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Sect, IV] Chapter LXXXIX. 32-42 195
led them "). 40, And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly
place, and a pleasant and glorious land, and I saw till those
sheep were satisfied ;
pleasant land.
and that house stood amongst them in the
LXXXIX. 41-50. From the Time of the Jvrlges till the Bmlding
of the Temple.
41, And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes
blinded, till another sheep arose and led them and brought them
all baels, and their eyes were opened.
42. And the dogs and the
foxes and the wild boars began
to devour those sheep till the
Lord of the sheep raised up
[another sheep] a ram from
which I have emended into kSl'ehflmi*
= ' the two '. 40. Palestine ; cf.
26^. Observe that the epithet 'glorious
is used in the same connexion by Dan.
11".". 41-50. History of the
times from the Judges to the building of
the Temple. Of vv. 42-49 there is
preserved a valuable fragment of the
Greek version. This was published by
Mai from a Vatican MS. in the Pafrum
Nova Bibliothecn, t. ii. I have given
this fragment for purposes of com-
parison with the English version of
the Ethiopic. Amongst other things
the reader can observe how frequently
the Greek article is translated by the
Ethiopic demonstrative. Furthermore,
the i^ij! which occurs between two
verses belonging immediately to each
other, i. e. 46, 47, and the rialv inserted
in ver. 47 prove that the collector of
these Greek excerpts had not the complete
Enoch before him, but drew them
ffora an author who had brought to-
Greek frjigment from Vatican MS ,
published by Mai, Fatium Xova
Bihliotheca, t. ii, deciphered by Gildemeister
in the ZDMG, 1855, pp. 621,
622.
'Ek tov tov 'Ei'wx ^ijBXtov
42. Kai oi Kvvis ifp^avro
KarecrdCfLv to. 7rpo/3ara real ot ves
gether passages from Enoch and anno-
tated them. So Gildemeister, Zeit-
sclirift D.M.G., 1855, pp. 621 sqr|.
41. Periods of religious advance and
declension : work of Samuel. 42.
The dogs and the foxes and the
wild boars. The ' dogs ' are, according
to vv. 46, 47, the Phili.stines. The
' foxes ' are taken by Dillmann to be
the Amalekites, but this interpretation
will not suit ver. 55, where the foxes
are still notable foes of Israel clrse
on the time of the Exile, whereas the
Amalekites practically disappear from
history with the reign of David. 'We
shall most probably be right in taking
the 'foxes' to mean the Ammonites.
From the earliest times down to the
wars of the Maccabees the Ammonites
were always the unrelenting foes of
Israel. This is the view also of tlie
glosser on the Greek Fragment, vv. 42-
49. The ' wild boars ' are the Edom-
ites ;"cf. vv. 12, 43, 49, 66. TjU the
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