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

Sect. TV.] Chapter LXXXIX. 60-69. 245
whether or not they abide by My command which I have
commanded them. 64. But they shall not know it, and
thou shalt not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but
only record against each individual in each case all the
destruction which the shepherds effect and lay it all before
-" Me. 65. And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their
season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they
were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the hand of
the lions. 66. And the lions and tigers ate and devoured
the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars ate along
with them ; and they burned that tower and demolished that
house. 6y. And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that
tower because that house of the sheep was demolished, and
afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that
house. 68. And the shepherds and their associates de-
livered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour
them, and each one of them received in his time a definite
number, and the other wrote of each one of them in a
book how many each of them destroyed. 69. And each
one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed;
and I began to weep and lament on account of those sheep.
and see.' 64. Thou shalt . . . declare. G reads tl'h'fCM'dV
68. The other. All MSS. read A*l£Vfr. Either expunge A as above,
or render ' how many each of them destroyed in a different way.'
Cf. A in Asc. Is. v. 14
; Mark xv. 38. Or take A as a corruption
of ft. 69. Lament. So G M. Other MSS. add ' exceedingly.'
the guardian angel of Israel, and or possibly with a somewhat later
hence, probably, Michael. 64. date, as the former may come under
No remonstrance against or inter- .
the
account given in vv. 55, 56.
ference with the shepherds was to be 66. The account in general terms
made during their period of dominion, of the destruction of the northern
but all their deeds were to be re- and southern kingdoms by the lions
corded against the final judgment. and tigers, i. e. the Assyrians and
65. Into the hand of the lions. Chaldeans. The wild boars : see
The lions appear to be the Assyrians, ver. 12 (note). Cf. Obad. 10-12;
and the reign of the shepherds to Ezek. xxv. 12; xxxv. 5 sqq. ; Is.
begin contemporaneously with the final lxiii. 1-4; Ps. cxxxvii. *]. That
struggles of the northern kingdom tower, and that house : see ver. 50