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

Sect. v.] Chapters C 6 — CI. i. 289
that the angels will seek out your deeds in heaven from the
sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to
your sins because ye execute judgment on the righteous upon
earth. 11. And He will summon to testify against you
cloud and mist and dew and rain ; for they will all be with-
held by you from descending upon you, and that because of
your sins. 12. And now give presents to the rain that it
be not withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew,
when it has received gold and silver from you that it may
descend. 13. When the hoar-frost and snow with their
chilliness and all the winds of the snow with all their plagues
fall upon you, in those days ye will not be able to stand
before them.
CI. 1. Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and
ZtUittUfl*, and G 1 £.(Vfi\iao*. 10 . Execute judgment on.
G reads *»Wl4«f 1ft, and G 1
t7ft4.; 9°M. M: *Mf4 9°M.
ir. Cloud. So G. Other MSS. 'every cloud.' From descending.
G reads: htn>; ££&. Other MSS.: hcn>; h&Lf*.
And that because of your sins. So G : (D%S\\ 1fIL#Hlcn>\ But
the MSS. vary much. G 1
reads : (DjBL-i&fr £ft; ^HlUftliaD* « and
they will think of your sins/ Din. gives the same as G 1
addition of a negative and 1ft instead of £fl :
,
with the
' and shall not they
think of your sins?' B gives an attractive reading, £j&/h>£V£Q<
shall not they keep watch as to your sins V FHILMNO same
as Din., except £ft for 1ft. 12. That it may descend. So
G G * 1 L O. M inserts negative. FHN and Din. omit entire
phrase.
CI. 1. Ye children. So G G 1 M. Other MSS. ' all ye children/
heavenly powers which have witnessed testify against sinners, as they have
the sins of the wicked will testify been withholden on account of their
against them : cf. xcviii. 6-8 ; also sins. This is exactly in keeping with
xcvii. 7 ; civ. 8. In Hab. ii. 1 1 this lxxx, one of the chapters interpolated
testimony is given by the stones and in lxxii-lxxxii : cf. Jer. iii. 3. 12.
beams of the dwelling of the wicked. Spoken ironically. 13. Even the
Execute judgment, &c. Text very lesser punishments of the elements
uncertain : see Crit. Note. 11. All are irresistible.
the natural powers which minister 01. 1. The same subject pursued ;
to the fruitfulness of the earth will but the writer turns aside for a