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and heal the earth which the Watchers have destroyed, and proclaim the healing of the plague, so that they may heal the plague and all the sons of men may not perish through the mystery that the Watchers have spoken and taught their sons, and all the earth has been laid waste by the works of the teaching of Azazel; and upon it write all the sins. And to Gabriel he said: Go, Gabriel, against the giants, against the bastards, against the sons of fornication, and destroy the sons of the Watchers from among the sons of men. Send them against one another, from them against themselves, in war and in destruction, and length of days shall not be theirs, and every request is not for their fathers, because they hope to live an eternal life, and that each of them will live 500 years. And to Michael he said: Go, Michael, bind Semjaza and the others with him, who have mingled with the daugh 26 ters of men to be defiled with them in their uncleanness. And when their sons have been slaughtered and they see the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them for 70 generations in the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgment, until the day of the completion of the end, until the judgment of the age of ages is accomplished. Then they will be carried off into the abyss of fire and into torment and into the prison of eternal confinement. And whoever is condemned and destroyed from now on, will be bound with them until the completion of their generation. And after other things: and now the giants who were born from spirits and flesh they will call them evil spirits on the earth, because their dwelling will be upon the earth. They will be evil spirits, the spirits that have come forth from the body of their flesh, because from men they were made, and from the holy Watchers is the beginning of their creation and the beginning of their foundation. Evil spirits will be upon the earth, the spirits of the giants pasturing, doing wrong, destroying, falling upon and wrestling and casting down upon the earth and causing panic and eating nothing, but fasting and making apparitions and thirsting and stumbling. And the spirits will rise up against the sons of men and of women, because they have come forth from them. And from the day of the time of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, the Naphileim, the mighty ones of the earth, the great renowned ones, the spirits proceeding from their soul, as from the flesh they will be, destroying without judgment, thus they will destroy until the day of completion, until the great judgment, in which the great age will be completed, it will be completed once and for all together. And again: But from the mountain on which they swore and anathematized one another, that for ever cold and snow and frost and dew shall not depart from it nor descend upon it, except it shall descend upon it as a curse, until the day of the great judgment. In that time it will be burned and humbled and will be burning and melting like wax from fire, so it will be burned for all its works. And now I say to you, sons of men: great wrath is 27 against you, against your sons, and this wrath will not cease from you until the time of the slaughter of your sons. and your beloved ones will perish and your honored ones will die from all the earth, because all the days of their life from now on will not be more than 120 years. and do not expect to live for more years; for there is for them no way of escape from now on because of the wrath, with which the king of all ages is wroth with you; do not suppose that you will escape these things. And these things are from the first book of Enoch concerning the Watchers, although one must not pay complete attention to apocryphal works, especially the more simple-minded, both because they contain some superfluous things and things foreign to the ecclesiastical tradition and because they have been adulterated by Jews and heretics. Nevertheless, the blessed Paul also rarely made use of some apocryphal sayings, as when

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καὶ ἴασαι τὴν γῆν ἣν ἠφάνισαν οἱ ἐγρήγοροι, καὶ τὴν ἴασιν τῆς πληγῆς δήλωσον, ἵνα ἰάσωνται τὴν πληγὴν καὶ μὴ ἀπόλωνται πάντες οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν τῷ μυστηρίῳ ὃ εἶπον οἱ ἐγρήγοροι καὶ ἐδίδαξαν τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτῶν, καὶ ἠρημώθη πᾶσα ἡ γῆ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῆς διδασκαλίας Ἀζαήλ· καὶ ἐπ' αὐτῇ γράψον πάσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας. καὶ τῷ Γαβριὴλ εἶπε· πορεύου, Γαβριήλ, ἐπὶ τοὺς γίγαντας, ἐπὶ τοὺς κιβδήλους, ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς πορ νείας, καὶ ἀπόλεσον τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἐγρηγόρων ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν τῶν ἀνθρώ πων. πέμψον αὐτοὺς εἰς ἀλλήλους, ἐξ αὐτῶν εἰς αὐτούς, ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ ἐν ἀπωλείᾳ, καὶ μακρότης ἡμερῶν οὐκ ἔσται αὐτοῖς, καὶ πᾶσα ἐρώτησις οὐκ ἔστι τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐλπίζουσι ζῆσαι ζωὴν αἰώνιον, καὶ ὅτι ζήσεται ἕκαστος αὐτῶν ἔτη φʹ. καὶ τῷ Μιχαὴλ εἶπε· πορεύου, Μιχαήλ, δῆσον Σεμιαζᾶν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους σὺν αὐτῷ, τοὺς συμμιγέντας ταῖς θυγα 26 τράσι τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοῦ μιανθῆναι ἐν αὐταῖς ἐν τῇ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ αὐτῶν. καὶ ὅταν κατασφαγῶσιν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν καὶ ἴδωσι τὴν ἀπώλειαν τῶν ἀγαπη τῶν αὐτῶν, δῆσον αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ οʹ γενεὰς εἰς τὰς νάπας τῆς γῆς, μέχρι ἡμέρας κρίσεως αὐτῶν, μέχρι ἡμέρας τελειώσεως τελεσμοῦ, ἕως συντελεσθῇ κρίμα τοῦ αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων. τότε ἀπενεχθήσονται εἰς τὸ χάος τοῦ πυρὸς καὶ εἰς τὴν βάσανον καὶ εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον τῆς συγκλείσεως τοῦ αἰῶνος. καὶ ὃς ἂν κατακριθῇ καὶ ἀφανισθῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν, μετ' αὐτῶν δεθήσεται μέχρι τελειώσεως γενεᾶς αὐτῶν. Καὶ μεθ' ἕτερα· καὶ νῦν οἱ γίγαντες οἱ γεννηθέντες ἀπὸ πνευμάτων καὶ σαρκὸς πνεύματα πονηρὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καλέσουσιν αὐτούς, ὅτι ἡ κατοίκησις αὐτῶν ἔσται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. πνεύματα πονηρὰ ἔσονται, τὰ πνεύματα ἐξελη λυθότα ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτῶν, διότι ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐγένοντο, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων τῶν ἐγρηγόρων ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς κτίσεως αὐτῶν καὶ ἀρχὴ θεμελίου. πνεύματα πονηρὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἔσονται, τὰ πνεύματα τῶν γιγάντων νεμόμενα, ἀδικοῦντα, ἀφανίζοντα, ἐμπίπτοντα καὶ συμπαλαίοντα καὶ ῥιπτοῦντα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ δρόμους ποιοῦντα καὶ μηδὲν ἐσθίοντα, ἀλλ' ἀσιτοῦντα καὶ φάσματα ποιοῦντα καὶ διψῶντα καὶ προσκόπτοντα. καὶ ἐξαναστήσονται τὰ πνεύματα ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ τῶν γυ ναικῶν, ὅτι ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐξεληλύθασι. Καὶ ἀπὸ ἡμέρας καιροῦ σφαγῆς καὶ ἀπωλείας καὶ θανάτου τῶν γιγάν των Ναφιλείμ, οἱ ἰσχυροὶ τῆς γῆς, οἱ μεγάλοι ὀνομαστοί, τὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἐκπορευόμενα ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῶν, ὡς ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς ἔσονται, ἀφανί ζοντα χωρὶς κρίσεως, οὕτως ἀφανίσουσι μέχρις ἡμέρας τῆς τελειώσεως, ἕως τῆς κρίσεως τῆς μεγάλης, ἐν ᾗ ὁ αἰὼν ὁ μέγας τελεσθήσεται, ἐφ' ἅπαξ ὁμοῦ τελεσθήσεται. Καὶ αὖθις· παρὰ δὲ τοῦ ὄρους ἐν ᾧ ὤμοσαν καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισαν πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτῶν, ὅτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα οὐ μὴ ἀποστῇ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ ψῦχος καὶ χιὼν καὶ πάχνη καὶ δρόσος οὐ μὴ καταβῇ εἰς αὐτό, εἰ μὴ εἰς κατάραν καταβήσεται ἐπ' αὐτό, μέχρις ἡμέρας κρίσεως τῆς μεγάλης. ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ κατακαυθήσεται καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται καὶ ἔσται κατακαιόμενον καὶ τηκόμενον ὡς κηρὸς ἀπὸ πυρός, οὕτως κατακαήσεται περὶ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ. καὶ νῦν ἐγὼ λέγω ὑμῖν υἱοῖς ἀνθρώπων· ὀργὴ μεγάλη 27 καθ' ὑμῶν, κατὰ τῶν υἱῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ οὐ παύσεται ἡ ὀργὴ αὕτη ἀφ' ὑμῶν μέχρι καιροῦ σφαγῆς τῶν υἱῶν ὑμῶν. καὶ ἀπολοῦνται οἱ ἀγαπητοὶ ὑμῶν καὶ ἀποθανοῦνται οἱ ἔντιμοι ὑμῶν ἀπὸ πάσης τῆς γῆς, ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι τῆς ζωῆς αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν οὐ μὴ ἔσονται πλείω τῶν ρκʹ ἐτῶν. καὶ μὴ δόξητε ἔτι ζῆσαι ἐπὶ πλείονα ἔτη· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς πᾶσα ὁδὸς ἐκ φεύξεως ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν διὰ τὴν ὀργήν, ἣν ὠργίσθη ὑμῖν ὁ βασιλεὺς πάντων τῶν αἰώνων· μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἐκφεύξεσθε ταῦτα. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἐκ τοῦ πρώτου βιβλίου Ἐνὼχ περὶ τῶν ἐγρηγόρων, εἰ καὶ μὴ τελείως χρὴ προσέχειν ἀποκρύφοις μάλιστα τοὺς ἁπλουστέρους διά τε τὸ περιττά τινα καὶ ἀτριβῆ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς παραδόσεως ἔχειν καὶ διὰ τὸ νενοθεῦσθαι αὐτὰ ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων καὶ αἱρετικῶν. πλὴν καὶ ὁ μακάριος Παῦλος σπανίως ἐχρήσατό τισιν ἐξ ἀποκρύφων χρήσεσιν, ὡς ὅταν