· Geʿez

Source edition: charles-1906-enoch

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• 40:2[a] The concrete word is “wings,” which can also refer to extremities or sides. “Faces” is retained as the visionary description rather than silently replaced with “beings.” The repeated “I saw” follows the selected text; Charles notes that some witnesses attach the opening occurrence to the preceding sentence.
• 40:5[a] The participle can mean suspended or hanging upon, and by extension attached to or dependent upon someone. “Cling to” follows this attachment sense; the verse does not say that these chosen ones were crucified.
• 40:6[a] The selected asking, praying and entreating clauses have uneven singular/plural forms. Charles explicitly labels the asking/praying expression and the final entreating form as emendations in printed page81 notes6 and8. This rendering relates the entreaty to the third voice; the final plural expression can also be connected with the dwellers just mentioned. It is a rendering of the selected edited text, not a claim that every manuscript has this wording.
• 40:7[a] The selected word is plural. It designates accusing adversaries, “satans,” not a single named figure. The negative is retained: they are not permitted to enter and accuse the earth’s inhabitants.
• 40:9[a] Mikael, Rufael, Gebriel and Fanuel follow the selected Ethiopic name forms rather than silently substituting their more familiar English spellings. The fourth figure is linked with repentance and hope; the text does not explicitly name a separate office beyond the relation stated here.