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

60 TJie Book of Enoch [Sect. I
2. And thence I went over the siimmits o£ '"alP these moun-
tains, far towards the east ''of the earth"", and passed above
the Erythraean sea, and went far from it, and passed over ""the
angel"" Zotiei.
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3. And I came to the Gar-
den of Righteousness, and saw
beyond those trees many large
trees growing there and of
goodly fragrance, large, very
beautiful and glorious, and the
tree of wisdom whereof they
eat and know great wisdom.
has no further connexion with the
destinies of mankind accovding to the
Book of Enoch. The above conclusions
a.ppear tenable, although in Gen. 2' the
Garden of Eden is said to be in the
East, while in 3'* it is imijlied that it
lies in the West, and in l^"-^* in the
North. See Gimkel, Genesis^ 26.
These variations in Genesis are due
to different sources. 2. All
(G^')- > E. Of the earth (G^).
> E. Erythraean sea. The Persian
and Indian oceans : cf. 77^' ^. Went
(G^'). E reads kflnkft corrupt for hoi'kfl
= G^. Par from it (E = djro tovtov
fiaxpav). G^ reads Irr' "AKpaiv, Kat avo
TouTou = ' towards Akron and from I his '
The angel (B). > Ge. 3. Beyond.
So E, which so renders naKp69(v and
wrongly takes it as governing the following
words in the genitive. Growing
(E = tpvo/ifva), G^ reads Svm jxiv, but
this reading is certainly corrupt. If
ivai fiiv were original, then to iivbpov
T^s fcuij? would have to be inserted be-
fore Kal Tti Sivdpov TTJs (ppov-qa^m. But
the tree of life, according to 21^-25, is
in the neighbourhood of the chief of the
.
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3. And I came to the Gar-
den of Righteousness, and from
afar ofE trees more numerous
than these trees and great
—
ftwof trees there, very great,
beautiful, and glorious, and
magnificent, and the tree of
knowledge, whose holy fruit
they eat and know great
wisdom.
Seven Mountains in the NW. See
notes 321 25= IS^. The passages from
the Zohar quoted by Lawrence, and sub-
sequently adduced by Lods and Lawlor
in support of Sua) piiv cannot, therefore,
bear on onr text ; but may be derived
ultimately from 2 Enoch, and in part
from Gen. 3. Tliese passages are
(Lawrence, p. xxix) from vol. i, Parasha
JT'K'Knn, p. 37^ ed. Mont, et Amstel. -.
' Sanctns et Benedictus sustulit eum
(Enochum) ex mundo, ut ipsi serviret
. . . Ex eo inde tempore liber trade-
batur, qui Enochi dictus est. In hora
qua Deus eum sustulit, ostendebat ei
omnia repositoria suprema, ostendebat
ei arborem vitae medio in Jiorto, folia
eius atque ramos.' Again (vol. ii,
Parasha H^CD, p. 55") :
' In Enochi
libro uarratur, Sanctum et Benedictum,
cum ascendere eum iusseritet omnia ei
superiorum et inferiorum regnorum re-
positoria ostenderit monstrasse quoque
ariorem vitae et arborem de qua
Adamus praeceptum recepit.' These
passages refer to 2 Enoch. The italicized
words omnia repositoria suprema refer
to Paradise and Hell, which are described