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

Sect. l] Chapter XXII. 5-11 49
E
9. And he answered me and
said unto me :
' These three
have been made that the spirits
of the dead might be separated.
And such a division has been
made (for) the spirits of the
righteous, in which there is
the bright spring of water.
10. And such has been made
for sinners when they die and
are buried in the earth and
judgement has not been
executed on them in their life-
time. 11. Here their spirits
shall be set apart in this great
pain till the great day of judge-
ment and punishment and
for KoiKufiaTwv. 9. The first divi-
sion is for the souls of the righteous
—
both those who have been martyred
and those who have not. Spirits. In
E only n reads ' spii-its ', the rest give
' souls '. But the word nafs in E fre-
quently means spirit as in IS^^ 69'^ 99',
as well as in verses 11, 12, 13 of this
chapter. Hence I have rendered it
'spirit' in such cases. In which.
Here G""' has ov . . . h atnSi = ^3 • • ''1.
The bright spring of water. In E
for ' bright' the text gives ' brightness'
or 'light'. In the underworld, souls,
according to the Greek Cults, Jewish,
Hellenistic, and Christian literature,
suffered from thirst : see Dieterich,
Nelcyia, 97 sqq. In the Greek Hades
there was a spring of forgetfulness
on the left, while on the right was
the spring of memory—the cool water
— if/vxp^" iiSaip, by the drinking of
which consciousness and memory were
quickened, the first condition of the full
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9. And he answered me say-
' These three have been
made that the spirits of the
dead might be separated. And
this division has been made for
the spirits of the righteous^ in
which there is the bright spring
of water. 10. And this has
been made for sinners when
they die and are buried in the
earth and judgement has not
been executed upon them in
their lifetime. 11. Here
their spirits shall be set apart
in this great pain, till the great
day of judgement, scourgings,
and torments of the accursed
or blessed life. See Eolide, Payche, ii. 2,
310, 390-391. The expression ' water
of life' is found in Babylonian litera-
ture in the Adapa Myth and the
Descent of Ishtar, K.A.T.^ 523 sqq.
10-11. The second division is for those
sinners who lived prosperously and
escaped punishment in life, and finally
attained to honourable burial. Accord-
ing to Hebrew and Greek idaas the
privation of funeral rites was a great
calamity, and involved, at least accord-
ing to ancient ideas, inevitable suffer-
ing for the departed soul. 10.
And this. In E bakama kamahd is
corrupt for wakamalid = ital ovtojs.
Here ovtois is corrupt for evros the de-
monstrative. The angel points to each
division as he describes it. I have in-
troduced this emendation into my trans-
lation of G« in verses 9, 10, 12, 13.
11. Great pain. Cf. 103'. » Luke
j82s-25_ Great day of judgement.
Cf. 45^ n. The accursed. Here twv