8.2
The Book of Enoch 8.2 · Godlessness spreads📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The result of the teaching.
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ወኮነ፡1
wa-kona
And there wasand it was
[ዓቢይ፡2
[ʿabiy
[great
ወ]ብዙኃ፡3
wa]bǝzuḫa
and] much
ርስዓን፡4
rǝsʿān
godlessness,impiety
, ወዘመዉ፡5
wa-zamawu
and they committed fornication,and they fornicated
, ወተሳሐቱ፡6
wa-tasāḥatu
and were led astray,and they went astray
, ወማሰኑ፡7
wa-māsanu
and became corruptand they were corrupted
ኵሎ፡8
kʷǝllo
in all
ፍናዊሆሙ።9
fanāwihomu
their ways.
. And there was [great and] much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.
And there was [great and] much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.
8.3a
The Book of Enoch 8.3a · Spells and roots📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The teachers are named one by one, with what each taught.
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Amiziras taught enchanters and cutters of roots; and Armaros taught the loosing of enchantments,
Rǝsʿān is “impiety”, Dillmann’s one Latin word. His neighbouring entry, rǝsʿat, gives oblivio, forgetfulness, as its first sense and impietas as its second, and cites this verse. In Ge’ez, then, godlessness lives next door to forgetting. Charles brackets “great and”, words some manuscripts have and others lack.
Zamawa is the Ge’ez verb for fornication; Dillmann sets it beside Hebrew zānāh, and one of his examples is the fornication the Watchers committed, from Jubilees 7. Tasāḥata goes with sǝḥta, errare, aberrare, to wander off the path. Māsana is to rot or be corrupted; Dillmann traces it to a root for growing old and decaying. Fanāwihomu, “their ways”, is the plural of fǝnot, a road: the corruption reaches the whole way a person lives.