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

Sect. II.] Chapters LX. 18 — LXI. 2. 159
pared to be fed conformably to the greatness of God, that the
punishment of the Lord of Spirits may cause lamentation,
and slay the sons with their mothers, and the children with
their fathers. 25. When the punishment of the Lord of
Spirits shall rest upon them, it will rest in order that the
punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come in vain
upon them :
afterwards the judgment will take place according*
to His mercy and His patience/]
LXI. 1. And I saw in those days how long cords were
given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and
flew, and they went towards the North. 2. And I asked
the angel, saying :
( Why have these angels taken the cords
and gone off ? 3 And he said unto me :
' They have gone to
with the water on the earth.' 24. That the punishment of
the Lord of Spirits. So G M. Other MSS. give 'that the
punishment of the Lord.' May cause lamentation and slay
the sons. This rendering rests on an emendation of G's text
hm> : aD$»>W t rtXmfc ao^fi-ti (sic) Mil wfrttAi &%$ into
ham ffD^uiCT; AXmft: m>l£t#*av; .£*#. Din.
follows B C in inserting fifitbi, which is wanting in all other MSS.
E hazards hj^9°^\, borrowing from ver. 25. Din. gives ' that the
punishment of the Lord may not be in vain and the sons will be
slain,' &c.
LXI. 1. Took to themselves wings. G reads h£A instead
of Xi\&*. 2. Cords. So G M. Other MSS. and Din. give '*
long
24. See Crit. Note: cf. ver. 7 (note). some preceding part now lost. Din.
25. When the punishment . . . shall takes it as merely a general reference
rest upon them : cf. lxii. 12. After- to the angels that have hitherto apwards
the judgment will take peared in the Similitudes. "Wings,
place according to His mercy. In the O.T. the angels are not repre-
Gen. viii. 31, 22; En. lx. 5 (note). sented as winged, unless in its latest
God's mercy will be manifested after books: cf. 1 Chron. xxi. 16. Towards
the first judgment, but not till then. the North, i. e. the North-West : cf.
LXI. 1. Here the true text of the lxx. 3. Paradise is the destination
Similitudes is resumed, but the open- of the angels: cf. lx. 8 (note). 2.
ing verses are very difficult. Those The cords which the angels take
angels. The angels here referred to with them are for measuring Paramay
have been definitely named in dise. See the reference to this in