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

184 The Booh of Enoch [Sect, iv
LXXXIV. 1. And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and
blessed the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of
my mouthj and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for
the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak there-
with, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that
they should speak therewith :
2. ' Blessed be Thou, Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord of the whole creation of the heaven.
King of kings and God of the whole world.
And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever
and ever.
And throughout all generations Thy dominion :
And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3. For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne,
Nor turns away from Thy presence.
myself included, wrongly rendered the hard for Thee (= ahwaTqim irapa aol
words. Hence I assume here a wrong oiSiv). Tliis clause is drawn from Jer.
punctuation of the Hebrew on the part 321'. 27 -^y^ ^3 TDD NPS'' N? Here
of the Greek translator. Text = Kat ,, t -^-v a a o-
,
iv^Hr, Kcd dviruAe = Hip. ^Vl\
the hX-X. render ov
• ^
jxtj anoKpyprj anu
which
^^5 ^^j^v. Cf. Gen. 18". After this
should have been read as niri 'I^V-V clause the text adds a dittograph =
Then we should have
' so that he /cai ouSe^ii'a or earlier /cai oiSev.
ascended and rose ', &c. Departs not (g). Other MSS. ' departs
LXXXIV. 1. UnocWs Frayer for not from Thee '. Prom the place of
his Posterity. The Holy and Great Thy throne, nor turns away. The
One: see 1' note. Tongue of flesh
:
text = 'nor turns away {gqm corrupt
see 14'. Children of the flesh of here) from her life ( > qu), ( + from
men (gmt, ahcfAiknx). u, delopy ^a Ji mq) Thy throne and '- By the simple
'children of men'; 2 'children of men of transposition of the verb 'nor turns
flesh'. 2. Of. g^'M. Lord of the away' the parallelism of the text is
whole creation of the heaven. Here restored. Further 'gmmanbarta ( =
only ; cf. 82'', also 58* (note). King ' from her life ') has been emended into
of kings. Also in 9*. God of the 'gmmSnbarS,ta (= 'from the place').
whole world. Here only; see note on 1'. Thus the phrase 'from the place of
All the heavens are Thy throne, &c. Thy throne' = Airi toC T6irov rod 9p6vov
From Is. 66'. 3. Nothing is too aod = 'TJNDp )i3EiO Ps. 89". To re-