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

Sect. V] Gha-pter CVI. 1-8 265
righteousness. 4. And his
father Lamech was afraid of
him and fled, and came to his
father Methuselah. 5. And
he said unto him :
' I have
begotten a strange son, diverse
from and unlike man, and
resembling the sons of the
God of heaven ; and his nature
is different and he is not
like us, and his eyes are as
the rays of the sun, and his
countenance is glorious. 6.
And it seems to me that he is
not sprung from me but from
the angels, and I fear that in
his days a wonder may be
wrought on the earth. 7. And
now, my father, I am here to
petition thee and implore thee
that thou mayest go to Enoch,
our father, and J earn from him
the truth, for his dwelling-
place is amongst the angels.''
8. And when Methuselah heard
the words of his son, he came
to me to the ends of the earth
for he had heard that I was
recurs, the Ethiopic = (vKoyrjaf and the
Latin * oravit '—evidently a corruption
for ' adoravit ' Thus the Ethiopic =
f^wfioKoffiaaTo (or TrpoaeKvvTjae) (ver. 3)
and ei\6yria( (ver. 11) and the Latin
(v\6yriae (ver. 3) and Trpoae/cvyrjce (vv.
3, 11). From this it is clear that the
Latin and the Ethiopic presuppose
different words in the Greek version
;
et timuit Lamech. 6 . ne non
ex eo natus e«*et nisi nontius
dei. 4, 5. et uenit ad patrem
suum Mathusalem et narrauit
illi orania,.
7. dixit Mathusalem: Ego
autem non possum scire nisi
eamus ad patrem nosirum Enoc.
8. qmini autem uidit Enoc
filium suum Mathusalem ue-
nientem ad se [et] ait. quid eni
quod uenisti ad me nate ?
before them. Lord of Highteous-
ness: of. 22" QO*". 5. And^" ((j^rj).
> Other MSS. Sons of the God of
heaven : cf. 69*. =; also 71' (note). 6.
But from the angels. The Latin gives
a somewhat different idea. ' Nuntius '
= dyyeKos. 7. Latin corrupt. Observe
' eamua ' . Amongst the an gels
i. e.