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

Sect. II.] Chapter LX. 11-17. 157
names, and all the divisions are divided. 13. And the
thunders according to the places where they fall, and all
the divisions which are made among the lightnings that it
may lighten, and that their hosts may at once obey. 14.
For the thunder has places of rest : there it must wait till it
may peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable,
and, although not one and undivided, they both go together
through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when the
lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the
spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally
between them ; for the treasury of their peals is inexhaust-
ible (lit. (
like the sand '), and each one of them as it peals
is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the
spirit, and pushed forward according to the number of the
quarters of the earth. 16. And the spirit of the sea is
masculine and strong, and according to the might of his
strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it
is driven forward and dispersed amid all the mountains of the
earth. 17. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own
as used impersonally. All the divisions are divided. G reads
H*ft°l il¥£V; ^fal^V. 14. Dln/s interpretation of the text is
here followed, but it does not seem satisfactory. Hallevi's dis-
cussion of this passage (Joum. Asiat. 369-72; 1867) is worth
consulting. He arrives at the following translation :
' For the
thunder has fixed laws in reference to the duration of its peal
which is assigned to it : the thunder and the lightning are not
separated in a single instance :
they both proceed with one accord
and separate not. For when the lightning lightens, the thunder
utters its voice, and the spirit during its peal makes its arrangements,
and divides the time equally between them/ 15. Each
one of them as it peals. G M omit ' as it peals/ According
to the number of the quarters. For »fl*Hf G reads »flH"V.
phases. 13. Cf. Job xxxvii. 1-5. With the flow of the sea is connected
14. See Crit. Note. 16. The ebb its subterranean advance into the
and flow of the sea explained. Dis- mountains to nourish the springs. So
persed amid all the mountains. Din. 17. Is his own angel,