2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 8
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Work: 2 Enoch
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Morfill & Charles 1896 — retained OCR sections
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which was unduly great at the outset has to some extent been diminished by Mr. Morfill’s critical acumen. This careful scholar, however, I should remark, has conscien- tiously refrained from all but obvious corrections of the text. Starting then from his translations of the Slavonic MSS. and of Sokolov’s text, I resolved after due examination to follow A in the main. B of course is followed when it preserves the obviously better reading, and that it does frequently. When both A and B are corrupt, I have fallen back on the text of Sokolov. Occasionally I. have been obliged to follow o…
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- The book of the secrets of Enoch;
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- eng
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