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

Sect. l] Cha:pters XVI. 4.—XVIII. 2 89
west, which receives every setting of the sun. 5. And I came
to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges
itself into the great sea towards the west. 6. I saw the great
rivers and came to the great '^river and to the great^ darkness^
and went to the place where no flesh walks. 7. I saw the
mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all
the waters of the deep flow. 8. I saw the mouths of all the
rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
XVIII. 1. I saw the treasuries of all the winds ; I saw how
He had furnished with them the whole creation and the firm
foundations of the earth. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of
the earth : I saw the four winds which bear [the earth and] the
Adapa Myth it is parallel to the ' bread
of life ', while in the Descent of Ishtar,
lalitar is sprinkled with it before she
leaves the lower world. See K.A.T?
524 sq., 562. Pire of the west : see
23 (notes). 'WMch. receives every
setting of the sun. Blau, in the
Jewish Enct/c. v. 682, explains this
fire in the west to be Gehenna. He
says the sun receives its fire from it,
and he quotes Baba Eathra 84°. But
this is quite wrong. Gehenna is not
in the west in Enoch, and the passage
in the Talmud merely says that the sun
is red in the evening because it passes
the gate of Gehenna, just as it is red
in the morning because it passes the
roses of the Garden of Eden. Receives
(E). G^ napixov. 5. Biver
of Are. The UvpitpXtyiOav, Great
sea. 'niaavus or the Great Ocean
Stream. Towards the west (E).
G^'of the west'- 6. I saw (G^).
E 'and I saw'. The great rivers.
Styx, Acheron, and Cocytus. Kiver
and to the great. Supplied from G^.
No flesh (G^). E ' all flesh'. 7. I
saw (G^). E' and I.saw'. This omis-
sion of the copula is more in keeping
with vkjamaic idiom . The mountains
of the darkness (E) = rd. oprj tSiv
yvoipav—a phrase that is most probably
derived from Jer. IS'" f\\c}i ^in where
the Targ. Jon. has b^i? n.lD. In tlje
original then we should have had
t