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20 Concerning the Writings 
exception. Samael, the angel of death, 
rejoices in the greatnefs of his victim: and 
Michaei reproaches him, faying: ‘* God 
rebuke thee, that when I mourn thou 
Jaugheft.”” Mofes applies to the creatures 
of the air, earth, and waters, to pray for 
him, but in vain. Jofhua offers to pray 
for him; but Samael clofes his mouth. 
. The elders of the people offer to pray for 
"Bim; but 184000 devils, imitating Sa- 
mael, hold clofe the mouths of the people. 
Jehovah commands Gabriel to fetch the 
foul of Mofes; but he makes excufes: 
Michael! is lkewife crdered; but he too 
apologifes: and then Zinghiel. At length 
Samael undertakes the office; but, onmbe- 
holding the beams of Mofes countenance, 
he is terrified and withdraws. - At Jali Je- 
hova himfelf comes, and Mofes gives up 
the ghoft. Zinghicl, Gabriel and Michael 
bury the beady. 
Of the book of Enoch again the original 
has not been preferved. It was fuppofed 
utterly to have perifhed; until the Capu- 
chin miffionary, Gilles Ge Loche, informed 
Pierefe that the Abyffinians had the book 
of Enoch. A pretended copy of it was 
brought to Europe, anc examined by Lu 
dolf, the father of /&thiopic literature; 
but be announced it as containing only 
the vifions of a monk, Bebaila Michael. 
It was referved for Mr. Bruce (vol. i. p. 
AS.) to afcertain that the book of Enoch 
is coitained in the Abyffinian canon of 
Scripture, and arranged next the book of 
Job, and to bring three copies of it into 
Europe. One was placed at Paris in the 
Royal Library, another at Oxford im the ' 
Bodleian Library, and the third, which is 
part of a complete copy of the Abyffinian 
canon, in London. . 
In 1773, C. G. Worde, who publifhed, 
at Oxford, a Coptic Ditionary and Gram- 
mar, vifited Paris, and took a copy of the 
French manufcript of Enoch. Some paf- 
fages were by him tranflated into Latin, 
and circulated among his correfpondents, 
-Michaelis aad Capperonier (lee Buhle’s 
Correipondence of Michaelis, Gottingen, 
Thefe tranflated extraé&ts have 
fince been corrected and augmented by 
M. de Sacy (to whole far-darting eru- 
dition every thing difficult is eafy) and 
publifhed at Paris under the title Notice 
du liwre d Enoch. From his Latin is de- 
rived the: following Englifh abridgement : 
Out of the Firft Chapter. . 
The faying of Enoch, when he bleffe 
the righteous who fhall be chofen on the 
day of judgment, when the ungodly are 
driven out, 
Enoch, a righteous, man, who came 
and. Readings of Fude. [Feb. 1, 
from the Lord, at the time when his eyes 
were opened, fpake and faid, I faw the 
vifion of the Holy One, who is in heaven, 
whom‘angels fhowed unto me, from whom 
I heard all. And I knew that what I faw 
fhould not come to pafs in this generation ; 
but in the generation which is to come, 
when the fcattered fhall be gathered toge- 
ther. I fpake about the elect with the 
Holy One, who came out of his taberna- 
cle, the antient of days, and ftood on 
Mount Sinai, and was made manifeft in 
the ftrencth of his might from heaven. 
And all were afraid, even the watchers of 
the hoft; and fear and trembling came up- 
on themto the ends of the earth. The high 
mountains quaked;‘and the hills melted like 
honeycomb in the fummer-noon; and the 
earth funk into the old filence, and all that 
wandered on it perifhed. And there was 
judgment over’ the ju&t.and the unjuft; 
mercy for the juft who fhall be God’s, 
and nappy, and blefied; and the light of 
the Lord fhall thine upon them: but he 
fhall come with the myriads of his faints 
to execute doom upon the wicked ; and to 
deftroy all flefh that hath worked fin and 
iniguity,. 
2. All whoare inthe heavens know their 
work. The lights on high do not change 
their ways; but every one rifes and fets in _ 
its jeafon, cbeying the command of him 
who beholds from above the earth and all 
that is thereon, from the beginning to the 
end, whofe faying changeth not, whofe 
commandment endureth winter and fum- 
mer; in the day of waters and dewy clouds, 
and when rains reft upon the whole world. 
6. In thofe days the fons of men were 
multiplied, and tair daughters were born — 
to them. And the angels, the fons of 
heaven, {aw them and lufted after them. 
And they faid one to another, ‘* Let us 
choofe ourfelves wives of the daughters 
of men, and go in unto them, and have 
children. And Samyaza, their prince 
-faid, I fear ye will not long be fo minded ; 
_ Lonly fhall have done this deed, and fhall 
be punifhed alone. And they faid, Let 
us all fwear to sbide by this counfel. And 
they all fwore with imprecation. And the 
two hundred who had fworn went down 
upon Ardis, which is the fummit of Ar- 
mon (Haram* anathema), fo called be- 
* In the Syriac chronicle of Gregory Bar- 
Hebreus (p. 3.) are thefe words. Tempore 
Sethi, quando filii ejus beatam wvitam paradifi re- 
cordati Junt, in montem Heruton feceffcrunt, et vi- 
webant moribus puris et fanétis (not in defe toy as 
in the printed interpretation) @ matrimoniis ab~ 
fincttes, unde vocati junt wigilgs et filri Dei. 
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