 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
 | John Kitto - 1849 - 842 pages
...supernatural and the divine. 1. In Gen. vi. 4, we have the first mention of giants — ' There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." In our judgment the bearing of this passage obviously favours the common notion of giants, and that... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1849 - 646 pages
...nation as this ?" It was so with the old world before the deluge came on, Gen. vi. 4, 11. " There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after...became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. The earth also was corrupt before God ; and the earth was filled with violence." It is so with us at... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1850 - 496 pages
...with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be a 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 expression, " sons of God" is rendered in some of the manuscripts of that ancient Greek * Sce... | |
 | Elias De La Roche Rendell - 1851 - 334 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." (Gen. vi. 4.) The most accomplished scholars admit, that the original term here translated giants,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 pages
...God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. (4) There were giants in the earth in those days ;...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Job, ii., 1 . Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,... | |
 | 1853 - 1110 pages
...and he died. shall not always strive with man, dfor that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the...they bare children to them, the same became mighty e ch. 8. 21. Deut. 29. 19. Prov. 6. 18. Matt. 15. 19. 2469. f See Num. 23. 19. 1 Sam. 15. 11, 29. 2... | |
 | Church of England - 1855 - 844 pages
...with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were pass after these JL\. things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said And GOD saw that the wickedness of man teas great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts... | |
 | 1855 - 422 pages
...patient love ! VEB. 4. — " There were giants in the earth in those days [Heb., the Nepheelim were on the earth in those days] : and also after that when...became mighty men which were of old men of renown." * Earth's wickedness had long been on the increase. There had been mighty men (like Lamech before,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1855 - 676 pages
...which they chose. 3 And the LOUD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also it . 27 The generations of Teralt tlie father of Abram....'language, and of one 'speech. 2 And it came to pass, as icere of old, men of renown. 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that... | |
 | John Macfarlane - 1856 - 84 pages
...God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they b took them wives of all which they chose. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and...became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 0 And it ^ repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it A grieved him at his heart.... | |
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