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

134 Tlte Booh of Enoch Sect. II
thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur,
and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the
angels who had led astray (mankind) burned beneath that land.
7. And through its valleys proceed streams of fire, where these
angels are punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the
earth.
8. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings
and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the
earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of
the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be
punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits
and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name.
9. And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes
severe, a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for
ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter
an idle word. 10. For the judgement shall come upon them,
because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit
connected with the punishment of the
angels. Burned beneatt that land.
Not merely the immediate neighbour-
hood of the Gehenna valley is here desig-
nated, but, as Dillniann points out, the
adjacent country down to and beyond
the Dead Sea. A subterranean fire was
believed to exist under the Gehenna
valley; cf. 27^ (notel. 8. Those
waters shall serve . . . for the
healing of the body. The hot springs
resulted from the meeting of the water
and fire underground by which the
angels were punished. As an instance
of such a hot spring Dillmann mentions
Kallirrhoe to the east of the Dead Sea,
to which Herod the Gre.'it resorted,
Jos. Aid. xvii. 6. 5 ; Bell. Iml. i.33. 5.
It has been objected that according to
the latter passage these waters were
sweet and not sulphurous. So far as
this objection is valid, it cannot hold
against the hot springs of Machaerus,
Mell. IiuJ. vii. 6. 3, which were bitter,
and in the neiy:hljourh()od of which
there were sulphur mines. Holtzmanii
{Jahrh. f. D. T. xii. 391) refers to the
eruptions of Mount Epomeo in Isohia
in 46 and 35 B.C. (quoted by Schodde),
but, as we have seen above, there is
no need to go to the west for an ex-
planation. In those days. Tliose
of the writer. Healing of the body
{gm, h.r). qtii, $-li.c read ' healing of
the soul and body '. For the
punishment of the spirit, i.e. in the
final judgement. Punished in their
body. In Gehenna they will suffer in
the body as well as in the spirit.
Denied the Lord of Spirits : cf. 38^
(note) 54' (note). See their punishment
daily. The hot springs are a
testimony to the present punishment
of the angels : a testimony likewise to
the punishment that will befall the
kings and the mighty. 9^ The
punishment will work repentance in
the kings, which will be unavailing.
An idle word :
cf. 49* (note).
10. Deny the Spirit of the Lord.