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.Aram).Ebla may be corrupted from Lebna, i.e.HTR; Eccl.vi.10; Isa.xxx.26.Benaze is explained by Hoffmann as HTR, i.e.son of the half, i.e.the half moon; but Dillmann thinks of HTR.Erae is the ordinary HTR.4.Cf.72:37; 73:3.This portion of light the moon receives gradually.—5.Cf.72:5.—6.On the topic commenced here and continued to verse 17, cf.73:4-74:2.On the first day the moon receives the one half of the one seventh part of the light of the sun.—7.But it happens that it takes the moon fifteen days to become full, and in this case she receives three times five portions, i.e.fifteen fourteenths, of light.—8.In this case, in the decrease she decreases on the first day from fifteen portions to fourteen, etc.—9.Evidently flatly contradicts plain statements made elsewhere.The verse is probably an interpolation.—10.This second, or other, law refers to the relative positions of sun and moon.—11.The full moon.—12.Thenew moon.—15, 16.Length of the months.CHAP.79.Methuselah; cf.76:14.—2.For every time; cf.78:15, 16.Every government, i.e.of the leaders of the stars; cf.chap.82.—3, 4 are both objects of he showed me, vs.2.—5.Cf.74:10-17.CHAP.80.But all these laws, now so firm and fixed, shall be set entirely aside on account of the sinners.The revolution in the laws of nature is recognized by other writers also as the sign of the last times; cf.3 Sibyl.795-807; 2 Macc.v.2, 3; 4 Ezra v.1-13; vi.7-28; viii.63-ix.6; xiv.15-17.Those that revolve, either winds, 72:5; 73:2, or stars.—2.In 72:1 it has been stated that these laws should continue to the time of a new creation.But, on account of their sins, men have occasioned a change in these laws.As a punishment from God these laws are changed; cf.Jer.v.22-25.Cf.Book of Jubilees, chap.23.This verse is probably the basis of Barnabae Epistola, iv.3.—5.4 Ezra says that in the last times the sun will shine at night and the moon by day.—7.The effect of this change in the laws of nature will, instead of bringing about the sinners’ return to God, only cause them to sin more, by learning to worship them as stars; cf.similar sentiment in Sibyl.Prooem.I.25.—8.Then after these certain signs of the approaching evil the judgment will come; cf.on the whole Matt.xxiv.29; Luke xxi.25, 26.CHAP.81.An account of the end of his trip.First, however, he is allowed to see the tablets of heaven.Tablets; cf.93:2; 103:2; 106:19 (107:1; 108:7); mentioned frequently in the Book of the Jubilees, are the GTRof the Test.XII.Patriarcharum.Synonymes are writing, book, and books, 81:1, 2; 93:1, 3; 103:2, 3; 108:7; cf.104:1.The idea from passages like Ex.xxv.and xxvi.; xxxii.32; Ps.lxix.28; cxxxix.16; Dan.xii.1; cf.Harnack on Past.Her.Vis.1, 3, 2.—2.Not only the deeds of men, but even their names—for this is meant by and all the children —are recorded; cf.82:1; 83:10—3.Cf.note on 22:14 and Apoc.Bar.xxiv.2.Patience, that notwithstanding the record of men’s sin in heaven God was so slow in his judgment.—4.Yet the judgment shall come, and therefore he is to be esteemed happy whose name is not recorded in the book of iniquity.It should be noticed here that the author teaches a retribution after death: cf.22:12, 13.—5.From 87:2, 3; 90:31 we learn that the expression the other three angels is used to distinguish three archangels from Michael as the head and chief.If the author of the Parables had written this we could know the names of these three (cf.chap.40), but our author nowhere states that there were but four archangels.The passage is a strange one, and points to an omission in the previous verses.Compared with the justice of God no flesh is just before him; cf.Job iv.17.The creature is nothing compared with the Creator.Methuselah, cf.76:14.—6.Strengthened, i.e.rested from the effects of thy travels; cf.Dan.viii.16-19.But this year shall be devoted to instructing his children in the important secrets he has received.—7.Although there is so much wickedness, as the records in heaven show, yet the generation of the just will not die out, and in the Messianic times after the period of the sinners, the just will rejoice together.—8.As he is speaking of the final judgment, this sinking refers to their sinking in the valley of Hinnom; cf.chap.26 and 27.—9.Death, indeed, comes to the just also on account of the sinners; but there is a retribution after death, vs.4, and these just shall rise again, 22:12, 13; Gathered, cf.Isa.lvii.1 and 2 Kings xxii.20; Job iii.13; Wisd.iv.7-14.Lord of the world, cf.note on 1:3.CHAP.82.Address of Enoch himself.—2.Wisdom, cf.note on 37:1; cf.Ps.lxxviii.5, 6.Above thought, i.e
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