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

100 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. II
And hell shall give back that which it owes.
5 a. For. in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2. And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them :
For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3. And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom
and counsel
:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath
glorified him.
4. And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted
up with joy.
seems to underlie the separate mention
of the two places. They are seemingly
distinguished even in Job 26° (28^^^).
2-5. These verses seem to be disar-
ranged. The judge is simply mentioned
as 'he ' in ver. 2, and is not particular-
ized as ' the Elect One ' sitting on God's
throne till ver. 3. Hence it would
seem at first sight that we should
transpose ver. 3 before ver. 2. But
there appears to be a better solution
of the difiiculty. ver. 2 has only two
lines and ver. 5 four. This fact suggests
that the missing line of ver. 2 is to be
found in ver. 6. This idea gains confirmation
when we observe that when
5" is restored before ver. 2, the first
line of each of the first four stanzas
begins with the phrase ' in those days ',
and the removal of 5" brings ver. i
and 5'"^'^ into a harmony of form and
subject. Chapter 51, then, is found to
consist of five stanzas of three lines
each. 5'. Shall arise, i. e. come
forward, appear. 2. Tlie day has
drawn nigh, &c. Cf. Luke 21^^.
3. The Messiah is the embodiment of
wisdom, 49', and in this wisdom shall
the members of his kingdom share, 48^
61'. ". Cf. 422 note. The Elect One
{fjmUjff). 5 Ji ' Mine Elect One '. My
throne (a). C^ 'His throne'. His
mouth shall pour . . . counsel.
Emended, q, read ' all the secrets of
wisdom shall go forth from the counsel
of his mouth '. But since a-q put
' all the secrets ' in the ace. and gu in-
sert ' and ' after ' wisdom ', I have read
jawad'6(forjSwad'S) = ' shall pourforth'
and omitted 'from' before 'counsel'-
4. The mountains leap, &c., i.e.
with joy; cf. Ps. 114*> ^ And the
faces of [all] the angels . . . shall
be lighted up with joy. There are
two ways of taking the original text
which is preserved in gqtu, the oldest
MSS. mala'Skt = 'angels' can either
be taken as the subject of the verb ac-
cording to gtti and gas&mfl as an
accusative of limitation :
' [all] the
angels shall be lighted up as to their
faces with joy,' or better ' angels ' can
be taken as a nominativus pendens
resumed in the sufiix in gas6mfl. Hence
' the faces of [all] the angels shall ', &c.
The text of m also would admit of this
rendering. The text of 2 is different but
gives the same sense. It reads lakuSUd