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

2o8 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. III.
which are on the earth: thence comes forth hoar-frost, and
days, seasons, and years pass away and vanish. 5. I saw
seven rivers on the earth larger than all the others : one of
them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great
Sea. 6. And two of them come from the north to the sea
and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east.
7. And the remaining four come forth on the side of the north
to their own sea, (two of them) to the Erythraean Sea, and two
flow into the Great Sea there, [according to others into the
desert]. 8. Seven great islands I saw in the sea and on the
mainland : two on the mainland and five in the Great Sea.
LXXVIII. 1. The names of the sun are the following: the
first Orjares, the second Tomas. 2. And the moon has four
names : the first Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase,
second part/ 5. Seven rivers. ' Seven ' wanting in Gr M.
7. Two flow into the Great Sea. SoHMNO and Din. G reads
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four flow into the Great Sea.' 8. Two on the mainland and
five in the Great Sea. So F I L M O and Din. G reads : rt«(Hh
(Dti&hi MchCi hc-rt.
do with those of xviii. 6 ; xxiv. 2 ; two seasons of the year in Palestine :
xxxii. 1. 5. One coming from cf. iii ; iv ; lxviii. 15. Orjares from
the west. This must be the Nile as Din "ttK is the sun when his power
Din. takes it, but the description is diminished in the winter season
1 from the west ' if genuine is difficult. for Din or bnn = ' potsherd ' as well
The Great Sea, i.e. the Mediter- as 'sun.' The second name (112)11 in
ranean : cf. Num. xxxiv. 6, 7. 6. our text altered into Tomas by change
The Euphrates and Tigris. The of d\ and i* denotes the sun when
Erythraean Sea. A general name the heat is powerful in the summer,
for the Arabian, Persian, and Indian from DDJ1. 2. The four names
seas (Din.). 7. The remaining of the moon are, as Hallevi shows,
four, i. e. the Indus, Ganges, Oxus, connected with its various phases,
and Jaxartes (Din.). According to Asonja from PP fivfrti; where [fe^M
others into the desert. This is is a diminutive of K^tf and IT merely
manifestly a gloss. Such a second an intensive termination. This is the
view is impossible in a vision. name of the moon in connexion with
LXXVIII, LXXIX. The rela- its likeness to the human face : cf.
tions of the sun and moon are again ver. 1 7. Ebla, altered from H32p =
described, as well as the waxing and the pale star, denotes the moon in
the waning of the moon. 1. Halle'vi her waning period. Benase, from
points out that the two names of nDD"P (i- e. i"ID3 to cover), is an apthe
sun given here correspond to the propriate name of the moon in the