2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 64

of one day!. 5. But in the lunar year there are three hundred and fifty-four days, making twelve months of twenty- nine days; and * there remain eleven days over, which belong to the solar circle of the whole year *, and are * lunar epacts of the whole year*®. [Thus the great circle has five hundred 6. The fourth part (of one day) is neglected during three years and the fourth year completes it and thirty-two years. | exactly. *On account of this they are omitted from the heavens during three years, and are not added to the number of the days*, on which account these change the seasons of the year *in two new months, to make the number complete and there are two others to diminish °. 7. And when she has gone through the Western gates, she returns and goes to the Eastern, with her light, *and so she goes day and night in the heavenly circles, below all the circles more quickly than 1 So she sets by the western gates and finishes the year in 364 days that are accomplished, B. This may be the original text, or 364 may be an error for 354. B OMITS VERSE 5. * Eleven days of the solar circle are wanting, Sok. 3. Epacts of the lunar year, A. + She goes through the year on this account and therefore the computation is made apart from the heavens, and in the years the days are not reckoned, B. Brome XVI.5. Twenty-nine days. This should be ‘twenty-nine and a half days.’ [Thus the great circle has it is consequently a period in which Easter and all the movable and un- movable feasts would occur on the 532 years.| I have bracketed these words as they have no real connexion with the context. They arose obviously from a marginal gloss. The writer in this chapter does not get beyond the Metonic cycle, whereas the great eycle of 532 years is produced by multiplying together the Metonic cycle of nineteen years, and the Solar cycle of twenty-eight years. This great cycle is called the Dionysian or Great Paschal Period. As it includes all the variations in respect of the new moons and the dominical letters, ς