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

Tiifrodudwr/ Ixvii
' These are they who raise tlieir hands against the Most High,
And cast down the stars of heaven,
And tread tliem upon the earth.'
Thus 'judge' = lyii which tlie context shows to be corrupt for
IT'I' ' = '.
cast down
47*^. 'Because the number of the righteous had been offered.'
As the context shows (see my note in loc.) these words mean that the
number of the righteous, i.e. the martyrs, is complete : cf. Rev. 6^"' ".
Now a reads qarSba = ^yyiwe = 31.^, which in Mishnaic Hebrew =
' has been offered '. This meaning is not found in the qal of this
verb in Aramaic.
52'. 'All these things, shall be [denied andj destroyed from the
surface of the earth.' Here there were two alternative Greek render-
ngs of lini^ One was originally in the text, and the other in the
argin, but subsequently both were incorporated into the text. Or
the dittograph was native to the Hebrew, i. e. Wtiy and iTna*.
Schmidt attempts to explain the corruption from an Aramaic basis
by assuming that pSDiD'' stood in the original, and that this
received the two renderings in the text. But xai does not mean
' to destroy '. IMoreover, the Ethiopia word kShSda here, which
means 'to deny', occurs again in 45^ 46'' 48^", in which three
passages Schmidt says it goes back to the Aramaic "|33. Thus his
proposal is satisfactory in no respect.
60^. I have followed u in the text, but the parallelism is in favour
of regarding the text as corrupt in the word ' worship '. This word
is wholly unsatisfactory. It = linriB'i, which may be corrupt (or
innB'2 ' = ' pervert ' or corrupt '). Thus we recover an excellent
parallelism :
' For those who corrupt the righteous law,
And for those who deny the righteous judgement,
And for those who take His name in vain.'
ggioa_ ' Their judgement has been determined upon and shall not
be withheld by me for ever.'
For ' withheld ' the text reads Aoyio-^T/creTat or dpi^ynr^^i^crcTat. The
Ethiopia word can mean either. The former rendering (as in 52^''^
is generally followed here. It is, however, unsatisfactory. The true
reading, as I pointed out in my text, can be recovered by retransla-
tion into Hebrew, oi XoyicrO-^creTai = aSJTl^ nb, corrupt for ^b'n''. NP
= •
shall not be withheld
'. Here Schmidt follows the other i)ossible
meaning of the Ethiopia word apiOfi-qO-qa-erai = NJDJT'— a corruption of
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