The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

234 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En« i xxvii
disagreement about their botanical appearance or about their symbiosis: yiveaOai dii6T€pa
iv TO) avTO) TOTTcp Theophr. ix 4, 8; *murra in isdem silvis (where incense trees grow) permixta
arbore nasci tradidere aliqui, plures separatim*, Pliny xii 66. Our Jewish author seems to have
shared the opinion of those who considered incense and myrrh as the products of the same
tree: wovro ydp iK rod avrov SivSpov rov re Xipavwrov ylveadat Kal Tqv apvpvav Theophr. ix
4, 8; *nec non fuere qui e turis arbore utrumque nasci mentirentur', Pliny xii 67.
The participle ]''S7anQ was translated in C by irviovra, 'which exhale'. The Ethiopic, by
fadfdd, implies the Greek 7rA€OV(TA); see Charles, i, p. 69 note 28. This is a fairly obvious
corruption of KXeovra, KXalovra, 'which cry, exude*.
Ll. 14-17 (En. 31: 2-32: i). See the notes to En9 i xii 28-30.
L. 14. On 'tear', = veKrap, see the note to line 6, particularly the reference to DJD iii.
L. 16 (En. 31: 2). pp*TQ is probably just a simple scribal error for ]**pna, which is the
reading of En^,
Ll. 16-18 (En. 32: i). In line 17 'other mountains' En«, 'seven mountains' C and E.
L. 18. In C read axvvov (i.e. axoivov = *1DS) and not axlvov as Charles read it; see En^ i
xii 25, note.
Ll. 18-21 (En. 32: 2). In line 18 the verb n^DIH is equivalent to i68€vaa; see the note to
En^ I xii 2 (En. 26: I).
L. 19. The rendering of 11210^ by cm rds dpxds is explicable by the Greek translation of
LXX,
where mp and HSnp, 'before; East', are often rendered by dpxrj, but only in their
temporal meanings; plural Kar dpxds, equal to Dip, in Ps. 118 (i 19 MT), 152.—The participle
dirixoiv corresponds to ]in3Q; this explanatory word in the Greek was probably added to dn
avrwvy the latter being lost by homoeoteleuton.—The verb nD*?nX is here equivalent to
SUPrjVy but at 3 (line 21) it is equivalent to -^XOov (MS. eXOwv); n31S7X on the other hand is
equivalent to SUPrjv at the same v. 2 (line 20).
L. 20. The phrase 1 HID X*'JU? DpmXl is better preserved in E: 'and I went far from it
(sc. from the Red Sea) and'; thus (ICAT (hxopL-qv) in
aKpwv Kal dno rovrov in C comes probably
from puiKpdv dno rovrov Kal, as suggested by Charles, i, p. 72 note 3. See, however, a second
strange use of in aKpwv in En