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30 Tlie Booh <strong>of</strong> Enoch [Sect. I<br />

I wrote out <strong>the</strong>ir petition; and <strong>the</strong> prayer fin reg-ard to <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

spirits and <strong>the</strong>ir deeds individually and in regard to <strong>the</strong>ir requests<br />

(jTfpi wv riiMpTijKitaav koX KareicpiBriaav)<br />

6. Spirits. + And <strong>the</strong>ir deeds individually<br />

(E). [And.] Though in G^E,<br />

it should be bracketed. The passage<br />

tin regard to <strong>the</strong>ir spirits . . . length<br />

is clearly corrupt. First <strong>of</strong> all ' length<br />

is coiTupt. puiKp6T7]s stands in G^ and<br />

nfthat in E is an exact rendering <strong>of</strong> it,<br />

and cannot in any case mean 'patientia'<br />

—<strong>the</strong> meaning assigned in this solitary<br />

f'<br />

.<br />

case to it in Dillmann's Lexicon. The<br />

Ethiopic can only = /mxpuTris. From<br />

<strong>the</strong> conjunction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> words d'l/icffis Koi<br />

paKpriTTji (G^E) it is clear that fmapuTrjf<br />

here represents Kni3*"llN, and that after<br />

it <strong>the</strong>re stood originally ei<strong>the</strong>r K*OVT<br />

or Nnm : in <strong>the</strong> former case we should<br />

have <strong>the</strong> familiar phrase ' length <strong>of</strong><br />

days' (Heb. QiD'' TIN): in <strong>the</strong> latter<br />

•forbearance' (Heb. D"'SX']1'

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