Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not =from the place of Thy throne=,
=Nor turns away= from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
4. And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of
judgement.
5. And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not to destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has
aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant
of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.’
LXXXV-XC. _The Second Dream-Vision of Enoch: the History of the World to
the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom._
LXXXV. 1. And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole
dream to thee, my son. 2. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to
his son Methuselah: ‘To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my
words—incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father. 3. Before I
took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull
came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came
forth a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one
of them black and the other red. 4. And that black bull gored the red
one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see
that red bull. 5. But that black bull grew and that heifer went with
him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and
followed him. 6. And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of
that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and
lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him. 7. And I
looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that
time onward she cried no more. 8. And after that she bore another white
bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.
9. And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a
great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they
resembled him. 10. And they began to beget many white bulls, which
resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.
LXXXVI. _The Fall of the Angels and the Demoralization of Mankind._
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