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

Sect, iv.] Chapter LXXXIX. 31-41. 237
I saw till this sheep which had met that sheep which led the
sheep fell asleep ; and I saw till all the great sheep perished
and little ones arose in their place, and they came to a
pasture, and approached a stream of water. 38. Then that
sheep which led them and became a man withdrew from
them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and
lamented over it with a great lamentation. 39. And
I saw till they left off crying for that sheep and crossed
that stream of water, and there always arose other sheep
as leaders in the place of those which had led them and
fallen asleep (lit. f had fallen asleep and led them''). 40.
And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly place and a
pleasant and glorious land, and I saw till those sheep were
satisfied ; and that house stood amongst them in the pleasant
land. 41. And sometimes their eyes were opened, and
sometimes blinded, till another sheep arose and led them
and brought them all back, and their eyes were opened.
GI Q1f£X£. Other MSS. and Din., 'there the vision.'
37. Id stead of CiUlbi (170 G gives the confused text *HJK
Afl70. Which led the sheep. GM read 'which led them/
41. And sometimes their eyes were opened. Wanting in G.
centre of their worship. 37. Death Nova Bihliotheca, t. ii. I have given
of Aaron and of all the generation this fragment for purposes of com-
that had gone out of Egypt. Pasture. parison with the English version of
The land to the east of Jordan. A the Ethiopic. The k£fjs which occurs
stream. The Jordan. 38. Death between two verses belonging im-
of Moses : cf. Deut. xxxiv. 39. mediately to each other, i. e. 46, 47,
Other sheep as leaders. The and the cfnjaiv inserted in ver. 47 prove
Judges, including Joshua. 40. that the collector of these Greek
Palestine : cf. xxvi. 1 . Observe that excerpts had not the complete Enoch
the epithet 'glorious' is used in the before him, but drew them from an
same connexion by Dan. xi. 16, 41. author who had brought together
41-50. History of the times of the passages from Enoch and annotated
Judges to the building of the Temple. them. So Gildemeister, Zeitschrift
Of vv. 42-49 there is preserved a D. M. 6?., 1855, pp. 621 sqq. 41.
valuable fragment of the Greek Periods of religious advance and de-
version. This was published by Mai clension : work of Samuel.
from a Vatican MS. in the Patrum