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

202 The Booh of Enoch [Sect, iv
not they abide by my command wliich I have commanded them.
64. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to
them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual
all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time
and lay it all before me." 65. And I saw till those shepherds
pastured in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy
more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into
the hand of the lions. 66. And the lions and tigers eat and
devoured the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat
along with them ; and they burnt that tower and demolished
that house. 67. And I became exceedingly sorrowful over
that tower because that house of the sheep was demolished, and
afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house.
LXXXIX. 68-71. First Period of the Angelic Jiulers^from the
Dedruciiou of Jerusalem to the lietiirnfrom the Captimty.
68. And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those
sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of
them received in his time a definite number : it was written by
the other in a book how many each one of them destroyed of
them. 69. And each one slew and destroyed many more than
was prescribed ;
and I began to weep and lament on account of
those sheep. 70. And thus in the vision I saw that one who
(,^5). w ^, jQ read 'SmattSwoinil ( + wa'G- under the account given in vv. 55|
raanomft «i). This emendation, sug- 56. 66. The account in general
gebted first in my edition of 1893, has terms of the destruction of the
since been accepted by Beer, Flemniing, northern and southern kingdoms
and Martin. 64. No remonstrance by the lions and tigers, i. e. the
against or interference with the shep- Assyrians and Babylonians. Tke
herds was to be made during their wild boars : see ver. 12 (note),
period of dominion, but all their deeds Cf. Obad. 10-12 Ezek. 2512 SB^'ii-
were to be recorded against the final Is. 68^-* Ps. 137'. That tower
judgement. 65. Into the hand of ... that house ; tee ver. 50 (note).
the lions. The lions appear to be the 68. AWas written in). So already
Assyrians, and the reign of the ehep- Beer had conjectured. 3 ' should
herds to begin contemporaneously with write ', other MSS. ' wrote '. 69.
the final struggles of the northern king- Lament. + ' very much' /3. 70.
dom; or possibly with a somewhat With the sealing of the book which
later date, as the former may come recorded all the doings of these shep-