in hades till the final judgement. This would, in some degree, harmonize with our text. 6-14. Nine I said}, ‘I tell you, my children: blessed is he who fears the name of the Lord, and serves continually before His face, and brings his gifts with fear continually in this hfe’,. Blessed is he who executes a just judgement, not for the sake of recom- and lives all his life justly, and dies, pense, but for the sake of righteousness, expecting nothing in return: a sincere judgement shall afterwards come to him,. Blessed is he who clothes the naked with a garment, and gives his bread to the hungry.
9 Blessed is he who gives a just judgement for the orphan and the
10 Blessed is he who turns from the unstable path of this widow, and assists every one who is wronged. vain world, and walks by the righteous path which leads to eternal life.
11 Blessed is he who sows just seed, and gives bread to the hungry, B. Path of deceit, B. beatitudes. less. nothing in return.. Sincere. Corrupt. Ci Jobrive he shall reap sevenfold.
12 Blessed is he in whom is the truth, that he may speak the truth to his neighbour!.
13 Blessed is he who has love upon his lips, and tenderness in his heart”.
14 Blessed is he who understands every work of the Lord, and glorifies the Lord God; for the works of the Lord are just, and of the works of man some are good, and others evil, and by their works those who have wrought them are known +. [Enoch shows his Children how he measured and wrote out the Judgements of God.