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Rh stand around the throne of God" (Rev. v. 11, vii. 11), "whom they worship" (Psalm xcvii. 7; Heb. i. 6; Rev. vii. 11); "and do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His Word" (Ps. ciii. 19, 20).

The word in Dan. iv. 10, 17, 20, is rendered in the Arabic vers. by "vigil"; in the lxx., by, which means nothing in Greek. This figures in the Coptic version of Daniel as (ed. Tattam, p. 298), and  (ed. J. Bardelli, pp. 46, 47). In the Armenian version it is rendered by "" "watching," "vigil," ; which is exactly given in " bodriī" of the ancient Slavonic version. "Watchers," are the "" (of Orac. Sibyll, p. 90), the "vigiles," often mentioned in the "Book of Enoch" (e. g., c. xii.), said of "good Angels,"  "And they did it all with the Saints and with the ‘Watchers’ in those days," of "fallen" ones (ibid. v. 5),  : "O Enoch! scribe of righteousness! go and make known to the ‘Watchers’ that they have left Heaven," etc. It does not, however, occur, we believe, in the "Ascension of Isaiah," which is a book of a probably very early date; nor yet in the "Didascalia Æthiopica;" except as an adjective applied to a "Bishop" (p. 25), etc.

"Sed Vigiles," says J. Morinus, "Syris post