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(3). Enoch xlvi. 4 - 8.
A non-Muslim scholar can never explain the vision of
a Sophee - or a Seer. He will - as all of them do -
bring down the vision to the Maccabees and the King
Antiochus Epiphanes in the middle of the second century
B.C., when the Deliverer comes with a tremendous truncheon
or scepter and strikes right and left upon the birds and
the beasts, making a great slaughter among them; the earth,
opening its mouth, swallows them in; and the rest take to
flight. Then swords are distributed among the sheep, and
a white bull leads them on in perfect peace and security.
As to the fifth book, it contains religious and moral
exhortations. The whole work in its present shape exhibits
indications which show that it was composed as late as
A non-Muslim scholar can never explain the vision of
a Sophee - or a Seer. He will - as all of them do -
bring down the vision to the Maccabees and the King
Antiochus Epiphanes in the middle of the second century
B.C., when the Deliverer comes with a tremendous truncheon
or scepter and strikes right and left upon the birds and
the beasts, making a great slaughter among them; the earth,
opening its mouth, swallows them in; and the rest take to
flight. Then swords are distributed among the sheep, and
a white bull leads them on in perfect peace and security.
As to the fifth book, it contains religious and moral
exhortations. The whole work in its present shape exhibits
indications which show that it was composed as late as