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

Sect. IV] Chapter LXXXIX. 64-74 203
wrote how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those
shepherds^ day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed
actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep— (even) everything
that they had done, and all that each one of them had
made away with, and all that they bad given over to destruction.
71. And the book was read before the Lord of the sheep, and He
took the book from his hand and read it and sealed it and laid
it down.
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LXXXIX. 72—77. Second I'urlod—from tJic iime of Cijrus to that
of Alexander the Great.
72. And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for
twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned back and
came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down
of that house ; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they
were not able. 73. And they began again to build as before,
and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower
and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all
the bread on it was polluted and not pure. 74. And as touching
herds it is implied that the first period the interval that separates these from
has come to a close. 71. From the former. The account of the at-
his hand (i/mt). |8 ' in His hand '. tempt of the Samaritans to prevent
72. At the close of the description of the rebuilding of the temple is as true
this period, the writer defines its of the latter as the former, Ezra 4-5
duration exactly as twelve hours long, Neh. 4-6. In later times one of the
just as at the close of the third period two was at times mentioned without
described in gO''-* he defines its dura- the other, Sir. iO'^^-^^ 2 Mace. 2".
tion in 90^. Further, we are to observe Biichler is of opiuion that the three
that the term ' hour ' is to be taken in sheep here represent not individuals but
the same sense as ' time ' in 90^, since the three tribes, Levi, Judah, and Ben-
in the fifty-eight times there mentioned, jamin. He compares T. Joseph 19'.
the twelve hours are treated exactly as 73. Named. + ' as before ' q. The
' times '. In fact we may feel certain bread . . . was polluted, i. e. the ofierthat
the variation of expression ' hour ings were unclean ; cf. Mai. 1', ' Ye
and ' time ' originated with the Ethiopia offer polluted bread upon mine altar.'
translator as renderings of the same These words furnish no ground for
word apa. Three of those sheep. supposing an Essene author of the
Two of these were Zerubbabel and Dream-visions : they are not stronger
Joshua. If the text be correct, I see than Mai. 1, 2, and would only ex-
no objection to finding the third in press the ordinary judgement of an
Ezra or Nehemiah, notwithstanding old-fashioned I'harisee such as the
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