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of God intermarryittg with the daugliters of men, all man- 

 kind became corrupt ; there existed a race of ambitious and 

 powerful men, robbers, whom the Septuagint and Vulgate 

 call giants,* heroes celebrated in ancient times, but odious to 

 God, who determined to exterminate them. 



Upon this foundation the Greeks, and particularly Hesiod, 

 and the Cyclic pdets, grounded their wild fictions of wars, 

 which the giants and Titans made on the Gods, Hesiod, 

 Theog. V. 630, G64, with which Pliilo Byblius, though 

 himself an Heathen, justly reproaches them, Euseb. 59 1 

 hence also their various tales of Gods falling in- love with 

 women. 



According to Moses, the children of God became 

 enamoured of the daughters of men, because they were 

 handsome ; but why should they be handsomer than the 

 daughters of Seth ? The truth seems to be that they were 

 more seductive and artful. Sanchoniatho . relates that the 

 daughters of these giants were extremely libertine. 



Sanchoniatho mentions these giants, and says they were 

 men of a wonderful size, but bestows no censure on their 

 conduct, and makes no mention of the flood by which they 

 were destroyed ; hence it is highly probable that Cham's 

 wife, fi'om whom the Phenicians descended, was herself a, 

 descendant of Cain, and concealed every circumstance that 

 tended to their disgrace. Neither does Hesiod, who bor- 



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* RosenmuUer insists that there is no necessity for regarding them as men of a 

 size superior to the common, and so Datliius. 



