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

Sect. I.] Chapter VI. 1-6. 63
him and spake :
' Let us all
swear an oath, and bind our-
selves by mutual imprecations
not to abandon this plan but
to carry it into execution/
5. Then sware they all to-
gether and bound themselves
by mutual imprecations to its
fulfilment ; and they were in
all two hundred. 6. And
they descended in the days
of Jared on the summit of
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kol eKakeaav to opos 'EpjjicofjL,
MSS. 'Pay the penalty of this great sin.' 5. Bound them-
selves by mutual imprecations/ So G M and the Giz. and Syn.
Gk. Other MSS. insert 'all/ 'They all bound themselves/ &c.
6. Descended in the days of Jared. I have here followed the
Greek text ol Karaj3duTes iv Tais rjfiepais 'Iapefi els rrjv Kopv(f)f]v tov
y
Ep/JLoviufx opovs. The Ethiopic text reads :
' descended on Ardis
which is the summit of Mt. Hermon/ The name Ardis, otherwise
unknown, is to be explained with Din. as a compression of 'ldpfd th t
the translator not having found iv reus rjnepcus in his text. Hallevi
in the Journal Asiatique, Avril-Mai 1867, pp. 356-357, reproduces
this verse in Hebrew, whereby we see at a glance, why the angels
descended in the days of Jared—from *TP to descend, and why it
was that they bound themselves by mutual oaths on Hermon
from D"?n a curse.
Cf. Book of Jubilees iv :
ii. 15; Commodian. Instruct, i. 3. In
the De Civ. Dei xv. 23, Augustine
combats this view, and denies the in-
spiration of Enoch, which is upheld by
Tertullian. 6. Descended in the
days of Jared. See Crit. Note ; also
cvi. 1 3. Din. refers also to Orig. Com-
ment, in Joann. torn. viii. p. 132, ed.
Huet ; Epiph. adv. Haer. i. 4, ed.
Petav, torn. i. p. 4. The reasons for
' Jared ; for in his days the angels of the
the descent of the angels in the Book
of Jubilees differ from those given in
this chapter. In iv and v of that book
it is stated that the watchers were sent
to the earth by God 'to instruct the
children of men to do judgment
and uprightness,' and that when so
doing they began to lust after the
daughters of men. This form of the
myth seems to be followed in Test.