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author standsat the time of the first judgment, but there is in reserve yet a hidden future judgment that seems almost too severe in the eyes of the angels. Then, too, the judgment, according to verse 5, is to all eternity. —3. By this word, i.e. the word of God that declares this punishment.—4. But before the throne of God Michael acknowledges the justice of the judgment, and suppresses the involuntary pity; cf. Isa. xiv. 11-13.—5. This verse seems to say that the final punishment of the angels is so severe that none other will be like it. Cuap. 69. After again dwelling briefly on the terrors of this punishment, the author gives a catalogue of the angels that fell, differing to some extent from the account in 6:7. Most of these names in both places are of doubtful etymology and of little importance, nothing but the invention of some ingenious speculator.—4. This task is assigned to Semjaza in 6:3.—9. The abuse of this art was sinful. The writers sin for such reasons as are assigned 99:2; 104:9, 10.—10, 11. Writing is sinful, as it indicates a state of dishonesty; cf. Wisd. I. 13, 14; ii. 23, 24; Matt. v. 37. It, ie. death—12. Cf. Ps. xci. 5, 6, 13, according to the old Jewish interpretation. Beatings that take place at noon, cf. Ps. xci.6.—13. The divine name used in swearing and witchcraft.—17. Cf. Ps. xxiv. 2; cxxxvi. 6.—18. Cf. Jer. v. 22; Prov. viii.; Job xxxviii—19. Cf. Prov. viii. 28.—21. Calls their names, cf. Isa. XL. 26; Ps. cxlvii. 4—24. Cf. En. 41:7.—26. With this verse we are, as the name Son of man, used of the Messiah, already indicates, again in the Parables, and this is proved by the ending of vs. 29. But whether these verses to 29 are a portion of a chapter cut out by the interpolator to furnish room for his remarks, or are to be connected with a certain part of the third parable must remain doubtful. They are, however, a good summary and close of this parable. Cuap. 70.—And it came to pass after this that his name was elevated during his lifetime to that Son of man, to the Lord of the spirits, away from those who dwell on the earth. 2. And it was elevated on the wagons of the spirit, and the name departed in their midst. 3. And from that day I was not drawn in their midst, and he set me between two winds, between the north and the west, there where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the chosen and for the just. 4. And there I saw the first fathers and the just, who dwell the heavens; there I saw the sons of the angels stepping on a flame of fire; their clothes were white and also their garments; and the light of their faces was like crystal. 2. And I saw two rivers of fire, and the light of that fire flamed like hyacinth, and I fell on my face before the Lord of the spirits. 3. And Michael, an angel from among the chiefs of the angels, took me by the right hand and lifted me up, and led me out to all the secrets of mercy and to the secrets of justice. 4. And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of heaven, and all the repositories of the stars and of the luminaries, and whence they proceed into the presence of the holy ones. 5. And the spirit moved Enoch into the heaven of heavens. And I saw there in the midst of the light how there was something which was built of crystal stone, and between these stones tongues of living fire. 6. And my spirit saw how a fire surrounded this house, on the four sides rivers full of living fire, and how they surrounded this house. 7. And around about were Seraphim and Cherubim and Ophanim; these are they who do not sleep, but guard the throne of his glory. 8. And I saw angels who could not be numbered, a thousand times thousand, and ten thousand times ten thousand, surrounded that house, and SECTION XII. Michael and Rufael, Gabriel and Fanuel, and the holy angels who are in the high heavens