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

Sect. IV] aiapters LXXXVI. i-LXXXVIII. 3 189
lower. 4. And one said unto me " :
Remain here till thou
seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses,
and the stars and the oxen, and all of them."
TAe Punishment of the Fallen Angeh hy the Archangels.
LXXXVIII. 1. And I saw one of those four who had come
forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the
heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss
now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.
2. And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants
and camels and asses :
then they began to smite each other, and
the whole earth quaked because of them. 3. And as I \A-as
beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth
stoned (them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great
stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound
them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the
earth.
' it was built all the hills' (sic). 4.
One said (o-g, cefh'ik). 7, fi-cefhik
' they said '. Oxen and all of them
(a-»)' "1 ' aud all the oxen '.
LXXXVIII—LXXXIX. 1. There
is a very close connexion between this
Section and chapter 10'"'^. Thus 88^,
which treats of Azazel, refers to 10*"',
88! (of Gabriel) refers to lO^-io, 88'
(of Michael) refers to 10"-'^ and 89^
, vof Uriel) refers to 10i-». Thus the
text here clearly presujjposes chapter
10, but not quite in its present form,
as Lawlor, Journal Fhilol., 1897, pp.
187-189 supposes. For only one
leader is here referred to, i. e. Azazel
86' 88', whereas in 10" a second
leader is associated with Shemjaza.
1. It is Baphael who here casts Azazel
into the desert named Beth Chaduda.
See 10*"*. 2. Gabi-iel deals here
with the giant offspring of the angels
and the women. Cf. lO"""'. And
camels (i;,;8), > a-Z. 3. Michael
deals with the fallen angels. There is
no mention here of any leader such at
Shemjaza, whom we find specially
named in 10". Cf. lO'^"". -who
had oome forth stoned (them) from
heaven. The text seems corrupt.
Either emend wagara ( = * stoned ')
into warada ( = ' descended ') and read
' who had come forth descended from
heaven ', or transpose ' from heaven
before ' stoned ' ; then we have ' who
had come forth from heaven (cf. 87^)
stoned '. I should add here that after
wagara n adds saifa = ' sword '- The
phrase would then be rendered * hurled
a sword '. As regards the number of
the verbs ' gathered ' and ' took ' tbe
MSS. vary. 3 reads the singular in
each case, supported in the former by
tu and in the latter by ml.
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