Book of Enoch Henok

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INTBODUCTION.
composed in tlie Chaldean language mingled with
Hebrew words/ and written in characters which
combine Syriac and Palmyrene with the ancient
Phoenician. These inscriptions are undated; but
Mr. Ellis attained the conclusion through internal
evidence, that these cups belonged to the descendants
of the Jews who were carried captive to
Babylon and the surrounding cities.
But the most important revelation attained
through these discoveries of Mr. Layard lies in the
interesting fact, mentioned in his work, that the
names of the angels inscribed on these cups, and
those recorded in the Book of Enoch, are, in many
instances identical, so that no doubt remains as
the Hebrew-Chaldee origin of that great Semitic
work, whether assignable to human genius or Divine
revelation ; and the exhumed amulets of Jews of
the Dispersion attest the accuracy of Archbishop
Laurence's conclusions respecting the nationality of
Pseudo-Enoch.
Ignorance of the contents of the Apocrypha, as
canonized by the Church of Eome, is so general
in England that many otherwise well-informed
people imagine that the Book of Enoch may be
found in its pages, whereas it has been lost to all
to
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" Halleluiah" appears upon the cups; and thus a word, with
which ancient Syro-Chaldseans conjured, has become, through the
vicissitudes of language, the Shibboleth of modern " Kevivalists.