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

Pect.iii] Chapters LXXIX. B—LXXX. 5 171
Perversiou of Nature and tlie heavenly Bodies owing to the Hhi
of Men.
2. And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter,
And shall not appear in their time :
And the rain shall be kept back
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3. And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward.
And shall not grow in their time
And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld iu their time.
4. And the moon shall alter her order.
And not appear at her time.
5. [And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey
in the evening f on the extremity of the great chariot
inf the west]
And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order
of light.
Cf. Jer. 38 h"^^. Shall alter (|8).
' Alter ' is here intransitive, but a-ii
give the transitive tense and t supplies
'its ways'. Shall withhold (m, |S).
gritn ' shall stand still ' (by merely the
change of a vowel point). 4. Cf
for similar ideas Joel 2^° Amos 8'
4 Ezra 5*. 5. The first two lines
of this verse are very corrupt and have
been dislocated from their proper con-
text in this chapter. By their removal
verses 4-5 form a tristich relating to
the moon. These corrupt clauses are
probably fragments of a tristich relat-
ing to the sun. The Ethiopic reads :
' And in those days the heaven {mq, :
gtu ' in the heaven ') shall be seen,
and hunger shall come on the extremity
of the great chariot to {a-q : g,