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

88 The Booh of EnocJi [Sect. TT
With whom dwelleth righteousnessj
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden.
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of
Spirits in uprightness for ever.
4. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
Shall f raise up f the Icings and the mighty from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And shall loosen the reins of the strong.
And break the teeth of the sinners;
5. [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and
kingdoms]
Because thej^ do not extol and praise Him,
been revealed to them, 62' ; he is the
avenger of their life, 48', the preserver
of their inheritance, 48' ; he will
vindicate the earth as their possession
for ever, Sli*, and establish the com-
munity of the righteous in unhindered
prosperity, 53° 62' ; their faces will
shine with joy, 51'>, and they will be
vestured with life, 62^'', and be re-
splendent with light, 39', and he will
abide in closest communion with them
for ever, 62'', in the immediate pre-
sence of the Lord of Spirits, 39', and
his glory is for ever and ever, and his
might unto all generations, 49^. Who
hath righteousness. On the Jlessiah
as the possessor of righteousness cf
Is. 9"-' 11» 'ii- Jer. 23« Zech. 9« Pss.
Sol. 172-'. '^, 2», '1. «, « is». Hath
chosen him. Hence he is called ' the
Elect One' : see 38^ (note) 40^ (note).
Whose lot hath the pre-eminence
(ae/m). m-ePiVc read ' whose lot
liath surpassed everything', cf Heb. I''.
4. This = the Greek article. See note
on 46^ Shall f raise upf. The
verb is here obviously corrupt. The
clause ' shall raise up the kint>s . . .
from their thrones' and 46^^ " ' shall put
down the kings from their thrones ' are
dittographs. One or other is corrupt
and one or other is an intrusion. Tiie
parallelism seems to be in favour of
46^'' being retained, though the verb
gives the wrong sense, whereas the
right sense 'shall put down' is obviously
preserved in 46^ ". It is hard to ex-
plain with any confidence the origin of
this error. Possibly D^'l'' stood in the
original, which could mean either
' shall raise up ' or ' shall remove,
destroy '. The present context could
admit only of the latter meaning. Or
we might take the former verb as =
PID'— a corruption of 7*3^—• shall ca.«t
down,' seeing that in 46« » the same
verb in the Ethiopic for ' shall jiut
down' is given. 'Shall put down the
countenance ' = d^JS 7"B\ Cf. 4S*.
In any case we should read ' shall put
down the kings', &c. It is possible
that Is. 14" 'it hath raised up from
their thrones all the kings of the
nations' may have led to the abo%e
misrendering or corruption. With the
restored text we might compare such ex-
pressions as Sir. 10" OpSvotn apxovTuv
KaeeiAev i Kvpios, Wisd. 5*^ irepiTpfipet
9puvovs SvvaaToiv. The clause in Luke
1"^ icaBuKt Svia