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

254 Tke Book of Enoch, [Sect. IV.
mand of the Lord, till he opened that book concerning the
destruction which those twelve last shepherds had wrought
and showed, that they had destroyed much more than their
predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep. 18. And I saw
till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took the staff
of His wrath into His hand and smote the earth so that it
was rent asunder, and all the beasts and the birds of the heaven
fell away from the sheep, and sank in the earth and it closed
over them. 19. And I saw till a great sword was given to
the sheep and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of
the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of the
heaven fled before their face. 20. And I saw till a throne
was erected in the pleasant land and the Lord of the sheep
sat Himself thereon, and that other took the sealed books and
Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction.
G reads: fl«J>A: XmfrnrtfcC: Xftcn>; t^trh; OMs X7RX; a^X*F;
rtl*frJS.. Destroyed much more than their predecessors,
before the Lord of the sheep. And I saw till the Lord of the
sheep came unto them. G makes ' before ' an adverb, and reads
CD immediately after it, omitting the (D before CtLYb, thus making
' the Lord of the sheep ' subject of the next sentence. Next, for
•JftlFcn*; X7Rfc mVO it reads IftlPcn*;