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

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The Book of Enoch.
ment signification. For the history of this word and its
meanings, see note on lxii. 10.
It is further interesting' to note that the writer of xci-civ
delivers himself of a sustained polemic in cii. 4-civ. 9 against
the Old Testament doctrine of Sheol, and the fact that this
writer in xci. 4 borrows Ecclus. i. 25 makes it probable that
the immediate book he had in view is Ecclesiasticus, which
enforces dogmatically and repeatedly the Old Testament
doctrine of Sheol.
The Resurrection. This doctrine, which is first taught
beyond possibility of doubt in Dan. xii, though a true
exegesis will find many intimations of the doctrine in earlier
books, was made a common-place of Jewish theology by the
book of Enoch. For the various forms this doctrine assumed,
see note on li. 1.
(d) The Demonology of Enoch reappears for the most part
in the New Testament.
(a) The angels which kept not their first estate, S. Jude 6
2 S. Pet. ii. 4, are the angelic watchers who fell from
lusting after the daughters of men, and whose fall and
punishment are recounted in En. vi-xvi. They have always
been imprisoned in darkness from the time of their fall.
(j3) Demons. These are, according to Enoch xvi. 1, the
spirits which went forth from the souls of the giants who
were the children of the fallen angels and the daughters of
men. These demons were to work moral ruin on the earth
without hindrance till the final judgment as disembodied
spirits.
So in the New Testament. The demons are disembodied
spirits, S. Matt. xii. 43-45; S. Luke xi. 24-26. They are
not punished till the final judgment : S. Matt. viii. 29, 'Art
Thou come hither to torment us before the time ? ' They are
subject to Satan, S. Matt. xii. 24-28.
(y) Satan appears in Enoch as the ruler of a counter kingdom
of evil, yet a kingdom subject to the Lord of Spirits. He
led astray the angels and made them his subjects, liv. 6; lxix. 5.