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

166 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. Ill
4. I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains
which are on the earth :
and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and
days, seasons, and years pass away. 5. I saw seven rivers on
the earth larger than all the rivers : one of them coming from
the fwestf pours its waters into the Great Sea. 6. And
these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters
into the Erythraean Sea in the east. 7. And the remaining
four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, (two
of them to) the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and
discharge themselves there [and some say :
into
the desert].
8. Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland :
two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.
Tke Sun and 31oon : the JFaxhig and JFaning of the Moon.
LXXVIII. 1. And the names of the sun are the following:
the first Orjares, and the second Tomas. 2. And the moon
and generally in Jewish writers ; cf.
188 -W^ 321 gill 7237 9116 9310. Seven
high mountains. These appear to
have nothing to do with those of 18^
24' 32', though originally they are
derived from the same source. Pass.
+ 'and go' q,fi. 5. Seven (18).
> a. One of them coming from
the fwestf. This must be the Nile,
as BiUniaun takes it, but the description
* from the west ' cannot be right. Hence
I take 'arab (= west) to be a trans-
literation of n3"iy, which here means
simply ' desert ' or ' steppe ', and render
' coming from the desert '. Here Ara-
maic fails to explain the difficulty.
The Great Sea, i. e. the Mediterranean
; cf. Num. 34". '. 6. The
Euphrates and Tiijris. The Ery-
thraean Sea. A general name for
the Arabian, Persian, and Indian seas.
7. The remaining four, i. e. the
Indus, Ganges, Oxus, and Jaxartes
(Dillmann). (Two of them to.) These
words must be supplied. [And some
say : into the desert.] This is mani-
festly a gloss. Such a second view is
impossible in a vision. 8. Two in
the mainland and five in the Great
Sea (bcdfiloy^ajb). So also aehkn
save that they omit ' in the mainland
after ' two '. a-m read ' seven, and
two in the Red Sea ' : m ' two in the
mainland and five in the Red Sea '.
The text is wholly uncertain. Perhaps
we might compare Jub. S^'^ where ' five
great islands' are referred to. The
sevenfold division of the earth is of
Babylonian origin. See A'. A. T} 618.
From this source is developed the idea
in 4 Ezra 6^' where the land is said to
be fths of the earth and the sea ^-th,
the seven high mountains in our text,
77^, the seven streams, 77^ and the
seven islands, 77*.
LXXVIII, LXXIX. The rela-
tions of the sun and moon are again
described, as well as the waxing and
the waning of the moon. LXXVIII. 1.
And 1° (a-g, eU). > q, 13-ehl. Halevy
points out that the two names of the
sun given here correspond to the two
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