the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

8 The Book of Enoch [Sect. I
To execute judgement upon all.
And to destroy '"alP the ungodly :
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works ""of their ungodliness"" which they have
ungodly committed,
"And of all the hard things which'' ungodly sinners ""have
spoken"" against Him.
II. 1. Observe ye every thing that takes place in the heaven,
And behold. So E. G^ reads on
corrupt for (Sou. So Jude Ihov TjkQiv
'Kvptos tv ayiais ixvpiaatv avTov : Ps.
Cypr. Ad Novatianum (Hartel's Cy-
prian iii. 67) ' Ecoe yenit cum multis
milibus nuntiorum suorum' : Ps. Vigi-
liu3 (Migne Ixii, col. 363) 'Ecce
veniet Dominus in millibus '. Cometh
with ten thousands of '"His"' holy
ones. From Deut. 33^ naanD ^HKI
B'l'p. Since the LXX here renders
ai/v /jvpmcrtv KoStjs our author has
followed the M.T. The THis^ is found
G', Jude, and Ps. Cyprian. As Zalin
pointed out, the above passage from Ps.
Cyprian is derived directly from our
text, and not from it indirectly through
Jude. This entire verse has been
quoted by Jude 14, 15 in a compressed
form, who in the same passage draws
upon 5* 27'' 60'. Ten thousands
of THisT holy ones. Cf. Deut. 33'
Dan. 7^". The angels are so called in
12* 142" 396 472 572 eo^ 61«. ". 12
651- ggia gis 1032 loe", as already
in Job 51 1515 Zech. 14' Dan. 4"
8'^. They are called ' holy angels ' in
201-7 216, 9 22' 24« 272 326 718
93^. ' Holy ones of heaven ' : 9'. For
other designations see 6^ (note). All
the ungodly. The ' all ' is corrupt in
E, but recoverable by an easy emendation.
"Which they have ungodly
committed (C). Here E is corrupt,
reading warasaji'i for zarase'il.
the hard things whiohT .
^ All
. . rhave
spoken"! (G^). The text of G^ here
presents a dittograph. aKXrjpwv !iv
kKaXyjirav \6yciiv Kal -nfpl -navTwv wv
KariXaX-qtrav,
II. The author in 2-5' emphasizes
the order and regularity that prevail in
the world of nature in contrast to the
disorder that prevails in the world of
man. This was a favourite theme with
Jewish writers. The noble words of
Hooker {Ecclesiastical Polity, i. 16. 8)
express the view of these old writers
' Of Law there can be no less acknow-
ledged than that . . . her voice is the
harmony of the world : all things in
heaven and earth do her homage, the
very least as feeling her care, the
greatest as not exempted from her
power.' In Sir. 43 we have the glorifi-
cation of the sun, moon, stars, the rain-
bow, cloud.s, snow, lightning, thunder,
dew, and other natural phenomena.
The moon is especially glorified since
the Jewish feasts were celebrated in
accordance with the moon's phases.
This last is, of course, a view in which
the author of 72-82 would not have
agreed, since he held that the only true
divider of time was the sun. In Sir.
lg26-28 there is a nearer approximation
to our text, though there is no sure
ground for recognizing it as a source of
it. Sirach runs :
—
27. kKoffiir^aiv (Is alwva tA if>yo. avTOV,
teat Tas apx^s avrStv (Is yeveois
avTwv , . .
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