198 BERNARDO ESTRADA look for the decline of your enemies? Prepare your souls for that which is kept for you and make ready your souls for the reward which is preserved for you” 61. This is the key passage in Nauck’s theory about the “joy in suffering ” pattern in Judaism 62. Even though it contains three elements (C, B, D), the translation is not at all correct. The verb çebaw in Syriac text would be rather translated as “be pleased with ”, “be satisfied with” instead of rejoicing. If the author had wanted to mean that, says Dupont, he would have employed the specific Syriac verb hedî, “to rejoice” 63. ˙ 2 Baruch 54, 16-18 “ The one who believes will receive reward. But now, turn yourselves to destruction, for unrighteous ones who are living now, for you will be visited suddenly since you have once rejected the intelligence of the Most High” 64. The last text quoted by Nauck beckons to future reward but scarcely mentions suffering, which perhaps can be deduced from faith, able to bear every kind of toil 65. The elements are B, D. Another passages from IL to be considered is 1 Enoch 108, 10: “ He has caused them to be recompensed, for they were all found loving God more than the fire of their eternal souls, and while they were being trodden upon by evil people, experienced abuse and insult by them, they continued blessing us” 66. The blessed will be rewarded because they preferred to love God instead of worldliness, in spite of the abuse which evil people caused them. And instead of vindicating themselves they kept on blessing the offenders. Three elements of the pattern are present (A, D, B) but it is precisely the invitation to rejoice in the midst of tribulations that is missing. Cf. KLIJN, 2 Baruch, 639. 61 Cf. NAUCK, Freude, 75. 62 Cf. DUPONT, Béatitudes II, 344. And even NAUCK, Freude, 75, n. 42, 63 admits that he had not expected in this passage the verb çebaw. KLIJN, 2 Baruch, 640. 64 The four elements of the pattern would not be only in this text, but in the 65 two former texts of Baruch taken together, according to the arrangement made by Charles: A in Bar 48,49; B in 48,50; C in 52,6; D in 52,7: Cf. NAUCK, Freude, 76. Text : E. ISAAC, “1 (Ethiopic) Enoch”, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 66 I, 88-89.