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

10 The Booh of Enoch [sect, i
III. Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees ""seem as
though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except four-
teen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old
foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
IV. And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun
is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and
shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns
with glowing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on
a rock by reason of its heat.
V. 1. Observe ye"^ how the trees cover themselves with green
leaves and bear fruit : wherefore give ye heed '
and know^ with
regard to all '^His works^, and recognize how He that liveth for
ever hath made them so.
2. And ''air His works go on ^thus'' from year to year ''for
ever^, and all the tasks i^which^ they accomplish for Him, and
'"their tasks'' change not, but according as ""God"" hath ordained
so is it done.
3. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner
accomplish ''and change not^ their tasks '^from His command-
ments^.
III. In the Geoponica 11' fouiteen cover the trees and all their fruit is for
evergreen trees are mentioned. AeVSpa honour and glory '- He that liveth.
au&aXri eari, fiydfTioTe 4>v\\oppoovvTa 6V (cf. Sir. 18^) . . . them so. Here I have
Tip xfi/^wfi tb'' (potvi^, fcirpiovj (TTp60L\os, emended gabarkemmu la'gltlntfl kuSUd-
SafVT], (kaia, KV7rapiiT(Tos, Ktparia, tiitvs, mft into gabrbniA Ia'616ntA kamahCl in
irptvos, irv^os, pivpaivrj, KeSpos, Wia, kol accordance with G^. G*^ = 'the living
apKfvBos, The twelve trees enumerated Godhath made them ao and He liveth for
in Jub. 21"^ as fitting for use on the ever '. Here there is a manifest dittoaltar
have nothing to do with this list; graph. 2. ^KW His works. Eadds
for they are not all evergreen. Nor qedmehd = ' before Him '- This seems
have those referred to in T. Lev. O^^ corrupt for kamahft = 'thus' (ouVois
(see my edition of the text of the in G^) or for kuSUdmft = 'all'.
Test. XII Pair., pp. 248 sq. for a full The tasks which they accomplish
discussion of the twelve trees which are for Him. So G* vavra oaa a-noTtXovaiv
mentionedin Jub. 21^2, and the Aramaic aurS rd epya. Here rd epya does not
and Greek fragments of a still older mean ' the works ' as in the beginning
work). a. In G» 3^ ^-5^ " has been of the verse, but the • ofiBoes * or
lost through homoeoteleuton. ' tasks ' discharged by them as the next
v. 1. The trees . . . bear fruit. sentence—«ai ovk aWoiowrai avTwv to
G^ reads
' the green leaves on them Ipya—proves, and likewise the clause