 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.  Genesis to Chronicles - Page xi1815Full view - About this book
 | 1863 - 990 pages
...that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose, (3) And the Lord said, Myspirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also...became mighty men, which were of old men of renown." Then it is added, (5) that God saw the wickedness of man, and, (6) that it repented Him that he had... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Theology - 1863 - 630 pages
...therefore, within an hundred and twenty years he repent him of his sins, I will then surely destroy him. 4. "There were giants in the earth in those days;...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."] — In those days were men monstrous both in stature and conditions ; and not the parents only, but... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 888 pages
...becomes black in old age." — PLIN. Ilkt. Nat. 1. vn. c. 2. — See also 1. xv. c. 34. GENESIS VI. 4. There were giants in the earth in those days ;...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. The tradition of the existence of giants in the earliest ages of the world is common both to the historians... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...example, very generally believed that these were the bones of the antediluvians mentioned in Genesis vi. 4. — "There were giants in the earth in those days;...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." But the form which brings the pre-Adamic period into closest relation with the present epoch, is that... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 800 pages
...were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose." And the 4th verse reads, "And there were giants in the earth in those days. And also after...became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown." — By so doing you will greatly oblige, a PUDDLER. ANSWER : — We understand the sons of God to mean... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1868 - 524 pages
...had been men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth." There were Giants in the earth in those days : and also after...[became] mighty men which \were~\ of old, men of renown. And God saw, etc. The statement of the passage then is simply this : — That there were two causes... | |
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