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

Sect. II] Chapters LVIII. i—LX. 2 113
curse as the Lord o£ Spirits willeth. 2. And there I saw the
secrets of the thunder^ and how when it resounds above in the
heaven^ the sound thereof is heard^ and he caused me to see the
judgements executed on the earthy whether they be for well-
being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word of the
Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the secrets of the
lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for
blessing and for satisfying.]
Book of Noah—a Fragment,
Quaking of the Heaven : Behemoth and Leviathan : the Elements.
LX. 1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on
the fourteenth day of the month in the life of fEnochf . In that
Parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of
heavens to quake, and the host of the Most High, and the
angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the
Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels
and the righteous stood around Him.
37^^. 2. Cf. 60^^"^^. He caused me according to Levitical law, was the eve
to see (a-UfCef/ikny). abdovx lO-xb' they of the Feast of Tabernacles. In
caused me to see ' Judgements. that Parable. This phrase marks a
Text = olK-QiiaTa ' dwelliugs' corrupt clumsy attempt to connect this chapter
for KpiftaTa (or oiicr]TTipia corrupt for with the main context, but betrays the
Kpnripia). On the earth. All MSy. hand of the interpolator. A Parable
but u add 'and the voice of the thunder'. in Enoch's sense is an account of a
' Lord of Spirits ' incorporated from the vision ; but the text requires here the
adjoining context. 3. Job 38^^"'''. word ' vision ' ; for the writer says, ' I
LX. This chapter is one of the saw the heaven quaking.' The
Noachic fragments. For the grounds heaven ... to quake. This was a token
on which these are regarded as inter- of the manifestation of divine judgepolatious
see 54' (note) : also the fol- raent ; cf. 1". '. Host of the Most
lowing notes on 60^1 ^> '*> ^"^ ", &c. High ... a thousand thousands : cf.
1. The year five hundred. This 1" 40^ 71'> i'. 2. Head of Days :
date is drawn from Gen. 5'^ and is see 46^ (note) 54' (note). The
a date in the life of Noah and not of angels and the righteous. Accord-
Enoch as it stands in our text. For ing to this we are to regard God as
Enoch we should read Noah. In accompanied by angels and saints.
the seventh month, on the four- The righteous here can have no other
teenth day of the month. This, meaning. Such a conception of the
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