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

Sect. II] Chapter LX. 9-16 117
divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the
winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind,
and the power of the hghts of the moon, and according to the
power that is fitting : and the divisions of the stars according to
their names, and how all the divisions are divided. 13. And
the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all the
divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten,
and their host that they may at once obey. 14. For the
thunder has f places of restf (which) are assigned (to it) while it
is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are
inseparable, and although not one and ixndivided, they both go
together through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when
the lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit
enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally between
them ; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each
one of them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back
by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward according to the
many quarters of the earth. 16. And the spirit of the sea is
masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength
he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven
forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth.
read ' in the chambers ', &c. How unintelligible. Hal(5vy's discussion of
thayareweiglied : of. 41' 43^ Job 28^'. this passage (Journ. Asiat, 369-372,
Portals. So Flemming emends anq'eta 1867) is worth consulting. He arrives
(a) into 'anaqda. Spirits or angels are at the following translation :
' For the
appointed to control the various pheno- thunder has fixed laws in reference to
mena of nature. This is peculiar to these the duration of its peal which is
interpolations, as in other parts of the assigned to it: the thunder and the
book the powers of nature are either lightning are not separated in a single
personified or are regarded as conscious instance : they both proceed with one
intelligences ; cf. 18'^"^'. The view accord .and separate not. For when
taken by the interpolator is followed by the lightning lightens, the thunder
the Book of Jubilees 2^, where we find utters its voice, and the spirit during
' angels of the spirit of fire '
', angels of its peal makes its arrangements, and
hail ', ' angels of hoar-frost '
', angels of divides the time equally between
thunder ', &o., Eev. 7'. ' 14" (angel them.' 16. The ebb and flow of
of fire) ; 19^' (angel of the sun) ; Aso. the sea explained. Disperses amid
Is. iv. 18. Lights of the moon. all the mountains. With the flow of
Its various phases. 13. Cf. Job the sea is connected its subterranean
37'"°. X4. This verse ig very advance into the mountains to nourish