The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. III. Of the Phrase The Sons of God, Gen. 6. and Iob 1. (Book 3)

ALL take this Phrase in Job, to mean the Angels, and truly: in which sense while they have taken it in the sixth of Genesis, they spoil all: For hence they think, that Angels lay with Women and begat Children. So can Jarchi almost find in his heart to think, and so Tertullian, Lactantius and others. Some tell what evil Arts. these An∣gels taught Women, and how they begat mighty Children of them. How far this con∣ceit is from true Philosophy, let Aristotle censure. Merlin in Geffry Monmouth is re∣corded to be such another hatch, believe it who list. His vein of Prophecying can make Alanus de Insulis think it is so, but I must needs confess, it comes not into my Creed. As some conceit that the fallen Angels or Devils here begat Children of Women; so the Jews most wickedly fable, that Adam begat Children of Devils. Those hundred and thirty years say they, that Adam was separated from Eve, Devils came to him, and he engendered with them, and begat Devils, and Spirits and Friends. And again; Four women are the mothers of Shedhim or Devils, Lilith, Naamah, Ogereth and Mahlath. I believe both these alike, for I believe that neither is likely. Both the Chaldees Onkelos and Jonathan render the sons of Elo∣him the sons of the Potentates or Judges, taking the word Elohim in the same sense that it is taken, in the middlemost verse of the book of Exodus, cap. 22. 28. Thou shalt not curse Elohim, or the Judges. This opinion is far better than the former, but Christians have a better than this. That the House and Progeny of holy Seth, are the Sons of God, or the Church: and the brood of Cains females were the Daughters of Men. Cypriano di valera, in his Spanish Translation of Gen. 4. and the last verse▪ translates it thus, Entonces commenciaron llamarse. Then begun men to be called by the name of God, or by the name of

the Lord: And in the Margin he explains himself thus, that then the Men of Seths House began to be a Publick Church, and to be distinguished from Cains Family, and to be called the sons of God, Gen. 6. 2.