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

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The Book of Enoch.
at all and was probably subsequent to it and only partially
affected M. This probable conclusion becomes a certainty
when we examine the rest of the book. The following list
of passages in which we have departed from Dln/s text, in
deference to the better readings of the British Museum MSB.,
shows that G represents an ancient unrevised text, and that
G 1 M are nearly related to G ; but that all the rest belong
more or less closely to another type of text, of which we may
regard Dln/s text as a partially adequate representation.
This latter type of text gives an inferior meaning, frequently
when opposed to G alone, and nearly always when opposed
to GM, G G 1 , or G G 2 M, or these supported by one, two, or
more of the other MSS. Thus I have followed against Din.
alone 102 times.
, G
G with one or more of CDEFHKLNO .
GM
G M with one or more of ABCDEFHIKLNO
GG
126
38
1 GG
12
1 withENandILO 2
GG'M
G
19
X M
M alone or with Greek or with other MSS. .
2
1
D with Greek 1
E N with Greek . . . . . . 1
FI 1
.7
322
Thus in 323 instances I have followed the above MSS.
against Din. In every instance, however, I have also given
Dln/s text with its translation that the reader may form his
own judgment.
Before passing from this subject I will give a few passages
to show how weakly at times Dln/s text is supported even by
inferior MSS. See Crit. Notes on xxxix. 7 where G M and
seven other MSS. are against him; liii. 7 where G M and
nine other MSS. ; lxvii. 3 where G M and eight other MSS.
lxvii. 13 where G M and all MSS. but BC; xc. 18 where