3 Enoch

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174 THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH [CH. XLVIII(D) 93 SePhaM, 96GBIR, 97GiBbOR YaH, 98GOR, 9GOR YaH 100oZ1W, ror’ OKBaR, the 102LESSER YHWH, after the name of his Master, (Ex. xxiii. 21) “for my name 1s in him”, 103RaBIBIEL, 1o4TUMIEL,!* 105 Segansakkiel*, the Prince of Wisdom. 2 FG: ‘Sagnezagiel’ Lm: ‘Neganzegael’ Mekapperyah (no. 93) which would seem to assign to Metatron an atoning function. Yehoel (no. 1) is as well in earlier as in later literature the name of the high angel of the ‘Presence’ (cf. Box, Ap. Abr. x, xii). His name is composed of the letters of — the Divine Name, hence the ‘shemi beqirbé’ (‘my name is in him’) could appro- priately be applied to him. Cf. Ap. Moses, and in a later attestation e.g. Add. 26922, 1011. 41 bseqq. (Yehoel on a level with Metatron as the Prince of the Presence). Lastly the Tetragrammaton itself appears as one of the names: no. 14. : For enumerations of the names of Metatron cf. inter al.: (1) Hek. R. xxvi. BH. iii. 104 (the centre of thisenumeration are the ‘eight names >: Margeziel, Giyothiel, etc., Yehoel. . . Sagnesagiel) : “In the camps of the holy angels they call him: * Metatron, the ‘Ebed YHWH (!), the long-suffering and the merciful or: YHWH, wise in secrets etc.”. (2) Hek. Zot. Bodl. MicH. 9, fol. 69 b, containing nos. 6, 46; 4 here, and ‘Uzyah, Menunyah, Sasnegaryah, ’Atmon, Sigron, etc. (3) Hek. Zot. Bodl. micu. 9, 101. סל‎ a: “‘...the prince of the Host on high, the ‘Ebed YHWH, God of Israel, blessed be He, longsuffering etc.”’; cf. Hek. R. above. The Divine Attri- butes (from Ex. xxxiv. 6-7, cf. 4 Ez. vii. 132 seqq.) seem to have been ascribed to Metatron, and the name ‘‘Ebed’ to have been referred to the ‘Ebed YHWH picture of Deutero-Isaiah. (4) Shi‘ur Qoma, e.g. Bodl. opp. 467, fol. 59 a, Bodl. opp. 563, fol. 92 b: “‘Metatron, Ru%h Pisqonith (cf. above), Itmon, Hegron, Sigron, Maton, Miton Netit, Netiph”. (5) YR. i. 56b from Tigqqunim. ‘This passage makes an attempt at explaining the meaning of the names. Metatron, it says, is called by the resp. names acc. to the various functions he is performing. He is called ‘Otmon’ (from ‘atam = stop, shut’) when he seals the guilty in Israel, ‘Sigron’ (‘sagar = shut’) when he shuts the doors of prayers (i.e. the doors through which man’s prayers are let into heaven), ‘ Pithhon’ at the time when he opens for the prayers, * Pisqon’ (cf. above) at the time when he decides Halakoth in Ragqia‘, in the (celestial Beth Din....And this angel is called by 60 myriads of names of angels (cf. above). He is called ‘Chasdiel’ when he does kindness to the world, ‘Gabriel’ at the time when ‘gebura’ is in the world, ‘ Sithriel’ when he hides the children of the world under his wings from the angels of destruction. He is also called Sidgiel, Raphael and Malikiel. (6) YR. i. 60 b, from a ‘midrash’, with reference to Alph. R. ‘Aqiba, hence possibly a fragment of a recension of the present verse. In fact, the following names of the present verse occur there: nos. ,ד‎ 3; 4, 5, 6, 1127, (variant), 21 (and variant), 22, 48 (as Pisqonith), 25. the remaining twenty names of that passage five recur in S. ha-Chesheg and the related commentary on Metatron’s names, Bodl. MICH. 256 and a couple of the rest in the Hek. R. and Hek. Zot. passages referred to above. (7) S. ha-Chesheq (Add. 27120, foll. 1 seqq.).. The following names of the present verse occur there: nos. Il, 17, 21,/253) 30,4 0 eeaoe 51, 54, 58-59, 60, 61, 64, 75, 77, 90, 94, 95.. (8) Bodl. micu. 256, 1011. 20 a-44 a, a treatise called Shemoth shel Metatron: ‘The Names of Metatron’, presenting 77 different names with commentary. The names and order of names are on the Meas 0 or resembling those of 9. It may be noted that bee eile or 0 jan the present fragment (the Prince of the Law who 0 apr ote 6 ae to Moses) is included in this enumeration The: ל‎ es aR. ron, {tmon, *Ebed, Senegron, Galli-Razayya also occur. mem ae) names consist in explanations by means of Gematria. ‘The ו‎ wh ו‎ as signifying different functions of his. The name ה (שרי)‎ y gematria * Shaddai’, for he said to God’s world: it is enough נ( ץר‎ atron carries the world upon the great crown, and he 8