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Chapter
XXIX.—The Giants: the Flood.
“All things therefore being completed which
are in heaven, and in earth, and in the waters, and the human race also
having multiplied, in the eighth generation, righteous men, who had
lived the life of angels, being allured by the beauty of women, fell
into promiscuous and illicit connections with these;549
| 549 Gen. vi. 2. [Compare with this chapter Homily
VIII. 12–17, where there are many more fanciful
details.—R] | and thenceforth acting in all things
without discretion, and disorderly, they changed the state of human
affairs and the divinely prescribed order of life, so that either by
persuasion or force they compelled all men to sin against God their
Creator. In the ninth generation are born the giants, so called
from of old,550
| 550 The writer here
translates the words of the Septuagint, of οἱ γίγαντες
οἱ ἀπ᾽
αἰῶνος οἱ
ἄνθρωποι οἱ
ὀνομαστοί, illi
qui a seculo nominantur. We have given the translation of our
authorized version. It is likely, however, that the writer
believed the name to imply that they lived to a great age, as is
maintained by Diodorus quoted by Suicer on the word, or he may have
traced the word to γῆ. | not dragon-footed, as
the fables of the Greeks relate, but men of immense bodies, whose
bones, of enormous size, are still shown in some places for
confirmation. But against these the righteous providence of God
brought a flood upon the world, that the earth might be purified from
their pollution, and every place might be turned into a sea by the
destruction of the wicked. Yet there was then found one righteous
man, by name Noah, who, being delivered in an ark with his three sons
and their wives, became the colonizer of the world after the subsiding
of the waters, with those animals and seeds which he had shut up with
him.”
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