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

Sect. II] Clmpters LXX. i^LXXI. 8 143
2. And I saw two streams of fire^
And the light o£ that fire shone lilie hyacinth,
And I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.
3. And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by
my right hand.
And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,
And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
4. And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,
And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries.
Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.
5. And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens.
And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals.
And between those crystals tongues of living fire.
6. And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire.
And on its four sides were streams full of living fire,
And they girt that house.
7. And round about were Seraphin, Cherubin, and Ophannin :
And these are they who sleep not
And guard the throne of His glory.
8. And I saw angels who could not be counted,
A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand,
Encircling that house,
their raiment] . A
duplicate rendering. requires a tristicli. 4. This parallel
treatment of ethical and natural pheuo-
2. Streams of fire : of. 14^' Dan. 7^°
;
also ver. 6 of this chapter. These mena reminds us of the appearance
streams really proceed from beneath of such passages as il*~' 43-44 in
the throne. 3. And lie showed the midst of contexts of a wholly
me all (>j8) the secrets of righteous- ethical character. 5-17. The Second
ness. All the MSS. except u insert Vision. 5. He translated my
before this line 'And he showed me spirit (a). The text does not state
all (> /3) the secrets of mercy '. These who translated Enoch. /3 reads ' a spirit
two lines = translated him '- There. MSS. add
Hal iSit^i iioi TtavTa Tci fivarripia t^s ' in the midst of that light ' as an
iXirjiioaivrii explanatory gloss on
' there '. 5, 6.
Kol eSei^e ijloi navra ra nvarfiftia t^s Cf. 14'-". 6. The girdle (a-j).
hiKtuoavvr)^. 3, /9 ' a girdle ' 7. Cherubin, Sera-
These are alternative renderings of phin, and Ophannin : cf. Gl'"" "^
p-\-Sr[ niD
^"2 *3Nnni. The context 39" iO\ And'" (a). > /3. 8. A