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

Sect. I] Chapter Ill—V. 6 11
4. But ye— ye have not been steadfast, nor done the command-
ments of the Lord,
But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard
words
With your impure mouths against His greatness.
Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
5. Therefore shall ye execrate your days.
And the years of your life shall perish.
And ''the years of your destruction^ shall be multiplied in
eternal execration.
And je shall find no mercy.
6 a. In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration
unto all the rie^hteous.
Kal ovK aWoiovffLV avrijov ih epya in
ver. 3. But E omits offa before airoTe-
Xovffiv and avruiv rd, ipya, and renders
' all His works serve Him and change
not '. God. > Gs. 4. Of the
Lord. G* reads 'His*. Spoken.
The charge of blasphemy is frequent
in 91-104. Of. 91'. " 94=* 96' 100".
Proud and hard words. Cf. 27^
101'. From these passages the close
of St. Jude 15 is drawn. Cf. Ps. 12*
]Jan. 7«. ". 2o' Kev. IS''. Hi.s
greatness. G* adds a gloss 'for ye
have spoken {KaTe\a\Ti(JaTt) with
your lies '. Hard-hearted. Cf. 98'^
100* ' obstinate of heart ', Ye shall
find no peace. This phrase occurs in
Sects. 1-36 and 91-104 only : 1« 5^
12= 131 16* 94« 98". i" 99" 101=
1023 1038. It is derived from Is.
4322 57*1. 5. Therefore. All
MSS. of E but q prefix 'and'.
Shall perish (G^ airoKaTai). E
tahaguglCl ( = ' ye shall destroy ')
corrupt for jahaguelft = airoKeiTai.
Mercy. +KaJ ilprivr) G^. 6-7
I have been obliged to rearrange
the text of these verses, which is cer-
tainly in disorder. Thus in v. 6 there
are ten lines, one of which—the eighth
(6 h)— teal avTol K^Tjpovofirjffovffiv tt^v
jrjv is a doublet of 7 J. Strangely
enough this line is repeated in an impossible
place in v. 8. Now when we
excise this line we have in vv. 6-7 the
following arrangement : a tristioh, a
tetrastich, a distich, and a tristich.
This of course cannot be right. Re-
moving the tetrastich from considera-
tion, 6 d efrj, which is right, we have
a tristich, a distich, and a tristich. Now
the first tristich deals with the curse
that will befall sinners in many forms.
A fourth line is wanting that deals
with the same subject. There are
actually two suitable, either the last
line of V. 6 dWd \ti\ Trd^Tas v/^a; icaTa-
\vaei Karapa or the last line of v. 7
viuv Sc Tois aai^taiv iarat icardpa. But
6j follows closely on 6 V ; hence we have
found the missing line of the first stanza
in 7 c. Thus we have two complete
tetrastichs in v. 6, i. c. 6 a i c, 7 c, and
6 (lefg. It is now obvious that the
remaining distich in v. 6 belongs to the
distich in v. 7, and thus the stanza in
V. 7 is completed. 6. Ye shall
make your names (where E = StOerere