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

138 The Book of Enoch [Sect, ii
8. And the fourth was named Penemue :
he taught the children
of mea the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them all the
secrets of their wisdom. 9. And he instructed mankind in
writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from
eternity to eternity and until this day. 10. For men were not
created for such a purpose, to give confirmation to their good
faith with pen and ink. 11. For men were created exactly
like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and
righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have
taken hold of them, but through this their knowledge they
are perishing, and through this power fit is consuming mef-
12. And the fifth was named Kasdeja : this is he who showed
the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and
demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it
may pass awaj', and [the smitings of the soul] the bites of the
serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat,
the son of the serpent named Taba'et. 13. And this is the
task of Kasbeel, the chief of the oath which he showed to
the holy ones when he dwelt high above in glory, and its name
8. Penemfle. Perhaps, as Halevy q ' pure and holy ', P ' righteous and
suggests, from iCJD, 'the inside'. pure'. fit is consuming mef.
This Satan taught the secret things of Perhaps we should read ' they are
wisdom. 9, 10. Though the in- being consumed'. 12. Cf. Kosen-
vention of the art of writing is ascribed miiller's Scholia on Ps. 91^'*, which,
to an evil spirit, the writer does not according to ancient Jewish interpretaseem
to condemn it save in so far as it tion, treated of demonic dangers. The
is used as a safeguard against the bad serpent named Taba'et. I know
faith of men. 11. Men were created nothing .about this name. Schmidt
exactly like the angels. Man was (u/^. cY. p. 341) rewrites the last clause
originally righteous and immortal ; cf. of 69'^ and the whole of 69'^. But it
Book of Wisdom, l"i '* 2°'> -'. This is wholly hypothetical and unlikely.
is also the doctrine of the Talnmd, Till the Greek version or the Aramaic
Weber, Jiid. Theol, 215, 216, 222, 248. original is found the passage seems
Man lost his uprightness and imrnor- beyond restoration. Schmidt finds that
tality through the envy of the devil, the name of the sixth Satan is Taba'St
Wisdom 2^*, through the evil knowledge and that of the seventh Hakael, frag-
introduced by the Satans or angels, ments of the latter surviving in Blqa
1 Enoch 69'1, through his own evil and Akae. 13. Cf. 41^ I do not
act, 98''. Pure and righteous (a-(/). pretend to interpret this and many of