2 Enoch

2 Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch — Morfill & Charles — Section 89

fifth heaven into revolt, in order to establish a counter kingdom to God, xxix. 4. Therefore Satan, or the Satans (for it is the name of a class) (Weber, 244), were cast down from heaven, xxix. 5; xxxi. 4, and given the air for their habitation, xxix. 5. As for his followers, the watchers of the fifth heaven, they were cast down to the second and there kept imprisoned and tortured, vii. 3; xviii. 4. Some, however, of the Satans or Watchers went down to earth and married the daughters of men, xviii. 4. From these were born giants, xviii. 5. Thereupon these watchers were im- prisoned under the earth, xviii. 6, 7, and the souls of the giants, their children, became subjects of Satan. To return to the Satans, however, when man was created, Satan envied him and wished to make another world, xxxi. 3. Out of envy he tempted Eve to her fall, xxxi. 6. XXX. 1. Cf.Gen. i. 10,11. Moun- tains. Thisis corrupt. Weshouldhave a reference here probably to non-fruit- bearing trees, as in Jub. ii. 7 τὰ ξύλα τὰ κάρπιμά τε καὶ ἄκαρπα. Every seed that is sown. ‘This phrase is found in Jubilees, ii. 7, as one of the third day creations. Paradise. Also in Jub. ii. 7, among the creations of the third day. 2. Circles of the heavens. In Philo, De Mundi Op. 38, we find seven circles as here, though with a different meaniny: τὸν οὐρανόν φασιν ἑπτὰ διεζῶσθαι κύκλοις. 8. Gen. i. 14-19. In the Chrono- graphy of Joel, circ. 1200 A.D., p. 34 (ed. Bekker, 1836), the discovery of the signs of the Zodiac, the solstices and the seasons, and the naming of the planets, are assigned to Seth ; but as such discoveries were anciently assigned to Enoch, and were only in later tradition ascribed to Seth, we may not unreasonably regard the mention in Joel of the five planets, Kronos, Zeus, Ares, Aphrodite, Her- mes, as ultimately derived from the Enoch literature. The statement in Joel is, ὁ δὲ Σὴθ πρῶτος ἐξεῦρε... τὰ σημεῖα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τὰς τροπὰς τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν... καὶ τοῖς ἄστροις ἐπέθηκεν ὀνόματα καὶ τοῖς πέντε πλανήταις εἰς τὸ 38 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. Ares; *on the fourth the Sun!; on the fifth Zeus; on the 4. And * the