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

Sect. II,] Chapter LXI. 3-10. 161
a command, and one voice, and one light like unto fire. 7.
And that One above all they blessed, and extolled and lauded
with wisdom, and showed themselves wise in utterance and in
the spirit of life. 8. And the Lord of Spirits placed the
Elect One on the throne of glory, and he will judge all the
works of the holy in the heaven, and weigh their deeds in the
balance. 9. And when he shall lift his countenance to
judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of
the Lord of Spirits, and their path according to the way of
the righteous judgment of the Lord of Spirits, then will they
all with one voice speak and bless, and glorify and extol and
laud the name of the Lord of Spirits. 10. And He will
call on all the host of the heavens and all the holy ones above,
above in the heaven received a command, and one power and one
voice and one light like unto fire were given unto them.' ' Power,'
* voice/ and ' light ' are in the nom. in Dln/s text. 8. On the
throne of glory. So GM. Din. gives ' on the throne of His glory.'
9. The Lord of Spirits. So G M. Other MSS. and Din. read
' Most High God.' 10, n. And He will call on all the host of
the heavens . . . and they will raise one voice. Din. translates
'and all the host of heaven will cry out/ &c. To arrive at this
translation he is obliged to alter tf*ft° in his text twice into ffrt*,
and to give an intransitive meaning to %OhO, which it never seems
to have. The reason he gives for such extreme measures is
' There is no conceivable reason for God calling together the host
of heaven, seeing they are already assembled around Him ' (p. 194).
for that purpose one power and one utterance.' 8. See xlv. 3 (note) :
voice are given to them. 7. That cf. Ps. ex. i. The holy in the
One, i. e. the Messiah : cp. ver. 5. So heaven, i.e. the angels: cf. lxi. 6
Din. But this is questionable: the (note). "Weigh their deeds: see
pronoun may just as reasonably be xli. 1 (note). 9. According to
referred to the Lord of Spirits before the word of the name of the Lord
whom nothing can perish, ver. 5 ; and of Spirits. This clause is evidently
it is very doubtful, if it is possible, parallel with the next, ' according to
to translate maqedma qal, * before all.' the way of the righteous judgment
We should perhaps render them 'the of the Lord of Spirits.' We might
first or opening words.' Hence, ' And therefore translate nagara ' com-
the opening words (of the angels' song) mand': 'according to the commands
blessed Him . . . and were wise in of the name of the Lord of Spirits.'