Q What were these Giants that are here men∣tioned?
A. They were men of great stature of bo∣die,
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A. They were men of great stature of bo∣die,
and therefore strong and powerfull; as also cruell, wicked, ambitious: in Greeke they are called Gigantes, that is, engendred of the Earth; not as though they were the sonnes of the Earth, as the Poets thought, but because of a great deale of earthly substance they carryed about in their bodyes; as also, in respect of their minds, being earthly-minded: in Hebrew they are cal∣led Nephilim, from falling, because as Apostates they fell from God; and being cruell, they fell on men, and caused many, by feare, to fall before them.