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

Sect, l] Chapter XXII. 1-4 47
E
hollow places^ deep and wide
and very smooth, f How f
smooth are the hollow places
and deep and dark to look at.
hollow places in it, deep and
very smooth : f three f of them
were dark and one bright and
there was a fountain of water in
its midst. And I said : 'f Howf
smooth are these hollow places,
and deep and dark to view.'
3. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was
with me, and said unto me :
' These hollow places have been
created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the
dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children
of men should assemble here. 4. And these places have been
made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till
their appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great
judgement (comes) upon them.'
that wronged him, and asks :
' Whose
spirit is this?' Abel stands here for
a class— 22°"'—whose abode in Sheol is
no doubt along with the rest of the
righteous, 28'"- Hence we conclude
that there were originally only three
places in Sheol mentioned in this chapter.
fPourf . . . fthreef. Read
' Three . . . two '. See preceding note.
Hollow. Twice in E the text = icaKoi
corrupt for KoiKoi. . fHowf Since
the angel, in reply, gives the object of
' Sheol, how ' cannot be right : we ex-
pect ' why ', ' wherefore ', or ' for what
purpose '. Hence, I suggest that KD
(= wfis) was corrupt for KD?. Hence
read ' for what purpose are these hollow
places smooth and deep and dark to
view ?' Hollow places {G^
=
koi\w-
Hara). E = KvuXdiiiiaTa, a corruption.
Dark to view. This statement comes
in strangely after that made in the pre-
ceding sentence that there was
bright '.
' one
3-4. The object with which
Sheol was made a place of assemblage
for aU the departed. 3. Hollow
(G^ KotXoi). E = Ka\ol, corrupt. Have
been created (E). G- lapWrjaav corrupt
for hcTiff$7jtTav. Spirits of the
souls of the dead (G* £«"). Other
MSS. corrupt. 4. Have been made.
G^E = iTTOi'ijffaj' corrupt for iTroiTySi/irai'.
To receive them (G^ ds (Triaivaxaiv
avToiv—of which E is a free render-
ing). This seems to be the equivalent
of the ' promptuaria ' for departed souls
in 4 Ezra 4^" 7'^ which are called
' habitaoula ' in 7°°. See our text
100*.° note. [Till the period
appointed.] A dittograph. 5-7.
These verses have hitherto been sup-
posed to give a description of the iirst
division of Sheol for righteous souls
which in their life met with persecution
and suflfered a violent and undeserved
death. These cry continually to God
for vengeance on those who wronged
them. In the time of the author
many of the Chasidim must have
perished in this way. This idea of