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

Sect. I] Chapters XV. b—XVI. 3 37
destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth,
and cause trouble :
they take no food, '"but nevertheless hunger""
and thirst, and cause offences. 12. And these spirits shall
rise up against the children of men and against the women,
because they have proceeded "^from them^-
XVI. 1. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and
death ''of the giants'^, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits,
having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement
—thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation,
the great '^judgement^ in which the age shall be consummated,
over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly con-
summated." 2. And now as to the Watchers who have sent
thee to intercede for them, who had been "^aforetime^ in heaven,
(say to them) : 3. " You have been in heaven, but ""air the
mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew
worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you
' pasturing' = jiVI, a corruption of
fyyi, ' layinj; waste,' which itself was
corrupted into pJJlf = veipikas. Cause
trouble (E). G^^ Spoftovs troiovvTa
where perhaps SpoijLovs is corrupt for
But nevertheless hun-
Tpo/xovs.
f
ger T (G^'). Beer quotes Wellhausen,
Besle Arab. Ileidenthmiiifl, 149 sq., to
the effect that the Jinns suffer from a
devouring hunger and yet cannot eat.
Instead of aunovvTa, \t.ii6iJT0VTa would
be better. G' adds koi ipaainara
TToiovvTa — possibly rightly. Cause
offences G^'. E is internally corrupt,
but by an easy emendation of Dillmann's
= G^'. Against the women
(E). Gs" = ' of the women '.
XVI. 1. The demons will not be
punished till the fiual judgement. This
doctrine likewise appears in the Book
of Jubilees lO^-n, and in the N. T. Cf
Matt. 8*', ' Art Thou come liither to
torment us before the time ? ' Of
the
giants (E G=). > Gs. + J^acfyijXdii, ot
iff^Vpol TTJS yi]S, ol fX£yd\Ot UVOpaffTOL G^.
These are derived from Gen. 6*. Ncupij-
.
Kuji is a, transliteration of DvS3, and
is thus a doublet of toiv yiyavrwv pre-
ceding, ol lax. '?' yv^ is an expansion of
Onnjn, and Oi ix€y. ovo/iaaToi of ''B'JX
DBTI. A different nomenclature is
given in G' 7^ (see note in loc), but
that passage is derived from a Noah
Apocalypse. From the souls of
whose flesh (£'"'!' G^). Here eny in
E alone preserve the true reading
though 'gmnafsat must be changed into
'fimnafsata. g reads 'Smnafseta, which
is an early corruption of the latter.
All the rest are still further corrupt.
We have here a Semitic idiom which
shows itself clearly in G^ cup' utv . . . ix
iTj^ Jpvxv^ TTJs aapKos auTwv = CD0?O ^1
|imD3 = 'from the souls of whose
flesh '. 2. Aforetime (E). > Ge^
3. This statement is the basis of Clem.
Alex. Strom, ed. Dindorf, iii. 9 oi
dyyfKoi IfCiTvoi ot tov dvoj KkTJpoy
ft\7/Xor€s, KaToXi(TOfj