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

Sect. L] Chapters X VII. 5 — X VIII. 1 2. 89
4. And I saw the winds which turn the heaven, which bring
the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting*.
5. And I saw the winds on the earth, which carry the clouds
and I saw the paths of the angels : I saw at the end of the
earth the firmament of the heaven above. 6. And I pro-
ceeded towards the south, and there it burns day and night,
where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three
towards the east, and three towards the south : 7. and
indeed of those towards the east, one was of coloured stone,
and one of pearls, and one of antimony, and those towards the
south of red stone. 8. But the middle one reached to
heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit
of the throne was of sapphire. 9. And I saw a flaming
fire, which was in all the mountains. 10. And I saw there
a place, over against the great earth : there the heavens were
gathered together. 11. And I saw a deep abyss, with
pillars of heavenly fire and among them I saw pillars of
heavenly fire fall which were in number beyond count alike
towards the height and towards the depth. 1 2. And over
XVIII. 4. Instead of jPOCte AhQQ, G has the strange reading
?0Oh 40A: Wl-fl. 10. Heavens. So GM A"7JPt and the
Giz. Gk. Later MSS. *1$!*t ' waters.' 1 1. I saw a deep abyss.
So GM. Din. and FHKLNO add 'in the earth.' But this
abyss is beyond the earth. The Giz. Gk. supports G M.
xxvi. 11. 4. Turn the heaven, and three in the South and the seventh
&c: cf. lxxii. 5;
lxxiii. 2. 5. at their point of contact. The descrip-
Carry the clouds. An explanation tion here varies somewhat from that
of the difficulties suggested in Job in xxiv. 1-3. These mountains are
xxxvi. 29; xxxvii. 16. At the end mentioned in the Book of Jubilees viii.
of the earth the firmament, &c. 8. Of sapphire : cf. Ezek. i. 26.
The ends of the firmament of heaven 10. The same idea as in xviii. 5 ;
rest on the ends of the earth: cf. xxxiii. 2. 11. This may be the final
xxx iii. 2 ; the vault of heaven is sup- place of punishment for the fallen
ported by the winds, xviii. 2, 3. angels. If so, cf. x. 6, 13; xix; xxi.
6-9. This is another version of what 7-10 ; xc. 24. Of heavenly fire : cf.
is recounted in xxiv. 1-3. These Gen. xix. 24; Ps. xi. 6; Ezek. xxxviii.
seven mountains lie three in the East 22. 12-16. This place of punish-