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

Sect, ll] Chapters LX. ll—LXI. 4 119
monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall
feed. . . .
Angels go off to measure Paradise : ilie Judgement of
tie Righteous
ly the Meet One : the Praise of the Elect One and of God.
LXI. 1. And I saw in those days how long cords were given
to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and
they went towards the north.
2. And I asked the angel, saying unto him :
' Why have
those (angels) taken these cords and gone off ? ' And he said
unto me : ' They have gone to measui*e/
3. And the angel who went with me said unto me
' These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous.
That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of
Spirits for ever and ever.
4. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect.
here may be due to the interpolator.
Elsewhere this chapter speaks of ' an-
other angel' sent by Michael, 60*> '< ^'.
LXI. 1. Here the true text of the
Parables is resumed, but the opening
verses are very difficult. Those
angels, q reads ' the two angels'. The
angels here referred to may have been
definitely named in some preceding
part now lost. Wings. In the O. T.
the angels are not represented as winged,
unless in its latest books ; cf. 1 Chron.
21^'. Towards tie north., i. e. the
north-west ; cf. 70'. Paradise is the
destination of the angels ; cf. 60' (note).
2. The angel, i.e. the angel of peace,
who is the anrjelus interpres in the
sections dealing with the Elect One :
see Introd. p. 64
' long cords '.
sq. Cords (a).
Have gone. >
mu, d. To measure, {q)tuP. ' gm to
begin' by a scribal slip. The cords
which the angels take with them are
for measuring Paradise. See the refer-
ence to this in 70'. For this idea of
angels with measuring cords see Ezek.
40'.' Zech. 21-'. 3-4. Here as
ch. 52 there are two sources. These
verses belong to the 'Son of Man'
source, since the angelus interpret is
' the angel who went with me ' See
Ir.trod. p. 64 sq. 3. The measures
of the righteous represent alike the
blessed and their habitation. They
are an ideal representation of the com-
munity of the righteous, living and
departed, and reveal especially the
latter ; for it matters not by what
death these perished; they are alive
unto the Lord of Spirits, and will re-
turn and stay themselves on the day
of his Elect One : these measures are
given to faith and strengthen the
righteous,
> m, fi-n.
To the righteous (gqtu, n).
Stay themselves on. Cf
48* 61^ 4. Sinners will be driven
;
.