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

Ixxxvi The Book of Enoch
In the vision of Perpetua in Acta SS. Perpet. et Felic. (early
in third century) vii, viii (ed. Robinson, pp. 73 sqq.), we have
a remarkable parallel :
vii. After prayer for Dinocrates 1 En. 22. The divisions for the
she sees the place once gloomy souls of the dead.
now bright, and one drawing ^ ' this division has been made
waterfrom the pool incessantly. for the spirits of the righteous
... ' Then I understood that he in which there is the hright
was translated from punish- spring of water '.
ment.'
xii. ' the house built of light
'
14^-".
Pseudo-Tertullian, Five Books against Marcion, iii.
ch. ii (Migne, ii. 1070). A summary of Enoch's life
is given in which occur the words :
' Sacrilegum
genus ut fugeret crudele gigantum.'
Commodianus (flor. 250 A. n.), Instructiones (ed. Migne,
P.L. V. 203, 204),
i. 3 :
' (Deus) Visitari voluit terram ab angelis istam (cf Jub.4^''.)
Legitima cuius spreverunt illi dimissi
Tanta fuit forma feminarum, quae flecteret illos.
:
6^' ^.
Ut coinquinati non possent caelo redire, 14^.
Rehelles ex illo contra Deum verba misere. !' 13^.
Altissimus inde sententiam misit in illis 10*^i- 12sq.
De semine quorvim gigantes nati feruntur. 7^.
Ab ipsis in terra artes prolatae fucre,
Et tingere lanas docuerunt et quaeque geruntur, 8^.
Mortales et illi mortuos simulacro ponebant. 19^.
Omnipotens autem, quod essent de semine pravo,
Non censuit illos recipi defunctos e morte.
Unde modo vagi subvertunt corpora multa : i sc-
Maxime quos hodie colitis et deos oratis. jgi
Carmen Apologeticum (1011) :
' Stellae cadunt caeli, iudicantur astra nobiscum.' 18^^~^".
Cyprian (ilor. 250 A.D.), De Hah. Virg. 14 (Hartel, i,
p. 197):
Neque Deus . . . tinguere . . . docuit . . . lapillis aut 8^ &c.
margaritis . . . conspiciatur id desuper quod diabolus
invenit . . . quae omnia peccatores et apostatae angeli
suis artibus prodiderunt,quando ad terrena contagia
devoluti a caelesti vigore recesserunt illi et oculos