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and other carnivorous animals; but a gallant “Ram”
resists with great courage and valour. It is then that “the
Son of Man,” who is the real master or owner of the
flock, comes forth to deliver his flock. 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 sceptre
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 that show that it was composed as late as 110
B.C., in the original Aramaic dialect, by a Palestinian Jew.
At least such is the opinion of the French Encyclopaedia.

The Quran only mentions Enoch under his surname
“Idris” -the Arabic form of the Aramaic “Drisha” being of
the same category of simple nouns as “Iblis” and “Blisa.”[1]
“ Idris” and “Drisha” signify a man of great learning, a
scholar and an erudite, from “darash” (Arabic “darisa”).
The Quranic text says: “And remember Idris in the same
book; for he was a just person and a prophet; and We
exalted him to a high place” ( Mary 19:57) [2]

The Muslim commentators, Al-Baydhawi and Jalalu
’d-Din, seem to know that Enoch had studied astronomy,
physics, arithmetic, that he was the first who wrote with the
pen, and that “Idris” signifies a man of much knowledge,
thus showing that the Apocalypse of Enoch had not been

[1] “Iblis,” the Arabic form the Aramaic “Blisa,” an epithet given to the devil which
means the “Bruised One” (the author).
[2] Quran, 19. Mary: 56. And We raised him to a lofty station, 57 . Also mention in
the Book the case of Idris: He was a man of truth (and sincerity), (and) a prophet.
(Editors).