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

Sect. II] CJmpters LXVII. 1—LXVIII. 2 135
of the Lord. 11 . And
those same waters shall undergo a change
in those days ; for when those angels are punished in these waters,
these water-springs shall change their temperaturCj and when the
angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become
cold, 12. And I heard Michael answering and saying : 'This
judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for
the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.^ 13. Because
these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of
the kings and the lust of their body ; therefore they will not see
and will not believe that those waters will change and become
a fire which burns for ever.
Michael and Hapliael adonied at the Seventy of the Judgement.
LXVIII. 1. And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me
the teaching of all the secrets in the book and in the Parables
which had been given to him, and he put them together for me
in the words of the book of the Parables. 2. And on that day
Michael answered Raphael and said :
' The power of the spirit
transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of
the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels : who
This expression is unique in Bnocli. probably to do with the Satans or chiefs
11. Referred to by Origen C. Celsum of the angels. 'Words of the book.
V. 52. See Introd. pp. Ixiv, Ixxxv. The g 'book of the words '.- 2. The
removal of the angels to another place dialogue between Michael and Raphael
of punishment is followed by a cooling is designed to set forth the severity of
of the waters. In these waters (a). the judgement over the fallen angels,
13-0 ' in those days '. 12. Miohael or rather the Satans. The power of
(a). /3 'the holy Michael'- 13. the spirit. This is a strange expres-
Kings. Text reads ' angels ' = sion. I suggested in 1893 that it was
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