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

24 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. I
' Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against
the children of fornication :
and destroy [the children of fornica-
tion and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men :
cause them to go forth] :
[and
send them one against the other that
they may destroy each other in battle : for length of days shall
thejr not have. 10. And no request that they (i. e. their
fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on
their behalf j for they hojDe to live au eternal life, and that each
one of them will live five hundred years.' 11. And the Lord
said unto Michael :
' Go, bind Semjiiza and his associates who
have united themselves with women so as to have defiled them-
selves with them in all their uncleanness. 12. And, when
their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the
destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy
generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their
earth, and their power of hurting the
earth is at an end ; cf. 14'. But tliis
is not BO with the spirits of the giants.
They enjoy an impunity in wrong-doing
till the final judgement: see 15"-16'.
9. [The children of fornication
and.] > G'5'. This is a dittograph
from the preceding clause in E. It is
against the context also. 'The children
of the Watchers' is sufiicient: this
phrase includes the three classes in the
preceding clause. [And cause them
to go forth.] A duplicate rendering
in E of iriii^ov. One against the
other (E G'). > Ge. That they may
destroy each other in battle (E).
This is not » paraphrastic rendering of
G' iv TroXijiw, since G' has iv iroXe/xai ical
ev dirajKua., The original was probably
KniD aip = ' a deadly war ' or ' a war of
extermination '. Cf. Jub. 5". 10. An
eternal life = 500 years. Touching
the prayer of the angels cf. 12" 13*"'
14'. 11. The Lord (E). > G^'.
Bind (i.e. SrjaovG'). G^E read SrjXa-
aov, a corruption native to G^ ; for the
original aco. fiiyivTas remains un-
changed, though of course SiiKwaov
would require luyttai. United
themselves . , defiled them-
selves with them. Quoted verbally
in Jub. 422. 12. Their sons. So
G^' 01 vloi avTuiv. E reads ' all these
sons', but kuellft = 'all' is an in-
ternal corruption for 'gUii = 01 here.
Slain one another. Cf. 12' 14'
Jub. 59. Valleys (i-aTras G*'). E
reads
' hills '. vairai is used as a render-
ing of nWJ in Is. 4012 Ezek. 6^. This
fact and the influence of the Greek
myth of the Titans may explain how
the Ethiopic translator attached this
meaning to t. That vanai means
valleys in this passage is beyond the
possibility of doubt. In 67* "^' this
valley (not valleys) in which the fallen
angels are cast is dealt with at length.
Jub. 5"i, which is here dependent on
our text, writes : After this they were
bound in the depths of the earth for
ever until the day of the great con-
demnation.' This verse is referred to
by St. Jude 6 : dyy(\ovs te rok ^^
rripijiTavTas rijv iainSv apxilv d\Kd diro-
\nr6vTas rh 'iSiov olii,]T^piov th xpiaiv
l^(yd\,js ijfiipas . . , inrd fcJ^ov Tft^pijKiv.