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

Inlrodudion xlix
simply refer the reader here to p. 65 sq., for some of the grounds
for this conclusion.
37-71 have been handed down in a fragmentary condition^
and many of the problems they suggest can only be tentatively
solved or merely stated.
37-71 consist in the main of three Parables, 38-44 45-57
58-69. These are introduced by 37 and concluded by 70, which
describes Enoch's final translation in terms of that of Elijah.
71, which contains two visions received in his lifetime, belongs
to one of the three Parables. We have already seen that 54'-
55^ 60 65-69^^ are interpolated from the ancient Book of Noah.
Behind the Parables there appear to lie two sources, as Beer
suggested though he did not work out his suggestion. The one
was the ' Son of Man ' source, in which the angelic interpreter
was ' the angel who went with me ' : i. e. 402-'' 46-48'' 52""''
61"-" 622-63 692«-2'' 70-71, and the other 'the Elect One'
sovirce, in which the angelic interpreter was 'the angel of
peace': i.e. 38-39 401-2- s-io 4,p-2, o 45 488-iu 50-521-2- s-u
53-54" 55''-57 61i--' ="" 62i. See pp. 64-65.
Section III. 72-82. Chapter 72 introduces a scientific
treatise. In this treatise the writer attempts to bring the many
utterances in the O.T. regarding physical phenomena into one
system. The sole aim of his book is to give the laws of the
heavenly bodies, and this object he pursues undeviatingly to 79^,
where it is said that his treatise is finished. Through all these
chapters there is not a single ethical reference. The author's
interest is scientific, and, like the author of Jubilees in 6^'^'^^, he
upholds the accuracy of the sun and stars as dividers of time,
7412. y^j^(j ti^ij. order is inflexible and will not change till the
new creation, 72^. But in SO^-^ the interest is ethical and
nothing else, and though it recognizes an order of nature, this
order is more conspicuous in its breach than in its observance.
802-8 appears then to be an addition. Nor, again, can 81 belong
to 72-82. Whereas the blessing of 72-79 82 is for the man
who knows the right reckoning of the years, the blessing of 81*
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