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

Appendix C. 363
XXIV. I. (KcLKeWzv icfxabevo-a els aXXov tottov rrjs yrjs) Kal
*d€i£4v [jlol oprj irvpbs Kcuofjieva. . .vvktos. 2. /cat kireKtiva avr&v
ei:opev8r\v, Kal edeao-ap^v kiTTa opt] €vbo£a, iravra e/ccxrepa rod
(Kartpov bcaXXao-o-ovTo, &v ol XCOol €VTip.oi tt) KaXXovfj' KCLL TTCLVTa
(VTifia Kal k*vbo£a /cat eveibrj. (rpta €7r') avaroXas ccrr-qpiyfjiiva
(ev) ev rw hfij kol rpla em votov (e^) Iv tw hi. kol (j>apayy€s
fiaOeiai /cat rpayjeiai, fiia rrj paa ovk kyyi^ovcrai. 3. [/cat tg>
opet] efibopiov opos ava ixiarov tovtmv, kol vnepzixev tu v\j/ti. opLOtov
KaOzbpq Opovov kol irepieKVKXov bhbpa avTo evcobr). 4. Kal f
XXIV. i . e&£«r— fceopitva 2. enefctiva — KaWuvij — (arepiy/xcva—
(papavycs— rpaxiai — tvyei^ovoai 3. opi — p.eoo — wpi — Opovvov — clvtoj
tvtitirj
cannot mean ' pursues ' here, as M. Lods thinks, but ' persecutes,'
' punishes/ or ' avenges.' This would harmonize with xx. 4. But
this can hardly be right. The idea of punishing all the luminaries
is extravagant. It is more probable, therefore, that the author
derived Raguel not from yjn, 'to chastise,' but from njn, 'to feed,'
' nourish/ ' govern.' In this case for Giz. Gk. 1 ck8ukcov or Giz. Gk. 2
eKeMov we should read €k8ioikovv or bioacovv, and not €k8ikS>v. We
should then translate Raguel—who feeds (or nourishes) the world
of the luminaries. In like manner in this verse we should take
£k8iS>kov to be an early corruption for ckSioikovv or hioi