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

196 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. Til.
amounts to ten parts and the day to eight. 31. And on
that day the sun rises from that second portal, and sets in the
west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for
one and thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven.
32. On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine
parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the
day, and the year amounts exactly to three hundred and sixty-
four days. 33. And the length of the day and of the
night, and the shortness of the day and of the night—through
the course of the sun these distinctions arise (lit. ' they are
separated '). 34. On that account its course by day becomes
daily longer, and its course by night nightly shorter. 35.
And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return
as often as he returns sixty times and rises, i.e. the great
luminary which is named the sun, for ever and ever. 36.
And that which thus rises is the great luminary, being so
named according to its appearance, according to the command
of the Lord. 37. As he rises so he sets and decreases not,
and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is
sevenfold brighter than that of the moon ; but as regards
size they are both equal.
LXXIII. 1. And after this law I saw another law dealing
with the smaller luminary, which is called the moon. 2.
one part. G reads: 1*^t: XA "Ho*X*F; h$£Vg. 31. Second
portal. ' Second ' wanting in G. 35. As often as he returns
sixty times. So G, omitting the J&7»flX: AX11* of Dln/s text
1 As often as he returns : he returns sixty times.' The great
luminary. So G M. Other MSS. and Din. * the great eternal
luminary/ 37. As he rises, &c. So GM: (lh; jB.tf>0X:
(DhaDlli £ft(D-h. Night. After this word I omit with G M the
phrase ' in the chariot ' (Din.).
Note. 35. Sixty times. The being the extra day in the first, third,
sun is one month in each portal on fourth, and sixth portals. 37.
his northward journey, and one month Sevenfold brighter : cf. xci. 16 ;
in each portal on his southward Is. xxx. 26. As regards size . . .
therefore two months in each portal. equal. So Lucretius believed.
The author disregards for the time LXXIII. This and the following