The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En^ I vi SECOND COPY 177
I find a reference to this verse, and precisely to the reading 'the great day of judgement', in
verse 6 of the Epistle of Jude: dyyeXovs . , , els Kplaiv fjLeydX'qs rjiiipas SeafjLots d'CSlois VTTO
^6ov T€Trjpr]K€v (cf. 2 Peter 2: 4 and 9). The author of the Epistle of Jude seems, however, to
have summarized with this short phrase the two accounts in the book of Enoch, the first of the
punishment of 'A^a'el, carried out by Raphael (En. 10: 4-8), and the second of the punishment
of Semihazah and his companions, entrusted by God to Michael (En. 10: 11-13). I point out in
passing that A^a-qX in C and in S is certainly 'A^a'el, the tenth angel (see the commentary to
En*), and not 'Azaz'el as is generally assumed; the passage in En. 10: 8 iv rots ipyois r'qs
SiSaGKaXlas A^a'qX refers undoubtedly to En. 8:1. Now, it is in connection with 'A^a'el that
mention is made of 'darkness' {GKOTOS En. 10: 4 and 5, synonymous with ^o^os in Jude) and
likewise of the 'great day of judgement'. En. 10: 6. This is the reading in E; in C the genitive
has to be changed into the dative: iv rfj 'qp^ipa rfj pueydXri (rrjs pueydX-qs MS.) TTJS Kpclaews;
iv TTJ ripiipa r-qs KpLGCCos S.
An unusual variant of verse 6 of Jude, without doubt original, may be read in the Speculum
(manuscript of the eighth/ninth century): 'angelos ... in iudicium magni dei (read 'diei', as
in the other witnesses of the Old Latin version) vinculis eos sanctorum angelorum sub tenebras
servavit'; see Vetus Latina . . . der Erzahtei Beuron, vol. 26/1, fasc. 6, 1967, pp. 417-19. The
expression 'holy angels' recalls the reading VTTO ^6ov dyplwv (read dylcjv) dyyeXotJv TeT-qprjKev of
Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus, iii/44, 4, in his quotation of Jude 5-6 (O. Stahlin, GCS 12
(1905), 262; C. Mond6sert, Ch. Matray, and H.-I. Marrou, Sources ChritienneSy 158 (1970), 96).
I see here a reference to the archangels as executors of the punishments ordered by God.
For a second reference to the book of Enoch, at verse 13 of the Epistle of Jude, see the
commentary to En« 2 i 1-3 (En. 88: 3) and to En^ i (En. 86: 1-3). For the direct quotation of
En. 1: 9 in Jude 14-15, see the commentary to En