Giants_in_the_Bible

GIANTS IN THE BIBLE
PROF. M. M. NINAN
have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have
defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women have borne giants,
and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness
CHAPTER X.
1. Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech,
and said to him:
2. 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is
approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the
whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.
3. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the
generations of the world.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan identifies the nephilim as Shemihaza
and the angels in the name list from
1 Enoch. as the angels that fell.
There are also allusions to these descendants in the
deutero-canonical books of Judith , Sirach 16:7, Baruch 3:26 –
28, and Wisdom of Solomon 14:6, and in the nondeuterocanonical
3 Maccabees 2:4. In the New Testament
Epistle of Jude 14 – 15 cites from 1 Enoch 1:9,
To most commentators this confirms that Jude regarded the
Enochic interpretations of Genesis 6 as correct. The reason for
this is the broad understanding of Angels as every being which
are spiritual or has the Spirit within them through which they have
contact with the Holy Spirit.
The argument against the interpretation that the fathers of Nephilims were angels is essentially with
the explanation who angels are by Jesus and their nature.
First: Jesus taught that angels do not marry : "For in the resurrection they [humans] neither marry nor
are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven" (Matthew 22:30; see Mark 12:25).
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