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

Sect, ii.] Chapters LX VIII. 5 — LXIX. 12. 179
and brought them down to the earth and led them astray
through the daughters of men. 5. And the second is called
Asbeel :
he imparted to the children of the holy angels the
evil counsel and led them astray so that they defiled their
bodies with the daughters of men. 6. And the third is
called Gadreel : he it is who has taught the children of men
all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed to
the sons of men the weapons of death and the coat of mail,
and the shield, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons
of death to the children of men. 7. And from his hand
they have proceeded over those who dwell on the earth from
that hour for evermore. 8. And the fourth is called
Penemue :
he taught the children of men the bitter and the
sweet, and taught them all the secrets of their wisdom.
9. And he instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper,
and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity and until
this day. 10. For it was not intended when man was
created (lit. ' men are not created to the end ') that he should
give confirmation to his good faith with pen and ink in such
wise. it. For man was created exactly like the angels to
the intent that he should continue righteous and pure, and
death which destroys everything could not have taken hold of
him, but through this their knowledge they are perishing and
through this power (of knowledge) it (death) is consuming
me. 12. And the fifth is called Kasdeja : he has taught
Other MSS. 'the holy angels.' 12. For WH-h&h G reads WthVk,
in the interpolated passage vi. 3. exactly like the angels. Man was
Jequn = < the inciter': Asbeel = ' the originally righteous and immortal:
deserter from God.' 6. Gadreel cf. Book of Wisdom, i. 13, 14; ii. 23,
is evidently a Satan as he led astray 24. This is also the doctrine of the
Eve. In viii. 1 the making of weapons Talmud, Weber, L.d.T. 208, 214,
of war is ascribed to Azazel. 9, 239. Man lost his uprightness and
10. Though the invention of the art immortality through the envy of the
of writing is ascribed to an evil spirit, devil, Wisdom ii. 24, through the evil
the writer does not seem to condemn knowledge introduced by the Satans
it save in so far as it is used as a or angels, En. lxix. II, through his
safeguard against the bad faith of own evil act, xcviii. 4. 12. Cf.
men. 11. Man was created Rosenmliller's Scholia on Ps. xci. 5, 6,
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