Note 503 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES

Charles, op. cit. p. 108. He there puts the date of the Similitudes, as this portion of the Book of Enoch is called, about a quarter of a century before the Parthian invasion. In that case, the prediction in the text would be about the only instance of fulfilled political prophecy known. But the discrepancy is doubtless to be explained by the theory of interpolation after the event.