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

270 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. V
and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits
shall be slain, and they shall cry and make lamentation in
a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they
burn ; for there is no earth there. 4. And I saw there some-
thing like an invisible cloud ;
for by reason of its depth I could
not f look overf , and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and
things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro.
5. And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and
said unto him :
' What is this shining thing ? for it is not
a heaven but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of
weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.^ 6.
' And he said unto me : This place which thou seest—here are
cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who
work wickedness, and of those who pervert every thing that the
Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets— (even)
the things that shall be. 7. For some of them are written
and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may
These contain the roll of the mem-
bers of the kingdom ; cf. 103''' '.
Spirits shall be slain : cf. 22" 99"
(note). Though the extreme penalty
of ain, it does not imply annihilation,
for the victims of it ' cry and make
lamentation'. In a place, &c. This
chaotic flaming hell beyond the limits
of the earth is the place of punishment
of the angels in 18"-ib 21^-'.
Chaotic. Eth. = a6paro^, which is the
LXX rendering of infl in Gen. I''.
The rendering of 1113 (Gen. I'') is found
tv/ice in 21^» ^, i. e. aKaratriavaaTos,
In the fire shall they bum = ba'SsSt
jgnaddfl. So I emend ba'esat nadd(^
(giQinqt, ^-ahcx) = ' in the fire they have
bui-nt'. ahcx emend into ba'Ssat jSnadSdfl
'in fire they shall burn'- But
21' ba'gsat . . . jgnaddft supports my
emendation. 4. This hell and its
inhabitants further described, in terms
borrowed from 18'' 2 1^. fLook overf.
We might emend la'gla ( = ' over ') into
18'glnahli and render ' behold its height
or emend both words into behll hasgro
'tell its circuit' (or 'size'). But the
text is uncertain. Of fire (fjigu).
Other MSS. ' of its fire '. 5. One
of the holy angels, &c. This phrase
is borrowed from 1-36; cf 27'. Voice,
&c. : cf. 18^'. 'Weeping and crying
(a). (x> 0. 6. This hell which is
outside the earth is the final place of
punishment of sinners and blasphemers
and perverters of God's revelation and
action through the prophets. In verses
3-6 the writer of this chapter has con-
founded places, i. e. Gehenna and the
hell of the disobedient stars, that are
most carefully distinguished in 1-36,
and yet borrowed the phraseology of
that section. Blasphemers : cf. 91'.
Spoken {mtu, $). g^gq ' done'. The
prophets. Here only mentioned expressly
in Enoch. 7. Written
and inscribed. This refers to the
heavenly tablet ; cf. 47*. These records
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