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

Sect. Ill] Chapters LXXXI. 7—LXXXII. 6 175
2. I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children^
[And thy children that shall be to thee],
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.
3. And those who understand it shall not sleep.
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this
wisdom.
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good
food.
4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk
in the way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners, in the
reckoning of all their days in which the sun traverses the heaven,
entering into and departing from the portals for thirty days with
the heads of thousands of the order of the stars, together with
the four which are intercalated which divide the four portions of
the year, which lead them and enter with them four days.
5. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not reckon them in the
whole reckoning of the year : yea, men shall be at fault, and not
recognize them accurately. 6. For they belong to the reckon-
ing of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in
the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and
one in the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and
sixty-four days.
mandaverit quam ut notitiain eorum intercalary days iatroduced by four
posteria suis traderit' 2. Wis- leaders: of. ver. 11, 75'> ^. Blessed
dom. The surpassing wisdom con- are all those {t, 0-y). > cfu, y. mq
veyed in these revelations is a frequent ' blessed ( + ' moreover ' q) are all
theme with the Enoch writers ; cf. 37* ( + ' the righteous ' m). Heads of
92' 93'*~". To tliee and to thy thousands, i. e. the chiliarchs which
children (mjw, /3): cf.Ps. TS""'. breads lead these days. Divide (qt, $-no Ji).
'to thy son': gr corrupt. As we must Cf. 82". gmii, no jb 'are divided',
infer from these words that Lamech ia 5. Cf. 75^. "Whole reckoning of the
already born, the writer has followed year. So with Beer I correct bahasaba
the Samaritan or Massoretic reckon- kuglltl'alam (= 'in the reckoning of the
ing : the former would allow of Noah whole world ') into bakuglW haaSba
being present. [And thy children 'amat. 6. On the four intercalary
... to thee.] Bracketed as an inter- days, and the portals to which they
polation. 3. Better than good belong, see 75. The year is com-
food :
cf. Ps. 19'". 4. The four plated in three hundred, &e. (/3).
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