Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book V — Epistle of Enoch (with Appendix)·Chapter XCIV — First Woes Against Sinners
Woe to those who build their houses with sin
First series of woes opens: woe to those who build unrighteous houses; woe to those who forsake the everlasting heritage of their fathers; woe to those who write lying words. Their cup shall not lack until the day of judgment.
Source context
- Theme
- Exhortation to the righteous to walk in paths of integrity and resist the ways of violence and iniquity
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew prophetic traditionThe direct address to the righteous urging moral fortitude against oppressors mirrors the paraenetic structure found throughout the classical Hebrew prophets (Amos, Isaiah), where the covenant community is called to embodied ethical fidelity.
- Stoic ethicsThe injunction to hold fast to virtue regardless of external fortune shows cross-tradition congruence with Stoic προαίρεσις — the cultivated inner disposition that remains sovereign over circumstance.
Chapter XCIV
XCIV. 1-5. Admonitions to the Righteous.
CHAPTER XCIV.
1And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein;
For the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation, But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish.
2And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of death be revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from them, And shall not follow them. p. 135
3And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death, And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
4But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life,
And walk in the paths of peace, And ye shall live and prosper.
5And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,
And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to **evilly-entreat** wisdom, So that no place may be found for her, And no manner of temptation may minish. XCIV. 6-11. *Woes for the Sinners*.
6Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression
And lay deceit as a foundation; For they shall be suddenly overthrown, And they shall have no peace.
7Woe to those who build their houses with sin;
For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown, And by the sword shall they fall. [And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.]
8Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,
And from your riches shall ye depart, Because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your riches.
9Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,
And have become ready for the day of slaughter, p. 136 And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.
10Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He who hath created you will overthrow you, And for your fall there shall be no compassion, And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A reproach to the sinners and the godless.
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