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

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256 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. IV.
ment was held first over the stars, and they were judged and
found guilty and went to the place of condemnation, and they
were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full
of pillars of fire. 25. And those seventy shepherds were
judged and found guilty, and likewise cast into that fiery
abyss. 26. And I saw at that time how a like abyss was
opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and those
blinded sheep were brought, and they were all judged and
found guilty and cast into that fiery abyss, and they burned :
now this abyss was to the right of that house. 27. And
I saw those sheep burning and their bones burning. 28.
And I stood up to see till He folded up that old house ; and
all the pillars were taken away, and all the beams and
ornaments of the house were folded up with it, and it was
taken off and laid in a place in the south of the land. 29.
And I saw the Lord of the sheep till he brought a new house
greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place
of the first which had been folded up :
all its pillars were new,
and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first
one which He had taken away, and the Lord of the sheep was
runs, 'and behold they were all bound before Him/ 24. Flaming,
and full of pillars of fire. G omits wy°fcX flaming with pillars
of fire.' 25. Seventy. GM rt«OX. 26. Pull of fire.
G reads W°&& instead of R^frO. Fiery abyss. G L give
OffHr\ 28. Folded up: reading C^T for a\9°9 according
to Dln.'s conjecture. M reads 1*ATcn>, N OKD? . In a place.
G reads Ogftfc fttn>»ii. 29. The first one. So G. Other
MSS. ' the first old one/ The Lord of the sheep was within.
An abyss full of fire : cf. xviii. 11 24 ; En. xlviii. 9 (note). 28, 29.
xix ; xxi. 7-10. 25. The shepherds The removal of the old Jerusalem
are cast into the same abyss : cf. liv. and the setting up of the New Jeru-
6 (note). 26. The apostates are salem. This expectation is derived
cast into Gehenna. In the midst from O.T. prophecy : Ezek. xl-xlviii
of the earth: cf. xxvi. 1. To the Is. liv. II, 12; lx ; Hagg. ii. 7-9;
right of that house, i.e. to the Zech. ii. 6-13. The idea of a new
.south of Jerusalem. 27. The Jerusalem coming down from heaven
apostates were punished in view of was a familiar one in Jewish Apo-
the blessed in Jerusalem : cf. Is. lxvi. calypses : cf. IV Ezra vii. 26 ; xiii. 36 ;