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

252 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. IV.
eyes were opened. to. And it looked at them and their
eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep and the rams saw it
and all ran to it. n. And notwithstanding all this, those
eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the
sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them
still the sheep took no action, but the rams lamented and
cried out. 12. And those ravens fought and battled with
it and sought to destroy his horn, but they had no power
over it. 13. And I saw them till the shepherds and eagles
and those vultures and kites came, and they cried to the
ravens that they should break the horn of that ram, and
they battled and fought with it, and it battled with them
omits A. GM add mChtl hOf*iWao*. 10. It looked at
them. Better take CX? as CO?, and translate ' it pastured with
them ' or 'pastured them/ It cried. GIN' they cried/ 1 1.
Notwithstanding all this. Better than Dln/s 'wahrend alle
dem.' Kites. Wanting in G. 12. Fought. G reads £&&&.
that thus there would not be even
the faintest reference to Judas, the
greatest of all the Maccabees. 10.
The eyes of the sheep are opened
through the efforts of Judas Macca-
baeus. Bams. So I have rendered
dabelat here and in the next verse
in accordance with Dln.'s latest
views : see Lex. col. 1101. The word
rendered 'ram' in lxxxix. 42-44 is
quite a different one, and has a
technical meaning not found in this
word. 11, 12. Eagles and vul-
tures and . . . kites. In the Syrian
armies mercenaries were enrolled
from the Greek and other nations :
cf. 1 Mace. v. 39 ; vi. 29. Syria uses
every effort against Judas but in vain.
13. It would seem that the use of
some of the symbols is not steady.
The 'vultures' and the 'kites' in ver.
2 must mean the Graeco-Egyptians
but in this verse and in ver. 11 it is
doubtful who are to be understood
by these. We have already observed
that the writer uses the same brute
symbol for different nations, i. e. the
wild boars represent the Edomites
in lxxxix. 66, but the Samaritans six
verses later: see also ver. 16 (note).
There may be a fresh change of
symbols here, and the vultures and
kites may stand for Ammon and
Edom : cf. 1 Mace. v. The struggle
here depicted is a life and death one,
and neither of. Hyrcanus' wars against
Antiochus Sidetis and Antiochus Cyzi-
cenus can fairly be described as such.
The latter, moreover, was conducted
by Hyrcanus' sons while Hyrcanus
himself was quietly discharging his
priestly duties in Jerusalem ; while
the former occurring during the first
year of Hyrcanus could not be re-
ferred to in vv. 12, 13, as ver. 11
deals with the first attacks of the