Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 11 — Section 1446
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[1551] Eccl. i. 9, 10. [1552] Gen. v. 4-30. [1553] Gen. iv. 17-21. [1554] In Gen. vi. 2 the mss. of the LXX. fluctuate between angeloi tou theou and huioi tou theou. The interpretation of the passage which Cassian here rejects is adopted by Philo and Josephus, the book of Enoch, and several of the early fathers, including Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius and others. The explanation, which Cassian here gives, taking the "sons of God" of the Sethites, and the "daughters of men" of the line of Cain, is apparently first found in Julius Africanus (oi apo tou Se…
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