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

General Introduction. 5
GM and nine MSS.; xc. 19 where G M and eight MSS.;
xeiii. 10 where G M and seven MSS.
I will adduce one more point under this head. On xcviii. %
all MSS. but G G 1 M agree in giving a vox nulla. The
agreement of these later MSS. in presenting a counterfeit
word points either to a recension or to the same ancestry.
§ 3. Greek Version.
Only fragments of this version have come down to us pre-
served in the chronography of George Syncellus (about
800 B.C.). These are vi-ix. 4; viii. 4-x. 14; xv. 8-xvi. 1;
and in a Vatican MS. (Cod. Gr. 1809) published by Mai in
the Patrum Nova Bibliotheca, vol. ii. Only lxxxix. 42-49
is found in this MS. I have printed these fragments in
parallel columns with the translation from the Ethiopic.
The Greek version has, no doubt, undergone corruption in
the process of transmission ; yet in many respects it presents
a more faithful text than the Ethiopic. This we might infer
to some extent from what has gone before, and the following
instances where it undoubtedly preserves the truer reading
will more than confirm this view:—vi. 6; viii. 1 ; ix. 6, 10
x. 14; xv. 11; lxxxix. 45, 48. In these instances we have
followed the Greek version against all the Ethiopic MSS.
The Greek version is by no means free from corruptions.
As the Greek fragment which has lately been discovered at
Cairo has not yet been published, I have not been able to
avail myself of it.
§ 4. Emendations.
The text presented by the best MSS. is still far from
perfect, and contains many primitive errors. Some of these
have been emended successfully by Din. and Hallevi. I have
introduced into the text emendations of Din. in the following
passages :—lvi. 7 ; lxii. 1 ; xc. 38 ; and emendations of Hallevi
in lxvii. 13; lxxvii. 1-3; ci. 4, 9; and emendations of my
own in xvi. 1; xli. 9; xlvi. 2; lx. 6, 19, 24; lxiii. 7;