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

Sect. II] Chapters LIII. l—LIV. 4 106
preparing all the iastruments of Satan. 4. And I asked the
angel of peace who went with me :
' For whom are they preparing
these instruments ?
' 5. And he said unto me :
' They prepare
these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may
thereby be destroyed.
6. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the
house of his congregation to appear :
more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
henceforth they shall be no
7. And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his
righteousness^
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water.
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of
sinners.^
LIV. 1. And I looked and turned to another part of the earth,
and saw there a deep valley with burning fire. 3. And they
brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into
this deep valley. 3. And there mine eyes saw how they made
these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.
4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying
aehk). hcrJ/lnopxt/iaJ/ = ' going '.
5. Prepare (/3). > a. These. > qu,
nx. This earth. Here ' this ' is pro-
bably for the Greek article. 6.
House of his congregation : cf. 62*
see 38^ (note). The houses of his
congregations are the synagogues ; cf.
Ps. 74'. 7. These mountains
. . - the hills. There is a return
here to the figurative language of
52. The mountaius and the hills are
symbols of the world powers as per-
sonated in the kings and the mighty.
Before the Messiah's righteousness, the
mountains (i. e. the kings) will not be
like the earth which abideth for ever,
Ps. 781=8 Ecclea. 1* ;
and the hills (i. e.
the mighty) shall be as a fount of water,
Is. 64' ; cf. 52^. The earth's great ones
will become streugthless and vanish at
the presence of the Messiah. His
righteousness (a-g). 5, f'P-n, ' His
face '.
LIV. In 53 the writer described the
scene of the judgement and the fetters
that were being prepared to bind the
kings on their condemnation. Here he
speaks of Gehenna into which the kings
are cast : they are punished in the sight
of the righteous ; cf. 621^. The fallen
angels are cast into a I'urnace of fire.
The idea of the fallen angels and kings
being judged together is to be traced
to Is.
24'i> 22. 1. To another
part of the earth. The writer now
turns from the valley of Jehoshaphat
on the north-east of Jerusalem to the
valley of Hinnom lying to the south of
it. A deep valley : see 48° (note).
This valley seems to be that spoken of
in 56'. *. 2. This > q, hcdxy.
3-5. The pre-Messianio judgement of
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