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

Sect. IV] Chapter LXXXIX. 1-lB 191
other abysses were opened. 8. Then the water began to run
down into these, till the earth became visible ; but that vessel
settled on the earth, and the darkness retired and light appeared.
9. But that white bull which had become a man came out of
that vessel, and the three bulls with him, and one of those three
was white like that bull, and one o£ them was red as blood, and
one black :
and that white bull departed from them.
LXXXIX. 10-27. From t/ie Death of Noah to the Exodus.
10. And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and
birds, so that there arose different genera ; lions, tigers, wolves,
dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures,
kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white
bull. 11. And they began to bite one another ; but that
white bull which was born amongst them begat a wild ass and
a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied. 12. But
that bull which was born from him begat a black wild boar and
a white sheep ; and the former begat many boars, but that sheep
begat twelve sheep. 13. And when those twelve sheep had
grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses
a^vatsov,
And one
9. Noah and his three sons.
blaok (j8). > a. That
asses', which is ou the whole an apt
designation; cf. Gen. 16^''. The ' white
white bull departsd from them, bull' is Isaac. The wild asses (n,
i.e. Noah died. 10. The neces- ubdiklnox la). ce/A ' the wild ass '. 12.
sities of his subject oblige the author to A blaok wild boar, i. e. Esau. Later
m;ir the naturalness of his symbolism. Jewish hatred thus expresses itself in
His cattle produce all manner of four- associating Edoni with the name of the
footed beasts and birds of prey. Nearly animal it detested most; cf. vv. 42, 43,
all these appear later as the enemies 49, 66. In ver. 72 it is used of theHa-
of Israel; cf. Ezek. 39". Different maritans. A white sheep, i.e. Jacob,
genera. Here 'ahzab means races Israel is specially in the symbolic
not merely of man but of all kinds of language of the O.T. the sheep of God's
animals. Flemming has rightly pointed pasture, Pss. 74^ 79^' 100' Jer. 23\ and
out that hebr here should be written hence there is a peculiar fitness in repre-
hebr, and not Jjebr as Dillmaim takes it. senting the individual who fii-st bore the
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