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

116 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. II
righteous dwellj where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh
from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created.
9. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the
might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and
east, the one into the abysses of the sea, and the other unto
the dry land of the wilderness. 10. And he said to me
' Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is
hidden.'
11. And the other angel who went with me and showed me
what was hidden told me, what is first and last in the heaven
in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the
ends of the heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven.
12. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are
Enoch's time in 3'2'~^, and tlie right-
eous dead are in the West, 22 ; it
is the abode of the righteous and
the elect in Enoch's and Noah's
times in ei^^ eO*. ^ ; the abode of
the earliest fathers in Enoch's time,
70^^"' ;
the abode of Enoch and Elijah
in Elijah's time, ii^'' : see 66" (note).
This passage and the LXX are the
oldest testimonies for the translation of
Enoch unto Paradise : later this idea
made its way into the Latin version of
Sir. iJ"" and the Ethiopio version of
Gen. S'* : eight others shared this
honour with Enoch according to the
Talmud, Weber, 251. Seventhfrom
Adam: of. 93^ Jude 14 Book of
Jubilees 7'"'. 7-9, 24. i Ezra 6"-52
and 2 Bar. 29* appear to have drawn
on our text. The following citation
with references tends to prove this.
i Ezra 6" ' Et tunc fconservasti ( = fl'lSi
corrupt for mS'' : hence read ' creasti ')
duo animalia, nomen uni voeasti
Behemoth et nomen secuiuli vocasli
Lenuthun '
(1 Enoch 60'. *). 6^" ' M
sepurasti ea ah alterutro (1 Enoch 60°),
nou euim poterat septima para ubi erat
aqua congregata oapere ea '. 6^^ ' Et
dediati Behemoth unain partem quae
siccata (1 Enoch 60'< °) est tertio die, ut
inhabitet (60*) in ea ubi sunt montes
mille': 6^^^ 'Leviathan natem dedisli
septimam partem humidam (60*> ') :
servasti ea ut fiant in devorationem
(60^*) quibus vis et quaudo vis'.
2 Bar. 29* 'And Behemoth shall be
revealed from his place and Lecia-
than shall asceudjft-on! the sea, those itco
great monsters (1 Enoch 60'> *) which
I created on the fifth clay of creation,
and kept until that time; and then
they shall tie for food for all that are
left '. 9. The ('that ' q, fi-n) other
augel :
see vv. i, 11. 10. Thou
son of man. This use of the phrase
is after the manner of Ezekiel, and
stands in strong contrast with the
main conception of the Son of Man
in the Parables, 46^"^ (notes). 11.
We should expect the answer to the
question in ver. 9 to follow here, but it
is not given till ver. 24, and a, long
account (11-23) dealmg with physical
secrets intervenes. In eO'^* it is the
angel of peace who gives the answer.
The other angel who went with
me and showed me, &c. Borrowed
from 46" ; of. 43'. 12. Chambers of
the winds : cf. 18^ 41