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

248 The Booh of Enoch [Sect, v
The Sinners destroy each other: Judgement of thefallen Angels:
the Safety of the Righteous: further Woesfor the Sinners.
C. 1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with
their sons shall be smitten.
And brothers one with another shall fall in death
Till the streams flow with their blood.
2. For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons
and his sons' sons^
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured
brother
:
Prom dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
3. And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of
sinners J
And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
4. In those days the angels shall descend into the secret
places
And gather together into one place all those who brought
down sin,
C. 1. The thought in 99' is here ex- deed. On the internecine strife that
panded. Brothers one with another was to initiate the Isingdom, of. 56'
shall fall O). a ' brothers one with 99^ « Zech. li" Ezck. 38^1 Hagg. 2^2
another and shall fall '. Suggested by Mio. 7" ' A
man's enemies are the men
Ezek. 38''^ ' Every man's sword shall be of his own house '. In N. T. of. Mt.
against his brother'; Hagg. 222. cf.se- lO^i. s*. 35 i^io Mk. I312 Luke 21i».
coud line of the next stanza. Streams 3. Up to the breast. This phraseology
flow with their blood : of. Is. 34'> ' reappears later in Talmudio writings ;
Ps. 581°. 2. His sons' sons of. Midi-ash Ech. Rahb. ii ' Nor shall
(/3). g'mi'his son's son', ji/g corrupt. they cease slaying till the horse is sub-
+ ' in compassion ' t, 0. The sinner merged in blood to the month '. Cf.
' {f> ^)- .9ii?'"2 ^s for the sinner, he '. Jer. Taanith 69^; of. Schiirer, i. 695
Prom his honoured brother. It is very note; Lightfoot, Opera, ii. 127; Rev.
probable that we have here a reference Ii'". To its height {m, 0). g^ffq 'to
to the murder of Antigonus by his the day of its (>i5r) height ' (through a
brother Aristobulus I. Josephus (Ant. dittograph), t ' for it shall be filled to
xiii. 11. 1, 2) tells us that Aristobulus its height'. 4. The angels shall
specially loved Antigonus, but moved descend . . . and gather. So in Matt,
by calumnies put him to death, and 13"> "> *". Brought down sin
afterward died of remorse for this (a-