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

Sect. I.] Chapters IX. 7 — X. 2. 71
and they cannot escape from
the unrighteousness which is
wrought on the earth. 1 1.
And thou knowest all things
before they come to pass, and
Thou knowest this thing and
every thing affecting them,
and yet Thou didst not speak
to us. What are we therefore
to do in regard to this ?
X. 1. [Then spake the Most
High, the Great and Holy
One, and sent Arsjalaljur to
the son of Lamech and said
to him : 1. ' Tell him in My
name " hide thyself !
", and
reveal to him the end that is
approaching: for the whole
earth will be destroyed, and a
deluge will presently come
upon the whole earth, and
all that is on it will be de-
cgekOelv and irpoo-to-nov t&v tin
ttjs yrjs yivo\kkv(&v dbiK-qpLOLTOiV.
kclI ctv avra olbasirpb t&v avra
yeviorOai ko1 opqs clvtovs kcli
eas clvtovs, Kat ovbev Aeyets.
f( Set Troirjaai clvtovs irepl rov-
tov ;
tot€ 6 vy\nln>XV s ovt5>v. In IX. 3 read the
spirits of the souls instead of the souls. The Giz. Gk. supports
in xvi. 1 and xxii. 3 the readings adopted but agrees with the
Ethiopic text in ix. 3, 10.
X. 1-3. These verses belong to an
Apocalypse of Noah. 1. The
Most High ; see xcix. 3 (note). The
Great and Holy: see i. 3 (note).
Arsjaiaijttr. For this the Syn.
Gk. has simply Uriel, and the Giz.
Gk. has Istrael. The name in the
text is probably a corruption. Son
of Lamech, i. e. Noah. If x. 1-3
belonged originally to this section,
the writer must have followed the
Samaritan reckoning. Hide thyself;
i. e. in order to receive further dis-
closures from the angel: cf. xii. I.