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

Sect. IV] Chapter XC. 13-14 211
and fthey cried to the ravens f
that they should break the horn
of that ranij and they battled
and fought with it, and it
battled with them and cried
that its help might come.
there came with them all the
sheep of the field, yea, they
all came together, and helped
each other to break that horn
of the ram.
19. And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and
the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to slay
them, and all the beasts and the birds of the heaven fled before
their face.
14. And I saw till that man,
who wrote down the names of
the shepherds [and] carried up
into the presence of the Lord
of the sheep [came and helped
it and showed it everything
he had come down for the help
of that rain].
above that the evidence points to these
doublets having already existed in the
Hebrew. It is uncertain whether this
clause was added in the Hebrew or in
the Greek. Its reference, however, is
clear. The words speak of the help
given by Michael to Judas Maccabaeus.
According to 2 Maco. 11^ Judas and all
the people prayed to God to send an
angel to help them, and in 11* it is
I'eeounted that ' there appeared at
their head one on horseback in white
apparel brandishing weapons of gold ',
i. e. Michael, the angelic patron of
Israel, who is also the heavenly scribe
in these chapters. In ver. 15 the
words ' into His shadow ' can hardly
be original. The corresponding phrase
in ver. IS '
from among the sheep
: '
t \i
17. And I saw that man,
who wrote the book according
to the command of the Lord,
till he opened that book con-
cerning the destruction which
those twelve last shepherds had
wrought, and showed that they
had destroyed much more than
their predecessors, before the
Lord of the sheep.
seems | right. The former = vS3
which may be a corruption
= ' from among the sheep '
of |XSD
In ver.
18 the words 'staff' and 'smote the
earth' recall Num. 20^^, while the
phrase ' the earth clave asunder ' recalls
Num. 1631-33. The text = pKH y)
D3ni pxn ivb'1
. . . y-^i^n xpani
Dn'?y. We should observe that the
Ethiopio for 'the earth covered them',
i. c. kadanat dlbehomii, is not Ethiopic,
but a literal reproduction of iKdhvtpef
Itt' avTovSj which in turn is not Greek,
but a literal reproduction of the
Hebrew Dn'hv D3m (Num. IB^S).
13. And eagles, ' g eagles '. 14.
Helped it. + ' and saved it '