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

Sect. Il] Chapter LX. 3-8 115
and for those who take His name in vain—that day is prepared,
for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
35. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest
upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of the
Lord of Spirits may not come in vain, and it shall slay the
children with their mothers and the children with their fathers.
Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His
mercy and His patience.^
7. And on that day were two monsters parted, a female
monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean
over the fountains of the waters. 8. But the male is named
Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness
named fDuidainf, on the east of the garden where the elect and
For the elect a covenant. Cf. Dan.
9* ' Who keepeth covenant . . . with
them that love Him
'
25. I have
restored this verse immediately after
ver. 6, where, if anywhere, it has some
meaning. Immediately preceding it
there is a dittograpli :
' in order that
the punishment of the Lord of Spirits
may not be (hex :
' may not come ' e :
all other MSS. omit negative and verb)
in vain, and may slay the children with
their mothers and the children with
their fathers.' Again, before the final
sentence beginning ' Afterwards', &c.,
all MSS. insert the following dittograph;
' When the punishment of the Lord of
Sp irits shall rest upon these.' 7-10.
A fragment dealing with oertaiu myths
relating to the Oreatiou but not to the
Deluge. 7. This strange faucy
about Behemoth and Leviathan, which
are first mentioned in Job 40 41, is
found by Jewish expounders also in
Gen. 121 Pa. 5010 ig. 271. For later
allusions see 4 Ezra 6"-52 2 Bar. 29''.
Here they are represented as huge
monsters created on the fifth day of
Creation to be the food of the right-
eous in Messianic times (cf. B. Bathra
74"). This doctrine does not appear
I
in 1 Enoch. For further information
see Weber, Jud. Theol. 202, 389,
402 ; Jewish Encyo. viii. 38 ; Eousset,
Bel. des Jadenthams, 271. The
Talmudio view agrees with that of
4 Ezra and 2 Bar. so far as to make Behemoth
food for the righteous. Foun-
tains of the waters : cf. G-en. 7^1 Job
3818 1 En. 89'. 8. fDilidaiut (u).
DUnadain, t DCindain, m,0-eh Den-
(J
dain, k Dein (?).
Probably in the longer
forms of the name we have a duplica-
tion of the initial letters, and Dain or
Dein was the older form of the word.
From the statement that the place lies
to the east of Eden, it seems clear, as
Kohut (Jewish Eucyc. viii. 39) has
pointed out, that the word is corrupt fur
Nai5 or Nud ; cf ta. This is ' the land
of Nod to the east of Eden ' (Gen. 4").
On the east of the garden, i. e. the
garden of Eden. The locality of Eden
varies in the different sections : see
notes on IS" 32^. 3 702-4 773. Here
again the question arises : have we to
do here with the earthly garden of
righteousness or with the heavenly ?
or are they after all identical ? See
note on 32'. The garden, which-
ever it is, is apparently empty in