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

u TJie Booh of Enoch [Sect. I
comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the
found in Enoch. Another fragment of
this Apocalypse is preserved by Syn-
cellus in the Greek ; but to this there
is no corresponding text in the Ethiopio.
But these myths were already combined
in their present form, when 88-89'
were written. But not only does 10'"'
belong to the Book of Noah but 6-11
as a whole. These never refer to Enoch
but to Noah 10'. Moreover, when the
author of Jubilees is clearly drawing on
the Book of Noah, his subject matter
^21-26 agrees closely with that of thete
chapters in Enoch (see Charles's edition
of Jubilees, pp. Ixxi sq., 61, 264).
12-16 on the other hand belong to the
Book of Enoch. And comely (E G^).
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VI. 2. Children of the heaven.
Cf. 13" 14' 39'. See 15'-'. Of. 'Sons of
the holy angels ', 71'. The entire myth
of the angels and the daughters of men
in Enoch springs originally from Gen.
6'"*, where it is said that 'the sons of
God came in to the daughters of men '.
These words are not to be taken as ex-
pressing alliances between the Sethites
and the Cainites, but as belonging to a
very early myth, possibly of Persian
origin, to the effect that demons had
corrupted the earth before the coming
of Zoroaster and had allied themselves
with women. See Delitzsch, Neuer
Commentar uher d. Genesis, 1887, pp.
146-8. Bousset, Bel. d. Jud.' 382, 560
Gunkel, Genesis 56. The LXX originally
rendered the words ' sons of God
by a-yyfXoi toS etoC, and this rendering
is found in Philo, de Giganiibus, Euse-
bius, Augustine, and Ambrose. This
view of Gen. 6'"* was held by most of
the early fathers. That this was the
original meaning of Gen. 6'"* Is. 24^'
is now generally admitted. For a
history of the interpretation of this
passage in Jewish and Christian writers
see my edition of Jubilees 4"^ note. On
';
the myths regarding the intercourse of
angels with the daughters of men, see
Griinbaum in ZDMG. xxxi. 225 ff.
(Referred to by Delitzsch.) For state-
ments of later writers either depending
directly on this account in Enoch
or harmonizing with it, cf. T. Reuben
5«; Napth. 35; Jub. 4" 5'"'''- ; Joseph.
^7it. i. 3. 1; Philo, de Giganiibus;
2 Enoch 7, 18 ; Jude 6 ; 2 Pet. 2*
Justin Martyr, Apol. i. 5 ; Ps. Clemens,
Som. viii. 13 ; Clem. Alex. Strom, v.
1. 10 ; Tert. De Virrj. Veland. vii ; Adv.
Marc. V. 18 ; De Idol, ix ; Lact. Instit.
ii. 15 ; Commodian. Instruct, i. 3. In
the De Civ. Dei xv. 23, Augustine
combats this view, and denies the in-
spiration of Enoch, which is upheld by
Tertullian. I append here a fragment
of the Book of Noah, relating not to the
fallen angels but to mankind. It may
have belonged to it. Fragment of the
Book of Noah which Syncellus states
was derived Ik toC npcurov Pt$\iov
'Evdix. 'And again :
" from the mountain
on which they swore and bound them-
selves by common imprecations, [that]
cold shall not depart from it for ever, nor
snow nor hoar-frost, and dew shall not
descend on it except it descend on it for
a curse, until the great day of judge-
ment. In that season (time) it shall be
consumed and brought low and shall be
burnt up and melt as wax before fire ; so
shall it be burnt up by reason of all the
works thereof. And now I say to you,
sons of men, great wrath is upon you,
upon your sons, and this wrath shall
not cease from you until the time of
the slaughter of your sons. And your
beloved ones shall perish and your
honoured ones shall die from oflf all the
earth ;
for all the days of their life from
henceforth shall not be more than an
hundred and twenty years. And think
not that they may yet live for more
years. For there is not for them
;