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1 Enoch 50:2 and the Greek Septuagint translation of Proverbs 1:17–18 both echo a common idiom in which the wicked are described as storing up consequences for themselves. 1 Enoch demonstrates an early form of this pattern being adapted to an apocalyptic context of final judgment.
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LXX Proverbs 1:17
Septuagint
15 Do not proceed along the way with them, but turn away your foot from their path, 17 for one does not spread a net for birds without reason. 18 For those who participate in slaughter store up bad things for themselves, and the destruction of lawless men is bad. 19 These are the ways of all those who carry out lawless deeds, for by ungodliness they take away their own life. 20 Wisdom sings in the exits and leads confidently into open areas,
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Enoch 50:2
Pseudepigrapha
1 And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and elect, and the light of days shall remain upon them, and glory and honor shall turn to the holy, 2 On the day of affliction when evil shall have been stored up against the sinners. And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits: And He will cause the others to witness this that they may repent and abandon the works of their hands. 3 They shall have no honor through the name of the Lord of Spirits, yet through His name they shall be saved, and the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them, for His compassion is great.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The exhortation to take the whole armor of God has similar force for it is an exhortation to appropriate both that which God himself wears (compare Isaiah 59:17; Wisdom of Solomon 5:17-20) and which he now supplies to his people114 to enable them to fulfil their role in the cosmic battle. By 'putting on' the armor they will be able to withstand in the evil day. This terminology of the 'evil day' has its background in the apocalyptic concept of the time of climactic tribulation which will immediately precede the end of the world (compare 1 Enoch 50:2; 55:3; 63:8; 96:2; 99:4; Jubilees 23:11; Assumption of Moses 1:18; Testament of Levi 5:5; also 1QM XV, 12; XVIII, 10, 12). Some writers hold that this is the reference here in 6: 13, while others believe any day of special temptation is in view and still others that the reference is to the whole of the present age. It seems best to take the phrase as an apocalyptic concept which has, in common with other such concepts in this letter, been given a present significance (compare 5:16 - 'the days are evil' and the way in which the interpretation of the armor is orientated towards a present situation) and which yet retains its apocalyptic overtones ..."
Lincoln, Andrew T.
Paradise Now and Not yet: Studies in the Role of the Heavenly Dimension in Paul’s Thought with Special Reference to His Eschatology
(p. 166) Cambridge University Press, 1981
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