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244and 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 presentshape exhibits indications that show that it was composed as late as 110 B.C., in the originalAramaic dialect, by a Palestinian Jew. At least such is the opinion of the French Encyclopaedia.The Quran only mentions Enoch under his surname “Idrīs” -the Arabic form of the Aramaic “Drīsha” being of the same category ofsimple nouns as “Iblis” and “Blīsa.”[1] “ Idris” and “Drīsha” 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-Baydhāwi and Jalālu ’d-Dīn, seem to know that Enoch had studied astronomy, physics, arithmetic,that hewasthe firstwhowrotewith 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).
