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

38 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. I
have made known to the women; and through these mysteries
women and men work much evil on earth." 4. Say to them
therefore :
" You have no peace." '
XVII-XXXVI. Enoch's Journeys through the Earth and Sheol.
XVII-XIX. The First Journey.
XVII. 1. And they took '"and broughf me to a place in
which those who were ther-e were like flaming fire^ and when
they wished, they appeared as men. 2. And they brought me
to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose
summit reached to heaven. 3. And I saw the places of the
luminaries '"and the treasuries of the stars"' and of the thunder,
'"and^ in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows
and their quivei', "^and a fiery sword^ and all the lightnings.
4. And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the
this verse, r All 1 (Ge).>E. 4. Wo
peace ; see 5* (note).
XVII—XIX. These chapters are
certainly foreign to the rest of this
section. They are full of Greek ele-
ments. We have references in IV^- ' to
the Pyriplilegethon, Styx, Acheron and
Cocytus : in 17^' '> ' IS^", to the Ocean
Stream : in 17° to Hades in the west.
Again, 18'"° is a duplicate account of
241-=; 18i2-i« a duplicate account of
21i-«, and 18" of 21'-", though in the
last case there are important diver-
gencies. Again, according to 15^^-16
an end was set to the destructive
agencies of the fallen angels by their
imprisonment (cf. lO""'* l^")] whereas
according to 19^ the spirits of the fallen
angels are represented as seducing man-
kind to sacrifice to demons. Notwith-
standing these chapters belong to the
Enoch tradition.
XVII. 1. rAndbroughf- Supplied
from G*^. On the power of iissuming
different forms cf. 19' 2 Cor. 11".
2. Of darkness (G^ ^otpwhrf). E =
yvoijiuiSrj tailing fvufos in the sense of
' whirlwind ' or ' tempest ' as in Job
272° (LXX). On the idea in E cf.
Job 37'. The point of whose
summit (E). G' ' whose summit '.
3. Places of the luminaries. These
may be the ' chambers of the lumi-
naries '
; cf. 41'. r And the trea-
suries of the stars!. Supplied from
G« Of the thunder. Cf. 41^ 44 59
g()i3-i6 jjud notes. In the uttermost
depths = €is TO. dicpa pddTj. So I emend
E which = els ra dupa kv tqj ISdOfi
avTov (?). G^ reads eis rd depo0a9rj,
' in the depths of air.' Fiery bow—
the bow with which the lightnings are
shot; cf. Ps. 7^'' Hab. 3» Lam. 2< 3".
Arrows, i. e. the lightnings ; cf. Ps.
18147717,1a. Their quiver. Cf. Lam.
313. And a fiery sword (E). >G«.
Cf. Pp. 71=^ Deut. 32". 4. Took
(E). G^ 'brought'. Living waters.
So G^ and superscription in g. All
other MSS. of E read ' waters of
Ufe '. Cf. ' fountain of life ' in Ps. 36»
Prov. 10" 13" 1427 1622 Eev. 22".
The expression ' water of life' is found
in the Babylonian myths. In the