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Ixxxvi The Book <strong>of</strong> Enoch<br />

In <strong>the</strong> vision <strong>of</strong> Perpetua in Acta SS. Perpet. et Felic. (early<br />

in third century) vii, viii (ed. Robinson, pp. 73 sqq.), we have<br />

a remarkable parallel :<br />

vii. After prayer for Dinocrates 1 En. 22. The divisions for <strong>the</strong><br />

she sees <strong>the</strong> place once gloomy souls <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dead.<br />

now bright, and one drawing ^ ' this division has been made<br />

waterfrom <strong>the</strong> pool incessantly. for <strong>the</strong> spirits <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> righteous<br />

... ' Then I understood that he in which <strong>the</strong>re is <strong>the</strong> hright<br />

was translated from punish- spring <strong>of</strong> water '.<br />

ment.'<br />

xii. ' <strong>the</strong> house built <strong>of</strong> light<br />

'<br />

14^-".<br />

Pseudo-Tertullian, Five Books against Marcion, iii.<br />

ch. ii (Migne, ii. 1070). A summary <strong>of</strong> Enoch's life<br />

is given in which occur <strong>the</strong> words :<br />

' Sacrilegum<br />

genus ut fugeret crudele gigantum.'<br />

Commodianus (flor. 250 A. n.), Instructiones (ed. Migne,<br />

P.L. V. 203, 204),<br />

i. 3 :<br />

' (Deus) Visitari voluit terram ab angelis istam (cf Jub.4^''.)<br />

Legitima cuius spreverunt illi dimissi<br />

Tanta fuit forma feminarum, quae flecteret illos.<br />

:<br />

6^' ^.<br />

Ut coinquinati non possent caelo redire, 14^.<br />

Rehelles ex illo contra Deum verba misere. !' 13^.<br />

Altissimus inde sententiam misit in illis 10*^i- 12sq.<br />

De semine quorvim gigantes nati feruntur. 7^.<br />

Ab ipsis in terra artes prolatae fucre,<br />

Et tingere lanas docuerunt et quaeque geruntur, 8^.<br />

Mortales et illi mortuos simulacro ponebant. 19^.<br />

Omnipotens autem, quod essent de semine pravo,<br />

Non censuit illos recipi defunctos e morte.<br />

Unde modo vagi subvertunt corpora multa : i sc-<br />

Maxime quos hodie colitis et deos oratis. jgi<br />

Carmen Apologeticum (1011) :<br />

' Stellae cadunt caeli, iudicantur astra nobiscum.' 18^^~^".<br />

Cyprian (ilor. 250 A.D.), De Hah. Virg. 14 (Hartel, i,<br />

p. 197):<br />

Neque Deus . . . tinguere . . . docuit . . . lapillis aut 8^ &c.<br />

margaritis . . . conspiciatur id desuper quod diabolus<br />

invenit . . . quae omnia peccatores et apostatae angeli<br />

suis artibus prodiderunt,quando ad terrena contagia<br />

devoluti a caelesti vigore recesserunt illi et oculos

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