The Book of Enoch

...G, M, and nine manuscripts; xc. 19, where G, M, and eight manuscripts; xciii. 10, where G, M, and seven manuscripts.

I will adduce one more point under this head. In xcviii. 2, all manuscripts except G, G¹, and M agree in giving a vox nulla original: "vox nulla" (Latin); "non-existent word" or "meaningless expression". The agreement of these later manuscripts in presenting a counterfeit word points either to a later recension or to the same common ancestry.

§ 3. GREEK VERSION.

Only fragments of this version have come down to us, preserved in the Chronography of George Syncellus (about 800 A.D.). These are vi—ix. 4; viii. 4—x. 14; xv. 8—xvi. 1; and, in a Vatican manuscript (Codex Gr. 1809) published by Mai in the original: "Patrum Nova Bibliotheca" (Latin); "New Library of the Fathers", vol. ii. Only lxxxix. 42—49 is found in this manuscript. I have printed these fragments in parallel columns with the translation from the Ethiopic.

The Greek version has, no doubt, undergone corruption in the process of transmission; yet in many respects, it presents a more faithful text than the Ethiopic. We might infer this to some extent from what has gone before, and the following instances where it undoubtedly preserves the truer reading will more than confirm this view: vi. 6; viii. 1; ix. 6, 10; x. 14; xv. 11; lxxxix. 45, 48. In these instances, we have followed the Greek version against all the Ethiopic manuscripts. The Greek version is by no means free from corruption.

As the Greek fragment which has lately been discovered at Cairo has not yet been published, I have not been able to avail myself of it.

§ 4. EMENDATIONS.

The text presented by the best manuscripts is still far from perfect and contains many primitive errors. Some of these have been successfully amended by Dillmann and Hallévi. I have introduced into the text emendations by Dillmann in the following passages: lvi. 7; lxii. 2; xc. 38; and emendations by Hallévi in lxvii. 13; lxxvii. 1—3; ci. 4, 9; and emendations of my own in xvi. 1; xli. 9; xlvi. 2; lx. 6, 19, 24; lxiii. 7;