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

xciv TJie Booh of Enoch
aa-Tpa iXOelv Kar i/xov fj ttjv will inquire as to your deeds
creX-^vrjv, orav ixeWys Kpivcu. in heaven, from the sun and
Tratrav ttjv olKov/iivrjv, on iv vvktI from the moon and from the
iirpaTTov ras KaKas ft.ov /SouAas- stars in reference to your sins
Kivrjaei's
lj.y] Tov tjXiov . .
.. ouScv . . . And now give presents
yap dpov to the rain that it be not
Svvajxai croL irapacr^iiv. withheld, &C,'
The Apocalypse of Paul has a similar but not identical idea.
4 sqq. (Tisch., Apocal. Apocr., lOO^"'!^.
p. 36).
The sun, and also the moon and
the stars, come to the Lord and
ask leave to punish men for
their sins. As the sun sets
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TOV Oebv TTpocTKvVTJa-aL airZ, koI
Trpocrdyovaiv to. tpya. tS>v avBpw-
iruiv CKacTTOv o rt eirpa^iv, &C.
In the Book of Adam and Eve we have references to 1 Enoch as
well as to 2 Enoch, and a definite rejection of its teaching.
2^2 (ed. Blalan, 1882).
' Enoch to whom many wonders
happened and who also wrote
a celebrated book '.
3* ' Certain wise men of old 6-10.
wrote concerning them (the
giants) and say in their books,
that angels came down from
heaven and mingled with the
daughters of Cain, who bare
unto them these giants. But
those err in what they say. . . .
They were children of Seth '.
2" ' Jared continued to teach 6® ' who descended in the days
his children eighty years ; but of Jared .
after that they began to go
down from the Holy Mountain
. . . and to mix with the
children of Cain '. Genun had