 | Elias De la Roche Rendell - 1864 - 352 pages
...circumstance that, towards the closing of the antediluvian period, we should be informed that " there were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." * The most accomplished scholars admit that the original term, here translated giants, does not necessarily... | |
 | Melancthon Williams Jacobus - Bible - 1865 - 336 pages
...that is carnal, Rom. 8. A perfect agreement is found, therefore, in the terms here used throughout. We 4 There were giants in the earth in those days ; and...became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. may read, "My Spirit shall not always be humbled in man, in his erring — he is flesh." If And his... | |
 | John Kitto - 1866 - 688 pages
...; and they took them wives of all which they chose.' And again : ' There were giants (nephilim) on the earth in those days ; and also after that, when...became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.' It is to be regretted that a passage which, were it correctly understood, might be found to throw considerable... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...ever ; thou liest like a ship cast up by the waves upon some high rock, where the tide 'There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts... | |
 | Richard J. Hewitt - Religion - 2004 - 278 pages
...considering the widespread knowledge of God and His ways also in the earth? By a third factor: "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown" (v.4) Here we have the introduction of a very controversial topic. Who were these "sons of God"? What... | |
 | J. B. Thomas - Religion - 2004 - 238 pages
...with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. /" There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." The "Beni ha Elohim" [Sons of God] "took" [against their will - by force] all the women on the planet... | |
 | Donald Tyson - Fiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose . . . There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after...the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."6 In the Book of Enoch, a class of angels known as Watchers that was set by God to watch over... | |
 | Heinrich von Kleist - Fiction - 2004 - 474 pages
...It was not staged until 1899. The essential structure of the story is very ancient. See Genesis 6,4: 'when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.' Thus, in Greek mythology, Zeus fathers Heracles on Alcmene. That story is told in the Odyssey, Book... | |
 | D. J. Bahr - Religion - 2005 - 355 pages
...said, My spirit shaE not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4. There were giants in...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts... | |
 | Michael Rowles - Christianity - 2005 - 272 pages
...reluctant, the old King James Version of 1611 translating the word Nephilim as 'giants' 81 : There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4 KJV) Unfortunately, the King James Bible translators (and others) may be simply guessing... | |
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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 mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 
