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

Sect. I] Gha:pter XVIII. 3-10 41
coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jaeinthj and those
towards the south of red stone. 8. But the middle one reached
to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit
of the throne was of sapphire. 9. And I saw a flaming fire.
And beyond these mountains 10. Is a region the end of the
N
The Great Mountain : Three Mountains : Garden of Righteousness : Seas of Waters
Three
Mountains
W
With the above sketch, which represents
the views of all the Sections of Enoch,
it is difBcult to reconcile the statement
in 60*, where a waste wilderness named
Dendain is said to lie to the east of
the Garden. See note on 32'. This
idea of the seven mountains seems
to be originally derived from Babylo-
nian sources, and had ultimately to do
with the seven planet gods, the seven-
fold division of the heaven and the
like division of the earth, six-sevenths
land and one-seventh sea, 4 Ezra 6**,
the seven great rivers and seven great
islands, 1 Enoch 77'>'=. See K.A.T.^
615-619. With the mountains in
our text those mentioned in 52^ 77*
may originally have been connected.
Threei" (E). > G^. 7. Ja-
cinth (?) E = iaaiojs. This may be
corrupt for I'ainriSos (= ^S5^''') 'jasper'.
But since raSiv is the reading of G^,
the Ethiopic translator probably found
merely a corrupt form which suggested
some derivative of idaSai as laTiKov.
This word taken in conjunction with
raSeu might point to iarnvBov or lavBifov
as Diels suggests. Beer takes it to be
a, transliteration of mDD 'topaz'.
Where the ideas of the various stones
are drawn from cannot be said with
certainty. Of. Ezek. 28"; K.A.T.^
619, 624. The difficulty of determining
this is enhanced by the difficulty of
identifying the stones in question.
8. Like the throne of God. In 253
it is declared to be the throne of God.
This mountain of God, which as we
have seen vva^ conceived to be in tlie
NW., is already referred to in Is. 14'^,
where it is said to be in the N.
The throne of God in Ezekiel 1^^ which
is borne of cherubim comes from the
N., as appears from 1*; of. Job 37**.
This throne is ' the holy mountain of
God' in Ezek. 28"'", where ' stones
of fire ' are associated with the moun-
tain of God, as in our text 18° 24'.
Indeed in Ezek. 28""" the Garden or
Paradise and the Mountain of God are
already associated as in Enoch, or iden-
tified. Alabaster. G^ ipovxa, i.u.
N31S. Sapphire. Ezek. l*^. 9.
And beyond these (G^ ica{we)x£iva
Toiv . . . TOvTOJv'). E corrupt nal a k-nl
(Kuvwv TOIV bpiav, for kuellfi is cor-
rupt for 'ellft, but attests the same text.
The statement in 24' would lead us to
connect this clause with what precedes,
but the Kai is against it. Hence I have
combined it with the next verse. But
the former may be right. The seven
mountains are encircled with fire
—
according to 24' by a mountain range
of fire. In the translation I always
follow G^ in the case of eirixava as it