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gives to His work its true perspective, and that it was from 

 them that He and His Apostles drew their doctrines for the 

 present and the future life, and their ideas of the final 

 judgment — in a word, their eschatological teaching.* 



Slavonic Enoch {The Secrets of Enoch). 



The two books of Enoch show considerable points of 

 similarity, but they come to us from different sources, different 

 dates are assigned to them, and they are not attributed to the 

 same authors. The one of later date is known solely through 

 Slavonic manuscripts, translations of a presumed Greek 

 original, and for this reason is usually termed the " Slavonic 

 Enoch." The other comes in the main through Ethiopic 

 manuscripts, though fragments of it have also been found in 

 Greek ; it is therefore known as the " Ethiopic Enoch." 



The Slavonic redaction of the text of the Book of the Secrets 

 of Enoch, translated for the first time into English in 1896 by 

 Professor W r . E. Morfill, and edited by Dr. E. H. Charles, has 

 come down to us mainly in two versions : — A, which is a South 

 Russian recension, and B, a short and incomplete redaction of a 

 Serbian text. Canon Charles says, " as regards the relative 

 merits of A and B, though the former is very corrupt, it is 

 nevertheless a truer representative of the original than B. B is 

 really a short resumd of the work, being about half the length 

 of A."f 



Professor Sokolov, of Moscow, had previously brought out an 

 edition of the work, having not only A and B, but three other 

 similar manuscripts upon which to base a text, but in his 

 editing he does not discriminate between the various sources 

 which he employs. This Dr. Charles does invariably, to the 

 great benefit of the student. Professor Morfill's text is chiefly 

 based upon A, for B leaves out much of what is found in A, 



* Canon E. McClure, in his paper read before the Victoria Institute 

 on "Modernism and Traditional Christianity" (January 18th, 1915), 

 drew special attention to the part which has been played in the Modernist 

 movement by this claim as to the importance of the apocalyptic literature 

 and has given in a footnote an admirable summary of the principal 

 works composing this literature. 



In the present paper I am concerned only with those books which 

 supply astronomical allusions of importance. 



T §3 of the Introduction. 



