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

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Sect. I] Chapters XXXII. 2—XXXIII. 3 61
4. ""That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are"^ like
(those of) the Carob tree : and its fruit is like the clusters of the
vine, very beautiful : and the fragrance of the tree penetrates
afar. 5. Then I said :
' ''How^ beautiful is the tree, and how
attractive is its look ! ' 6. Then Eaphael, the holy angel who
was with me, answered me "and said^ : 'This is the tree of wisdom,
of which thy father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who
were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom and their
eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they
were driven out of the garden.'
XXXIII. 1. And from thence I went to the ends of the
earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the
other ;
and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty
and voice, the one differing from the other. 3. And to the
east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the
lieaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. 3. And
I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the
in 2 Enoch 8-10. The next italicized
words arborem vilae Medio in horto—
may be talien directly from 8^ of the
same book or from G-en. 2°, while the
phrase arborem tie qua Adamus prae-
ccjtiuiit receplt might possibly refer to
1 Enoch 32'"', but much more likely to
Gen. 2^'. Whose holy fruit = o5. .
Tov icapnov avTov—an Aramaic idiom
n"i;a . . . ''=1.
, 4. That tree ... its
leaves are. So G^. > E through hmt.
Like the clusters of the vine . Accord-
ing to certain Rabbinic authorities the
tree of which Adam ate was the vine :
cf. Sanh. 70" D1K 1J0D ^aSB" \W
ISJ pCNin. See also Ber. 40". The
fragrance of the tree penetrates
afar. So E in q. ymu add asyndetically
after ' penetrates ' as a variant (?) ' pro-
ceeds ', while tfi subsequently connect
the two verbs. G^ reads ' its fragrance
penetrates afar from the tree'. 5.
Then (G^). ' E and '. Tore occurs
frequently in 6-32, i. e. 9^ 10^' '» 11^
13'. 6 21*. 5i 8 22'. 8, " 23* 2i'. « 25«. ' 27^
.
326, 6_ This is an Aramaic feature.
E in a few cases fails to preserve it.
How (GB iis). > E as in 24^ The
tree (G^). E reads 'this tree'; but
here, as frequently, E renders the Greek
article by a demonstrative pronoun.
And how. All MSS. of E except q
add ' beautiful and ' against G^ and q.
6. Adam and Eve seem to be still liv-
ing. Hence, if 10' belongs to this
section originallj', the writer adopted
the Samaritan cliroiiology. See 65^
(note). Observe that Adam's sin is
not regarded as the cause of man's full
and destruction in the deluge. Then
(Ge). E ' and '. See note on 32=.
Baphael. We should, according to
20', expect Gabriel here. And said
(E). >Gi='. Of which. G^ breaks
off with k^ o5 etpayev 6 irarrjp aov.
XXXIII. 2. "Whereon the heaven
rests. See 18= note. 3. The
portals of the stars here mentioned are
described at length in 72-82. If we
are to regard the two accounts as in the