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

214 I%e Book of Enoch [Sect. TV
XC. 28-38. T/ie Ne%v Jemsalem, tht -Conversion of the suniving
Gentiles, the Resurrection of the Riglilmus, the Messiah.
28. And I stood up to see till they folded up that «ld house
and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornamfeiiits
of the house were at the same time folded up with it, and they
carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land.
29. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house
greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of
the first which had been folded up : all its pillars were new, and
its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the
old one which He had taken away, and all the sheep were
within it.
30. And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the
beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heaven, falling down
and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and
obeying them in every thing. 31. And thereafter those three
who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand [who
Here the second participle is probably omission of tlie 'and' in f/m, which
a dittograph, and we might translate are the chief representatives of the
' I saw those sheep burning, yea their two readings, may point to the fact
very selves'- Or the original may of 'which He had taken away .
have been mV^ flDSV JUSTIN N1N1 within it ' having originally constituted
' I saw the sheep themselves burning '- a single clause. Simply by reading
28, 29. The removal of the old Jeru- 'abag'a instead of 'abag'6 and prefixing
salem and the setting up of the New 'e to ma'Sl). So Judaism almost universally denied even
practically y, r/qtio, 0-npy ' submerged
'. Dillmann conjectured t6m6
this hope to the G-entiles ; cf.
Jiid. Theol. 384-387, 395.
Weber,
And
= ' folded up '.
occur. 29.
But the forms in np
And {>si) all the
obeying them
every thing.
{mt, |8) > gqu. In
The Ethiopic = ' in
sheep were within it {a-m, acdiltlo every word '. ' Word ' here goes back
id-Ji). m, befhnpvw 'and (>m) the to 13T, which here means 'matter'.
Lord of the sheep was within it '. The 'thing'. 31. Those three who
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