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

86 The Book of Enoch [Sect. II
2. And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me
all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was.
Acta 6". 2. The angel. MSS.
wrongly read 'one of the angela'-
See note on 40^ That Son of
Man. There are some difficulties con-
nected with this expression in Enoch,
as it has there three different Ethiopic
renderings, = filiiis hominu, i6^> '» *
482, fiiijis ^iri^ 62" 69" 71", and Jilius
prolix matris vicentium, 62'> ' " 63"
ggzo, 27 701 7117. and these are the
greater as the Ethiopic translator can
only have had one and the same phrase
before him, i.e. & m'os toC avOpimov.
For the LXX invariably uses m'os
6.v6piimv as a rendering of mN"p and
B'13N"P, and exact Greek equivalents
of the Ethiopic expressions are hardly
conceivable. Are we then to suppose
that these variations existed in the
Hebrew, and accordingly postulate on
the part of the Ethiopic translators a
direct acquaintance with an Hebrew
MS. (similarly, as Niildeke, Encyc.
Brit. xxi. 654, in the case of the Ethiopic
Bible, postulates the presence of Ara-
maic teachers in order to explain the
fact that certain religious conceptions
are there expressed by Aramaic words) ?
These suppositious are not necessary.
There is no strict uniformity of render-
ing in the Ethiopic Bible, vih avBp&itov
is rendered by ' proles matris viventium
in Num. 23" Pe. 8< 144S 146= (in the
last two instances, two distinct Hebrew
expressions are used) ; but by ' filius
prolis mall-is viventium ' in Pe. 80".
Tliis latter rendering is practically the
authorized one in the Ethiopic as it is
found throughout Ezekiel, in Dan. ?!',
and universally in the N. T. Again
"flnlL = rir is frequently used where
we should expect flflft = homo, and
vice versa. Hence_/i