| Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 Seiten
...name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born. And it came to pass, when men began to mul. tiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born...were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose ; there were giants in the earth in those days, the same became mighty men, which were of old... | |
| 1828 - 560 Seiten
...had done its best. Thus it is that we only turn over four leaves in the Bible before we are informed that " the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose." Here then, it seems, match-making began. worth was Mr. Harland, of Sutton Hall, in Yorkshire,... | |
| 1829 - 1012 Seiten
...to pass, when men began L to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were horn unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh :... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 Seiten
...1,-iken the subject from the second verse of the filh chapter of Genesis : • And it came to pass, that the sons of ' God saw the daughters of men that...• lair; and they took them wives of all which they hose. » The two poets presumed that the Sons of God were angels, which opinion 1s abo entertained... | |
| 1829 - 308 Seiten
...we beheld the great changes of which Enoch had prophesied. In the days of Enoch, men had multiplied on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. The select band of youth, who had obtained the name of the Sons of God, by their pure lives, and their... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 632 Seiten
...joined with the wicked world, principally by means of intermarriages with them ; as Gen. vi. 1, 2, 4. "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose. — There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 Seiten
...Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. LESSON VI. GENESIS, CHAP. vi. AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on...were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh :... | |
| Thomas Thomson - 1830 - 696 Seiten
...extravagant opinion, obviously founded on a misunderstanding of a passage in the sixth chapter of Genesis. " And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose. — There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God... | |
| 1831 - 510 Seiten
...following chapters of the book of Genesis contain the awful history of the flood. It commences thus : ' And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose.' ' Having more respect,' says the note in the Genevan Bible of 1599, *to their beauty, and to... | |
| 1838 - 508 Seiten
...the evil spirits. This is based on the following passage in Gen. vi, 1,2: " And it came to pass, that when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,...were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.- To mention this opinion is to refute it; its own absurdity, if fiot profanity, is its overthrow.... | |
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