“CHAPTER 6
(2448 B.C.)
WICKEDNESS OF MANKIND
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born unto them (the events of this Chapter probably begin at about the time of Enoch, which was about a thousand years before the flood. There were, no doubt, several millions of people on the face of the Earth at that time. Verse 1 is not meant to imply that the births of baby girls were more than that of baby boys, but is rather meant to set up the narrative for that which is about to be said),
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose (the “sons of ”“God” portrayed here refer to fallen Angels, which had thrown in their lot with Lucifer, who led a revolution against God some time in eternity past; in order to spoil the human lineage through which the Messiah would ultimately come, they would seek to corrupt that lineage, and to do so by marrying the “daughters of men,” thereby producing a mongrel race, so to speak, of which at least some of these offspring turned out to be “giants”; at any rate, all who were the result of such a union were tainted; the term “sons of God” in the Old Testament, at least as it is used here, is never used of human beings, but always of Angels, whether righteous or fallen [Job 1:6; 2:1]; in his short Epistle, Jude mentions these particular “Angels.” He said that they “kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation”; he then said what their sin was: “going after strange flesh.” Concerning this, Jude also said that God “has reserved [them] in everlasting chains unto darkness unto the Judgment of the great day” [Jude, Vss. 6-7]).
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The Expositor’s Study Bible
Jimmy Swaggart
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