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undoubtedly in the original, as it suits the connection.—11, 12. The Ethiopic text is evidently not pure here, and departs considerably from the Gr., the latter having the transitive GTR, instead of the intransitive be destroyed, and the negative in verse 12 must be erased, as the sense and the Gr., which has simply GTR, demand. The sense is, according to the Gr.: The spirits of the giants destroy, practice injustice, cause destruction, make attacks, fight and struggle, throw down on the earth and assault, but eat nothing, assume ghostly forms or produce them, but become thirsty and rush upon mankind. But the acc. of the Ethiopic is better than the GTR of the Gr. On the view of later authorities on the subject of demons, cf. Hoffmann, p. ant 1 9990990 203 sqq.; Langen, pp. 322, 323. CuaP. 16, 1. Evidently simply continuation of the preceding. The GTR of Syncellus, which Dillmann calls a miissige sinnsstérende Glosse, does not belong to the text. In this book the judgments, both the first and the final, have many different names, e.g. the great judgment, 19:1; 22:4; 25:4; 100:4; 103:8; or day of the great judgment, 84:4; 94:9; 98:10; 99:15; 104:5; or great day of the judgment, 10:6; 22:11; day of completion, 10:12; while the Parables have, the great day, 54:6; or day of trouble, 45:2.—2. Clemens Alex. refers to this strange statement in his remarks, Strom. V. p. 550 (ed. Sylburg. 1641), cf. Justin. Apol. B.; Epiph. adv. Haer., 1:4; Tertul. De Cultu Fem. 1:10. SECTION IV. Cuap. 17.—And they took me to a place where there were images like flaming fire, and when they wished they appeared like men. 2. And he led me to the place of the whirlwind, and on a hill, the point of whose summit reached to heaven. 3. And I saw shining places, and the thunder at the ends thereof; in the depths thereof a bow of fire, and arrows and their quiver, and a sword of fire, and all lightning. 4. And they took me to the so-called water of life, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun. 5. AndI came toa river of fire, whose fire flows like water, and is emptied into a great sea which is towards the west. 6. And I saw all the great rivers, and came to a great darkness, and went there where all flesh wanders. 7. And I saw the mountains of the black clouds of winter, and the place Cuap. 18.—And I saw the repositories of all the winds, and I saw how he had ornamented all the creation and the foundations of the earth with them. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth, and I saw the four winds which support the earth and the firmament of the heavens. 3. And I saw how the winds expand the heights of the heavens; and they remained between heaven and earth, and they are pillars of heaven. 4. And I saw the winds which turn the heavens, which lead down the course of the sun and all the stars. 5. And I saw the winds upon the earth which carry the clouds, and I saw the paths of the angels; I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heavens above. 6. And I proceeded towards the south; and it burns day and night there where seven hills of precious stones are, three towards the east, three towards the south. 7. But of those towards the east, one of colored stone, one of pearls, and one of antimony; and those towards the south of red stone. 8. But the middle one reached up to heaven, like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne of sapphire. 9. And I saw a burning fire which was in all the hills. 10. And there I saw a place, beyond the great earth; there the waters collected. 11. And I saw a great abyss in the earth, with columns of heavenly fire; and I saw among them columns of whither all the waters of the deep flow. 8. And I saw the mouths ofall the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep. winds, and I saw how he had