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

Sect. II] Chapters LXIII. ll—LXV. 2 129
And they shall be driven from his presence.
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12. Thus spake the Lord of Spirits :
' This is the ordinance and
judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the
exalted and those who possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.'
Vision of thefallen Angels in the Place of Punishment.
LXIV. 1. And other forms I saw hidden in that place.
2. I heard the voice of the angel saying :
' These are the angels
who descended to the earth, and revealed what was hidden to
the children of men and seduced the children of men into
committing sin.'
Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation.
LXV. 1. And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had
sunk down and its destnietion was nigh. 2. And he arose
from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud
to his grandfather Enoch : and Noah said three times with an
tion. If we excise it the whole chapter The main reasons for this conolusion
refers to the judgement of the Lord of are to be found in the note on 84'.
Spirits. This verse closely resembles Like the other Noachic interpolations,
62'°. 12. Thus (a-g). g ' as ',
^ ' and thus '.
LXIV. A brief digression on the
nature : it deals mainly with three
subjects : (1) 65'-67', the impending
fallen angels whose j udgement has Flood and the deliverance of Noah
this interpolation is of a fragmentary
already been described in the second (2) 67^-69', the punishment of the
Parable, 54' ""' 55'' *. This chapter, fallen angels, with a digression on the
if originally a part of the Parables, kings and the mighty ; (3) BO^"^',
as it quite well can be, is in the wrong the fall of the angels and the secrets
place here ; for ' that place ', spoken they disclosed.
of as the place of punishment of the LXV. 1. Observe that the vision is
angels, cannot be Sheol referred to in Noah's. The vision opens here with a
63'". 2. I heard, m, vx
' and I subsidence of the earth, as in 60' with
heard'. Voice of the angel, m 'voice a quaking of the heavens. And(g, /3).
of the angels '. Descended. + t,0 > a-q. Noah, t ' I Noah ', and in
' from heaven '. the first person throughout verses 1-2.
LXV—LXlX. 25. These chapters 2. The ends of the earth. The en-
professedly and in fact belong to a trance to heaven is at the ends of the
Noah Apocalypse, and have no right earth. Cf. 106*. Grandfather. In
to form a part of the text of Enoch. reality great-grandfather; cf 60*.
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