Genesis 6:4 (WEB)
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Fathers and councils · 5
Eusebius of Caesarea
“And there is also a work of his On Emigration,and one On the life of a Wise Man made perfect in Righteousness, or On unwritten Laws;and still further the work On Giants or On the Immutability of God,and a first, second, third, fourth and fifth book On the proposition, that Dreams according to Moses are sent by God.” — editor's note: περὶ γιγ€ντων, ἢ περὶ τοῦ μὴ τρέπεσθαι τὸ θεῖον. Upon Gen. vi. 1–4 and 4–12. The two parts of this work, both of which are still extant, form really but one…
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Jerome
“Afterwards sin gradually grew more and more virulent, till the ungodliness of the giants brought in its train the shipwreck of the whole world.” — editor's note: Gen. vi. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became the giants, men of renown.”” — editor's note: Gen. vi. 1–4. Lactantius (Inst. ii. 15), Sulpicius Severus (Hist. i. 2), and others suppose from this passage that angels had commerce with the daughters of…
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Tertullian
“If he means the fallen angels of the Creator, there is great propriety in his meaning.” — editor's note: See more concerning these in chap. xviii. of this book. Comp. Gen. vi. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“But “the spiritual wickedness” did not signify the Creator, because of the apostle’s additional description, “in heavenly places;” for the apostle was quite aware that “spiritual wickedness” had been at work in heavenly places, when angels were entrapped into sin by the daughters of men.” — editor's note: Gen. vi. 1–4. See also Tertullian, De Idol. 9; De Habit. Mul. 2; De Cultu Femin. 10; De Vel. Virg. 7; Apolog. 22. See also Augustin, De Civit. Dei. xv. 23.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in The City of God XV.23.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.