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

42 The Book of Enoch [Seot. i
great earth: there the heavens were completed. 11. And I
saw a deep abyss, with columns ""of heavenly fire, and among
them I saw columns'" of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike
towards the height and towards the depth. 13. And beyond
that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven
above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it : there was no
water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible
place. 13. I saw there seven stars like great burning moun-
tains, and to me, when I inquired regarding thera, 14. The
angel said :
' This place is the end of heaven and earth : this has
become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15. And
the stars which roll over the fire are they which have trans-
gressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their
rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times.
16. And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time
when their guilt should be consummated (even) '"for ten thousand
years"".'
XIX. 1. And Uriel said to me :
' Here shall stand the angels
who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits
assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall
lead them astray into sacrificing to demons ""as gods"", (here shall
is always misrendered in B; of. 18" The Lord (G^). E 'God'. The
24^ 30'. 5 31^. 10. The same idea stars are regarded as conscious beings
as in 18^ SS''. 11. This may be the and are accordingly punished. The
final place of punishment for the fallen aaripfs wknv^Tai of Jude 13 recall
angels. If so, cf. 1C«. '^ igii Jl'-io this Terse. Bising. + on tSitos i^ai
90**. Of heavenly fire ; cf. Gen. 19^* toC oipavov k(v6s ((Ttiv G^—a gloss on
Ps. 11^ Ezek. 38^2. > roO nvpis toC the last clause of ver. 12. 16. Ten
oipavov KoX idov h avroTs arvKovs thousand years (G^ iviavjav ii.vp'iaiv).
through hmt.G^. Height ... depth E corrupt = IwaurS iivaT-qpiov. Cf.
(E). oo Ge. 12-16. This place of 21«.
punishment for the disobedient stars is XIX. See introductory note on xvii-
again described in 211-6. n jg already xix, p. 38. 1. Sacrificing to de-
occupied. 13-16. The stars are mons ; cf. Deut. 32" Ps. 106" Bar.
really personified as animate beings. 4'. This passage and 99' are probably
13. And to me, when I inquired the source of TertuUian, De Idol, iv
regarding them {mpl Siv nmeavoiiha ' Henoch praedicens onmia elementa,
l^oi QB). E corrupt = «ai cis Trvev/iara omnem mundi censum, quae caelo, quae
r.vyea,6^levi ixov. 14. Host of mari, quae terra continentur, in idola-
heaven, D-Wn S3it ;
cf. 1 Kings tiiam versuros daemonaset spiritus de-
22i». but specially I,. 2i^K 15. sertorum angelorum, ut pro Deo adver-