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

Sect. II] Chapters LXVI. 1—LXVII. 6 133
the augels are making a wooden (building), and when they have
completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it,
and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change
shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabi-
tant. 3. And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever
and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee :
it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be
blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord/
4. And He will imprison those angels, who have shown
unrighteousness, in that burning valley which my grandfather
Enoch had formerly shown to me in the west among the
mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin.
5. And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion
and a convulsion of the waters. 6. And when all this took
place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion
said that Noah himself makes the arli.
Have completed, t, and a-t but in
a corrupt form. ' have gone '.
3. Cf. 65". It shall not be un-
fruitful = 'Ijgniakgn, emended from
'IjSmakgr (a, P-hdoxy ^b) . hdoxy fi omit.
Otherwise read 'ijSmekSrft ' they shall
not tempt (thy seed) '. But the text
is wholly uncertain. 4—IiXIX.
1. This section deals with the punish-
ment of the fallen angels and its signi-
ficance in regard to the kings and the
mighty. It is very confused. Part of the
confusion is owing to an original confu-
sion of thought on the part of the writer,
and much to the corruptness of the text.
The latter is largely obviated by the
ascertainment of a better text : see
Grit. Notes on vv. 8, 11, 13. As for
the former, it has been caused by the
writer describing the first judgement in
features characteristic of the final, and
in identifying localities in the Parables
which are absolutely distinct, i. e. the
burning valley of Gehenna is placed
among the metal mountains, 67^, though
it is definitely said to lie in another
direction, 54^, in the Parables. It is
obvious, therefore, that no weight is
to be attached to plirases denoting
locality in this section. 4. After
treating of the judgement of mankind
through the Deluge, the writer proceeds
to describe the judgement of the angels,
who were the real cause of man's cor-
ruption. The fallen angels are cast
into a burning valley—really the
Gehenna valley of 54. There is a
twofold confusion here. It is not said
that the angels in 54 were cast into the
valley of Gehenna, but into a 'burning
furnace'; and, in the second place,
this was the final place of punishment,
notthe preliminary. But,again, the burn-
ing valley is here said to be amongst
the metal mountains in the west. This,
as we have shown above, is a mislead-
ing combination of utterly disparate
ideas. In the west. The mountains
mentioned are in the west according to
521 sqq.
fijg pjirase is no real note of
locality. 5, 6. These verses com-
bine features of the Deluge and of
volcanic disturbances. The latter are