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one passage in Genesis, which seems other- 

 wise wholly unintelligible, namely, that in 

 which mention is made of unions between 

 the "Sons of God" and the daughters of 

 men. Our author affirms that for the " Sons 

 of God" we ought to substitute as the true 

 meaning in the original, "the sen^ants of 

 the gods," or in other words the idolatrous 

 races of the world. In like manner the 

 daughters of men should be translated, "the 

 daughters of the Adamite." The passage 

 would thus refer to intermarriages between 

 the children of Adam and the pre-existing 

 idolatrous nations of the world. It is true also 

 that this theory would remove or diminish 

 some other difficulties attending the received 

 interpretation. But on the other hand the 



