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

Sect. IV.] Chapter LXXXIX. 42-47. 239
sheep and trampling upon tov kv toIs irpoftaTois, ecos oS
them and behaving itself un- a^rjKev rr\v bbbv avrov Kal ijp-
seemly. 45. And the Lord £aro iropeuecrOai avobia. Kal 6
of the sheep sent the lamb to Kvpios TuvTrpoftdTctv airio-TeiXev
another lamb and raised it to tov apva tovtov eirl apva erepov
being a ram and leader of the tov arrival avrbv els Kpibv ev
sheep instead of that ram
which had been forgetful of
its dignity. 46. And it
apXP
T& v KpofiaTOiv olvtI tov
KpLOV TOV b\(j)€VTOS T7]V 6bbv OV-
tov. Kal iiropevOr) irpbs avrbv Kal
went to it and spake with it eXak-qaev ai o-iyfj Kara novas
alone, and raised it to being KalijyeipevavTovels Kpibv Kal els
ram, and made it the prince ap^ovra Kal els j\yov[ievov t&v
and leader of the sheep ; but irpo^aTOiv Kal ol Kvves eirl ttclctl
during all these things those tovtois €0\l(3ov to. irp6j3aTa.
dogs oppressed the sheep. 47. *E$rjs be tovtols yiypa-nrai otl
And the first ram pursued 6 Kpibs 6 -np&Tos tov Kpibv tov
that second ram, and that bevrepov e-rrebicoKev Kal tyv-
second ram arose and fled be-
y €V curb TrpoavTrov avrov' eir
fore it ; and I saw till those eOedpovv, (f)r)o-iv, tov Kpibv tov
dogs pulled down the first irp&Tov ecos ov enecrev e/jnrpoa-
amongst them.' So Gk. 45. The lamb to another lamb.
So Gk. All Ethiopic MSS. give ' the sheep to another sheep.'
Cf. ver. 48, Crit. Note. Instead of that ram. So D, thCLl (170 J
and Gk. avr\ tov Kpiov. Other MSS. 'instead of that sheep.'
This phrase as applied to Samuel
here cannot be used in the sense of
spiritual awakening and return to
God which it has elsewhere in this
vision : cf. ver. 28 (note). Here it
must mean the prophetic gift of in-
sight as in i. 2. The Greek version
certainly escapes this difficulty by
applying the phrase in its usual sense
to the sheep, and is probably the
true text. 45, 40. David anointed
king. Observe that in ver. 45 the
Greek used apva and not irp6/3aTov for
Samuel and for David so long as the
latter is not yet king, where the
Ethiopic employs the more general
term 'sheep.' Observe further that
Solomon previous to his coronation,
ver. 49, is called ' a little sheep,' i. e.
a lamb. I have followed the Greek :