The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

80 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. I.
my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be
granted throughout all the days of eternity, and that judg-
ment has been finally passed upon you, and no indulgence will
be granted to you. 5. And from henceforth you will
never again ascend into heaven to all eternity, and on the
earth the decree hath gone forth, they shall bind you for all
the days of eternity. 6. But previously you will see the
destruction of your beloved sons and you will not have them
in your keeping, but they will fall before you by the sword.
7, Your petition on their behalf will not be granted, nor that
on your own : likewise despite your tears and prayers you will
receive nothing whatever contained in the writing which
I have written/ 8. And the vision appeared to me thus ;
behold in the vision clouds invited me and a mist invited me :
the course of the stars and the lightnings drove and im-
pelled me, and the winds in the vision gave me wings and
drove me. 9. And they lifted me up into heaven and I
came till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals
and surrounded by a fiery flame :
and it began to affright me.
10. And I went into the fiery flame and drew nigh to a
indulgence will be granted unto you/ 7. You will re-
ceive nothing whatever. The Ethiopic, which is a literal
rendering of the Giz. Gk. fifj \a\ovvres nav prjfx.a, gives no in-
telligible sense. Hence I have supposed XaKovvres to be a corruption
of Xaxovres, and so translated. But the corruption may
have originated in the Hebrew through the confusion of 81p and
mp. 8. Instead of fROQl, GM read ,P8iJ*i = ' incited.'
mand which Enoch administered to est et conservatur usque nunc testis
the watchers. 5. Cf. xiii. 5 ; also judicii Dei, quoniam angeli quidam
the Apology of Athenagoras : ovtoi 01 transgressi deciderunt in terram in
6ryyeAoi oi iKTreffSvres twv ovpavwv . . judicium. 8. Clouds invited
ovkcti eb tci virepovpdvia virepKvtyai me. This is a peculiar expression
dvvdfievoi. 6. Cf. x. 9. 7- See and may be due to an error. We
Crit. Note. Irenaeus IV. xvi. 2. should expect some such idea as is
(Stieren's ed.) refers to this passage found in Ps. xviii. 10, 11; civ. 3.
Enoch . . . cum esset homo, legatione 0-13. Enoch is carried up into heaven
ad angelos fungebatur et translatus and passes within the outer wall that