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

Sect. IV] CJmpta- Xa 15-27 213
white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him,
beginning with the first star which led the way, all the stars
whose privy members were like those of horses, and they brought
them all before Him. 23. And He said to that man who
wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said
unto him ; " Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered
the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority slew
more than I commanded them." 23. And behold they were
all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him. 24. And the
judgement was held first over the stars, and they were judged
and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and
they were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of
pillars of fire. 25. And those seventy shepherds were judged
and found guilty, and they were cast into that fiery abyss.
26. And I saw at that time how a like abyss was opened in the
midst of the earth, full of fire, and they brought those blinded
sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty and cast into
this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was to the
right of that house. 27. And I saw those sheep burning
f and their bones burning f.
Ofiyin of
I fie Pnalter, pp. 281, •28-2,
.323-327, 334-337 ; Jewish Encyc. i.
590. Bring {ym, 0). qtu ' come
Before Him. > guj ih Star : see
86-88. AU the stars ... of horses.
So I render as in my edition of 1893,
emending 'Smna z6kft ('61kfl m, /3) into
lakiiSllft with Dillmann. Furthermore
in that edition I rejected as a ditto-
graph the clause added after
'
' horses *
in theMSS., 'and the first star which
went out (g: other MSS. 'fell') first.'
Subsequent translators have accepted
both these suggestions. 22. The
seventy angels who had charge of
Israel are judged along with the fallen
watchers. Said unto him {mtn,
0-hox jb). gq, hox ^ ' said unto them '.
23. This verse reads in g ' and behold
they were all bound before Him '. Cf
88'. 24. An abyss, full of fire
This final place of punishment is not
to be confounded with the preliminary
place of punishment in 18''"" 10^~^
21^"^. It is that which is mentioned
in 10« 18" IV-^" 548. Flaming, and
full of. g reads * flaming witli '.
25. The shepherds are cast into the
same abyss ; cf. 54' (note). 26
The apostates are cast into Gehenna.
In the midst of the earth : cf. 26i.
To the right of that house, i. e. to
the south of Jerusalem. 27. The
apostates were punished in view of
the blessed in Jerusalem ; cf. Is. 66'''
1 En. 4S' (note). This verse seems
corrupt. It is absurd to speak of the
bones burning as distinct from the men
themselves. Hence I suggest that we
have here a late Hebrew idiom. The
verse would in Hebrew run X"1X1
mia HDsvi myn nxin jsvn-riN
.