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

92 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. I.
the holy angels, who takes vengeance on the world and on the
luminaries. 5. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he
that is set over the best part of mankind, over the people.
6. Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits
of the children of men, whose spirits have sinned. 7.
Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the
serpents and the Cherubin.
XXI. 1. And I went round to the place of chaos (lit. f where
nothing was made'). 2. And I saw there something
horrible, I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded
earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3. And here I
saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great
mountains and flaming as with fire. 4. On this occasion I
said { For what sin are they bound, and on what account have
they been cast in hither V 5. Then spake Uriel, one of the
holy angels, who was with me and was chief over them, and
quaking.' The Greek is right ; cf. xxi ; xxvii. 2. 6. See
Appendix. 7. Paradise and the serpents. So G and the Giz.
Gk. Din. inverts this order. The serpents may be Seraphim.
See Appendix.
XXI. 2. I saw neither a heaven above. So G CK\h\ flJltrt' 7 ??;
ADA: and the Giz. Gk. eapaKa ovre ovpavbv endua. Din. gives ' no
high heaven.' A place chaotic. So G tw*ili HWs &&&• but
that it wrongly omits the negative : cf. the Giz. Gk. tottov amTa-
aKcvaarov. Later MSS. add ' empty ' after ' place ' against G and
the Giz. Gk. 5. And was chief over them. So the Giz.
Gk., ml avTos avrcov rjyeiTo. Uriel is over Tartarus, xx. 2. Cf. for
minaries and seems to be rightly be the speaker in xxxii according to
mentioned in xxiii. 4, according to the this verse.
most probable text. See Appendix. XXI. 1-6. This place of punish-
5. Michael is the guardian angel of ment of the disobedient stars has
Israel: so in Dan. x. 13, 21; xii. 1, been already described in xviii. 6-12.
and likewise universally : see Weber, There is no material difference between
L. d. T. 165 : according to this verse the two accounts. 1. Origen
Michael is possibly the right speaker (De Pi inc. iv. 35) has cited this
in xxiv-xxvi. 6. Saraqael. Not verse : Ambulavi usque ad imperfec-
found elsewhere. 7. Gabriel should turn. 2. Chaotic : see Crit. Note.