1 Enoch 6:2

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And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’Cf. xiii. 8, xiv. 3, .xxxix. 1. See xv. 1-7. Cf ‘sons of the holy angels’ lxxi. 1, and note. The entire myth of the angels and the daughters of men in Enoch arises from Gen. vi. 1-4: ‘the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men.’ This refers not to alliances between Sethites and Cainites, but to an early Persian (?) myth to the effect that before Zoroaster's coming demons had corrupted the earth and allied themselves with women (Bousset, Rel. d. Jud. 382, 560). The original LXX rendering for ‘sons of God’ was γγελοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, as in Philo, de Gigantibus, Justin Martyr, Apol. ii. 5, Eusebius, Augustine, and Ambrose. On the myths see Griinbaum in ZDMG xxxi. 225 ff., and for statements dependent on this account in Enoch, or harmonizing with it, cf. Jub. iv. 15, v. 1 seqq.; Test. Reub. v. 6, 7, Test. Naph. iii. 5, 2 En. vii, xviii, Jude 6, 2 Pet. ii. 4; Joseph, Ant. i. 3. 1; Philo, de Gigantibus; Justin Martyr, Apol. i. 5; Ps. Clement, Hom. viii. 13; Clem. Alex. Strom. v. 1. 10; Tert. de Virg. Veland. vii; Adv. Marcion. v. 18; De Idol. ix; Lact. Instit. ii. 15; Commodian, Instruct. i. 3. In the De Civ. Dei xv. 23 Augustine combats this view and denies the inspiration of Enoch which Tertullian had upheld.