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

Sect. IV] Chapter LXXXIX. 49-59 199
and caused it to dwell there. 53. And many other sheep He
sent to those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them.
54. And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of
the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes
were blinded ; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought
much slaughter amongst them in their herds until those sheep
invited that slaughter and betrayed His place. 55. And He
gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves
and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild
beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep.
56. And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower
and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour
them, into the hand of all the wild beasts, 57. And I began
to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the
sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they
were devoured by all the wild beasts, 58. But He remained
unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were
devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured
in the hand of all the beasts. 59. And He called seventy
Prom the sheep (gin). Other MSS. the lious alone are mentioned, the Baby-
' from the hands of the sheep '. 53, loniana are meant. The ' wolves ' are the
54. The fruitless activity of the pro- Egyptians; of. ver. 13. The 'hyenas',
phets, and the complete apoatasy of the Martin suggests, are the Syrians, but
nation owing to their abandonment of they are symbolized by the ' ravens ' in
the Temple. 54. Forsook the 90'> ' '*
; they may be the Ethiopians,
house , . . and His tower. Judah and 56. This verse describes how God
Benjamin did not foraake J urusalem and gradually withdrew from the degraded
the Temple, but apparently our author Theocracy and gave Israel defenceless
treats the Twelve Tribes in their into the hands of its enemies. To...
solidarity. Of the Lord. + 'of the devour. The prophets use the same
sheep ' ;3. Invited that slaughter figure and phraseology in regard to the
and betrayed His place, i. c called destruction of Israel by the heathen ;
in heathen nations to help them and cf. Jer. 12' Is. 56° Ezek. 34^. *. Bar-
so betrayed Jerusalem. Thus Ahaz nabas 16^ refers to this verse : \eyei
hired Tiglath-pilezer, king of Assyria, yap tj ypaipri- koI iarai i-n iaxa-rav Tuiv
to help him against Rezin, king of ^fiepuiy /cai TrapaSajan Kvpios ra irpo^aTa
Syria, 2 Kings 16' "''' 55. The t^s yo^^s Kai Trjf jjtavSpav nai rov nvpyov
final fortunes of the two kingdoms airaiv els KOTaipSopdv. 57. Lord
and the names of their oppressors. of the sheep, gmq read
' Lord of
Lions and tigers, i. e. the Assyrians the lions '. The wild beasts. > g.
and Babylonians. In vv. 56,65 (?), where 59. Seventy (/3). o 'seven'. The