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

Sect. II] Chapter LU. 2-9 103
6. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the
mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal,
and the mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One,
As wax before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon
those mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
7. And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8. And there shall be no iron for war.
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service.
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed.
And lead shall not be desired.
9. And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the
surface of the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord
of Spirits.'
Spirits (a-m). m, 1^0 'the Lord of of mail' (or 'breastplate'). In a-z( there
Spirits Ijas established'. 6. As wax is a dittograph : 'nor garment ('nor
before the fire. Cf. 1^ Ps. 97^ Mic. 1*. shall one clothe oneself g) for war nor
Like the water which streams down, garment for a breastplate ' (or ' coat of
Mic. 1*. MSS.addhere 'upon those moun- mail '). Shall be of no service and.
tains '. The thought of this verse recurs Bracketed as a dittograph from the pre-
in 53''. 7. From Zeph. 1^* ' Neither ceding line, y omits ' and shall not be
their silver nor their gold shall be able esteemed '. 9. Be [denied and] de-
to deliver them '. Cf. Is. 13". 8. stroyed. We have here two alternative
ITor shall one clothe oneself with a renderings of 11113^ such as cmapv-qSi]-
breastplate (or 'coat of mail'). I have aovTui and atpaviaS-qaovTai. One was
here read wa'iJBlabSs with q instead of originally in the text and the other in
wa'tlSbSs with gt, eflin^aj) or wa'ilebsa the margin, but subsequently both were
with mu, ahcMox = 'nor garment for incorporated into the text. Schmidt,
a breastplate'. I have omitted la be- who advocates an Aramaic original,
fore der'a with u, though the construe- proposes X13"l; but this verb means ' to
tion with la should be possible. Other- cast down' and 'to deceive'—senses
wise with «,i8 render 'garment for a coat which do not explain our text.