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

Sect. IV] Chapters LXXXIV. l—LXXXV. 2 185
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest
everything].
4. And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the
great day of judgement.
5. And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer.
To leave me a posterity on earth.
And not to destroy all the flesh of man.
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which
has aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as
a plant of the eternal seed.
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant,
O Lord.'
LXXXV—XC. The Second Bream-Vision of EnocJi : the Histori/
of the World to the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom.
LXXXV. L And after this I saw another dream, and I will
show the whole dream to thee, my son. 2. And Enoch lifted
turn to the word 'Smmanbarta, which preceding line. 4. Upon the
I have emended as above, we should flesh, of meB : cf. vv. 1, 5, Job 12'".
observe that it does not admit of any Great day of judgement. Most
reasonable rendering in this passage. MSS. read ' day of the great judge-
The word means 'life', 'food', 'con- ment'. See my text, which follows in
dition'. None of these meanings suit part g and in part g; see 45' (note),
the passage. With the above passage This phrase can refer here only to the
we might compare Wisdom 9* 'Wisdom Deluge. In 19' it refers to the final
that sitteth by Thee on Thy throne'. judgement, and so always in 91-104;
Wisdom is represented in both these cf 94' 98i" 991^ 104^. 5. Great
passages as the assessor or TrapeSpos of King. Also in 91'^- 6. A plant
God. The idea is to be traced to Prov. of the eternal seed : see IC (note\
8'° in the LXX version ^/irjv irap' This idea was a very favourite one ; cf.
airS : of. Sir. 1^ piiT avToO (ariv 62* 9??' "> ".
€15 Tuv alava. [For Thou seest LXXXV—XC. The second Dream-
everything]. A dittograph from the vision. In this second vision the