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

44 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. I
qaelj one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin
in the spirit. 7. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over
Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. 8. Remiel, one
of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
XXI-XXXVI. The Second Journey of Enoch.
XXI. Preliminary ani final place of pimishment of the fallen
angels (stars).
XXI. 1. And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. 2. And
I saw there something horrible : I saw neither a heaven above
nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible.
3. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in
it, like great mountains and burning with fire. 4. Then I
said :
' For what sin are they bound, and on what account have
they been cast in hither?' 5. Then said Uriel, one of the
holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and
said :
' Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for
(Gt'i. 2). EIttitS \aS. 6. Saraqael
(E). GBi, zSariel. Spirits. + ' of
mankind' E. 7. Gabriel should
be the speaker in 32 according to this
verse. 8. This verse is preserved only
in G" ^, but it is genuine as is shown by
the preservation of the number irrTO. in
Qe 1, 2_ Here G^ ' ' add ' seven names
of archangels ', Kemiel. Cf. 2 Bar.
55= i Ezra 43 ^
—
Ttipi Tivos rijv dK^Seiav (ptKoairovdfts ;).
G is clearly here a rendering of X2Sn
N^'S^. This is the actual phrase iu
Dan. 7i« nVaS N^ir, where hoth the
LXX and Tiieod. have T^y dapiffeiav
e(riTovv. A modified form of the plirase
recurs in 25' Sid ri e4\(is rrjv dKri$eiav
fuxBeTv ; = H^Slp MiTI—which con-
struction occurs also in D,an. 71", i.e. D'^S
N35t:^ where the LXX rightly has
fi9f\ov i^aicpi^daaaOai, and Theoil. less
accurately l^-qTovv dupiPSis. Now that
we have determined the Aramaic and
Greek renderings, we turn to E. First
of all in 21^ E = irepi tiVos dxpijioh uaX