1 Enoch 105
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CV. God and the Messiah to dwell with Man.
1In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth.CV. This chapter does not seem to belong to xci-civ. (1) Children of earth is used in a good sense. Contrast c. 6. (2) The Messiah is introduced, here alone in xci-civ. (3) The emphasis is on the finite life of the saints on earth (an idea of i-xxxvi), not on the immortal life in heaven, as in xci-civ. 2For I and My Son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.thus finite.Contrast the curse of the wicked, xciv. 6 (note).i.e. the Messiah. Cf 4 Ezra vii. 28, 29, xiii. 32, 37, 52, xiv. 9. The righteous are God's children, and pre-eminently so the Messiah. Cf the early Messianic interpretation of Ps. ii, also 1 En. lxii. 14; John xiv. 23.
1En-Charles: 1 Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles (APOT 1913) (1913) · Public Domain · The Book of Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913); public domain. Digital text: CrossWire SWORD module 'Enoch' v2.0.