1.3
The Book of Enoch 1.3 · The Holy and Great One📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
Enoch gives the heart of his message as a parable: God leaves his dwelling.
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በእንተ፡1
ba-ʾǝnta
Concerning
ኅሩያን፡2
ḫǝruyān
the chosenchosen ones
እቤ፡3
ʾǝbe
I said,I say
, ወአውሣእኩ፡4
wa-ʾawśāʾku
and I took upand I answered
በእንቲአሆሙ፡5
ba-ʾǝntiʾāhomu
concerning them
ምስለ፤6
mǝsla
a parable:
: ቅዱስ፡7
qǝddus
The Holy
ወዓቢይ፡8
wa-ʿabiy
and Great One
ይወፅእ፡9
yǝwaḍḍǝʾ
will come forthhe goes out
እማኅደሩ፡10
ʾǝm-māḫdaru
from his dwelling.
. Concerning the chosen I said, and I took up concerning them a parable: The Holy and Great One will come forth from his dwelling.
Concerning the chosen I said, and I took up concerning them a parable: The Holy and Great One will come forth from his dwelling.
1.4
The Book of Enoch 1.4 · God on Mount Sinai📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The place of the coming is Sinai, the mountain of the Law.
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And the God of eternity will tread from there upon Mount Sinai, and will appear with his host, and will appear in the might of his strength from heaven.
The verse opens with a word that looks like the preposition “with” (7:1). ምስለ mǝsla has the same letters, but here it is the noun mǝsl, “a parable”, with the ending of the object: Enoch “took up a parable”. Dillmann’s senses run from “likeness” to “comparison” to “parable” (parabola, proverbium, simile), with Ecclesiastes 12:9 among his examples.
Then comes a name for God, ቅዱስ ወዓቢይ qǝddus wa-ʿabiy, “the Holy and Great One”. Dillmann’s examples of qǝddus said of God include this very pair, with Enoch 1:3. His dwelling is māḫdar, which Dillmann glosses habitatio and tabernaculum, a dwelling or a tent; he cites this verse for it.