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

Introduction xciii
loquerer cum eo ex arbore co- knowledge '. « ^ (,i,y father old
gnitionis et ex arbore vitae in . . ., &c.'
TrapaSetcra) Adami. (Translated
from the Coptic.)
(p. 25) ' /ino-TJ/pta — quae por- 7^ 8'^.
tarant desuper ayyeXoL pecca-
tores, quorum {ixv^TT-qpCmv) sunt
jxayia '
In the Gnostic Acts of Thomas 1 Enoch may be referred to in
the words of the Dragon :
ch, xxxii (Tisch. Acta Aposto-
lorutn Apocrypha, p. 218) :
tyu) et/it 6 Tovs ayyiX.ovi avu)6ev 6^ 'they descended, &c. ;
' 86^
Kara) pti/fas kol Iv Tah i-mOvixiais ' many stars descend and cast
Twv yvvaiKuiv auTous KaTaSrja-a's, themselves down from heaven,
iva yr/ycvcts TratScs ii avTwv &C.'
ye'vMVTat, &c. T^> *, &c., ' giants '.
The Acts of ' the TJisputation of Archelaiis with Manes ' (written
perhaps at the beginning of the fourth century).
ch. xxxii (Routh, Reliquiae, iv,
p. 211):
'Angelorum quidam, mandate Dei 86^ 'a star fell from heaven '-
non subditi, voluntati eius ^ ' many
stars descend and
restiterunt, et aliquis quidem cast themselves down from
de caelo, tanquam fulgur ignis, heaven '. 7^ ' they began to
cecidit super terram, alii vero go in unto them '. 15^ 19P-''^'^.
infelicitate hominum filiabus
admixti, a dracone afflicti,
ignis aeterni poenam suscipere
meruerunt '.
The Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea (date uncertain) has an
unexpected parallel to 1 Enoch.
ill. 3 (Tisch. Evangelia Apo-
crypha, 2nd ed., Lipsiae, 1876,
p. 465) :
The dying thief ad-
dresses Christ in the following
words
li.r) iv ii€T(ia-a (Tov iroirjo-eLi to. 1003°'1^ 'from the angels He