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

iO The Book of Enoch [Sect. I
firmament of the heaven. 3. "^And I saw how the winds
stretch out the vaults of heaven"", and have their station between
heaven and earth : ""these are the pillars of the heaven""- 4. I
saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference
of the sun and all the stars to their setting. 5. I saw the
winds on the earth carrying the clouds : I saw ""the paths of
the angels : I saw"" at the end of the earth the firmament of the
heaven above. 6. And I proceeded and saw a place which
burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of
magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards
the south. 7. And as for those towards the east (one) was of
p. 46 (n. 6) proposes to read t^s 7^s
instead of rijv yfiv, and to omit «oi.
Hence ' the four winds of the earth
bearing the firmament'. But the t^s
7^1 or T^j' yqv seems wholly wrong
here. It could have arisen in the Ara-
maic through a dittograph. Thusl5o^'7•ol>s
Ttoaapas avtpiovs T^v yqv ^affra^ovras =
paiDD N3)"IN Wlt< K^nn mn where
i 06 through hmt. At the end
of the earth the firmament, &c.
The ends of the firmament of heaven
rest on the ends of the earth ; cf. 33^
the vault of heaven is supported by the
winds, IS''" '. 6-9. This is another
version of what is recounted in 24i"*.
6. And saw a place G^ ;
i. e. xal uSov
TOTTov for which E corruptly reads iU tov
voTov. The seven mountains are in the
NW. Cf. 77s-' 70=1. Indeed the closing
words of this verse imply that these
mountains are in the NW.—three ex-
tending towards the south and three
towards the east from the NW. corner
where the seventh stands. Seven
mountains. These mountains, as I have
shown in the note preceding, are in
the NW. They and the Garden lie in
the same quarter, the Garden to the east
of the seven mountains, 321"^ : according
to 70' the Garden lies in the NW.,
and so appai'ently in 77'. These
mountains are bounded by flaming
mountain ridges 24^ (18°). In 241-' the
seven mountains are as here in the
N W., while the verses that follow 24* "i-
refer in some way to the Garden ; for
they speak of the tree of life. Again,
it is worth observing that in 77' the
seas of waters are said to adjoin the
Garden. The same idea underlies
gQ22-23_ Ti,e Jewish ideas on these
matters might be represented therefore
thus :
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