Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-07

and Semyaza who was their leader sale
unto them; fear we will not indeed agree
to do this deed and 1 alone shall have to pay
the penalty of a great sin And they all an.
swered him and said Let us swear an oath
and bind all ourselves by mutual impreca-
tons not TO abandon this plan but to do this
thing
Then sware they altogether and bound
themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
And they were in all two hundred who de-
scended in the days of Jared on the summit
of Mount Hermon.
And all the others together with them
took unto themselves wives and each chose
for himself and they began to go into
them and to defile themselves with them and
they taught them charms and entertainments
and the cutting of roots and made them ac-
quainted with plants. And they became with
child and they bare great giants whose height
was 5000 ellis, who consumed all the acquisi-
tions of men,"
And the Lord said again to Raphael:
Bind Azazel hand and foot and cast him into
the darkness and make an opening in the
desert which is in Dudael and cast him therein
And place upon him rough and jagged rocks
and cover hm~with darkness and let him
abide there for ever and cover his face that
he may not see light. And on the day Of the
great judgment he shall be cast into the
fire.
"And heal the earth which the angels have
corrupted -. that all the children Of men
may not perish through all the secret things
that the Watchers have disclosed and have
taught their sons. And the whole earth has
been corrupted by the works that were taught
Azazel; to him ascribe all sim"
"And to Gabriel said Che Lord: Proceed
against the unlawful offspring of women and
angels and reprobates and against the chill
dren of unlawfulness and destroy the children
of the Watchers from amongst men Go,
bind SemyaZa and his associates who have
united themselves with women SO as to have
defied themselves with them in all their
cleanness Bind them fast for 20 genera
tons in the valleys of the earth till the day
of judgment and their contamination . In
those days they shall be led off to the abyss
of fire to the torment and prison in which
they shall be confined for ever"
st. Augustine, the Church Father, writing
in the fourth century of the Christian Era,
commented follows:
But certainly could by no means believe
that Gods holy angels could at that time have
fallen nor can 1 think that 1t is of them that
the Apostle Peter said, For If God spared. not
the angels that sinned, but cast them down to
hell :. / think he rather speaks Of those
who first apostatiZed from God, along with
their chief, the devil, who enviously deceived
the first man under the form of a serpent
But the same Holy Scripture affords the most
ample testimony that even godly men have
been-ea angels.
But some are moved by the fact that we
have read that the fruits of the connection
between those who called angels Of God
and the women they loved were not men like
our breed but giants; just as If there
were not born even in our own time men OF
much greater size than the ordinary stature.
of Rome, at whom the crowds came to
marvel)
Giants therefore might well be born, even
before the sons Of God, who are also called
angels of God, formed connection with the
daughters of men, Of those living according
to men, that is to say: before the sons of
Seth formed connection with the daughters
of Cain.
THE words There were giants in the
earth in those days and also after that when
the sons of God came in unto the daughters
of men prove that there were giants both
before in the days and also after that
But that those angels were not angels In
the sense Of not being men. as some suppose,
Scripture itself decides For when II had
first been stated that the angels Of God saw
the daughters OF men that they were fair and
they took them wives all of which they chose
il was Immediately added, And the Lord God
said My spirit shall not always strive with
these men for they are also flesh For by
the spirit of God they had been made angels
of God and sons of God; but declining toward
lower things. they are called men, a name Of
nature not of grace; and they are called flesh.
as deserters of the Spirit.
THE writings produced under the name
Of Enoch are not genuine just as many
writings are produced by heretics under the
names both Of other prophets and under the
name of apostles. There is therefore no doubt
that there were many giants before the deluge
and that these citizens OF the earthly
society Of men, and that the sons OF God who
were according to the flesh the sons Of Seth,
sunk into this community when they forsook