Interpretation of Genesis 6 4

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undefined Interpretation of A.Lopukhin: Depravity We are: 6:4 and more. "At that time there were giants on the land, especially since the time when the sons of God began to enter the daughters Man, and they began to give birth to them: they are strong, from ancient times glorious people."
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Gen. 6:1. "When people began to multiply on the earth and were born to their daughters."
The context of speech shows that here the whole is taken instead of part - The "Caniantians" are denoted by the general concept of "people", the analogy of which is seen and in Other places of Scripture.

Genesis 6:2, “Then the sons of God saw the daughters of men.”
This is one of the most difficult places to interpret the Bible; Its difficulty lies in determining who should be understood here “Sons of God.” Some, mostly Jewish rabbis, based on the philological meaning of the root (God), seen here the testimony of the nobles and princes, in general, the higher and noble classes, as if married with the girls of the lower social strata. From here, the term "sons of God" in Arabic. translated - filii illustrium, in Onkelos targume – filii principium, Simmach. But this explanation is not withstand positively no criticism, being completely arbitrary and not explaining the further consequences of this fact. Universal Deployment of Humanity

Most of the other Jewish and Christian interpreters of antiquity, together with the rationalists of the new time, under the “sons of God” mean Angels. Being thoroughly developed in apocryphal books – Enoch and Jubileeev and in the works of Philo, this is an opinion in the first centuries of the Christian era, was so well known that it was even divided Many of the Fathers and Teachers of the Church (Justin Philosopher, Irenaeus, Athnegor, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Ambrose, etc.). Although it is true that under the term "sons of God" the Holy Scriptures, sometimes, mainly in poetic departments, mean “Angels” (Jobs 1:6, 2:1, 38:7, etc.), the following as the very context of this narrative and its positive-historical nature, and philological-dogramic The requirements do not allow you to take the side of this opinion.

The only correct, happily avoidant flaws of two the above opinions and satisfying all philological, textual and historical and dogmatic requirements we consider the third opinion, which, by the “sons of God” is to be understood by the pious “Syphites.” On the side of it is the majority of famous for its exegetical by the works of the Fathers of the Church (John Chrysostom, Ephraim the Syrian, Blessed Theodorite, Cyril of Jerusalem, Jerome, Augustine, etc.) and a number of modern Exeget scientists (led by Keyl).

This opinion is quite justified philologically, since the name "sons God’s Bible in the Scriptures of both covenants (Deuteronomy 14:1; psalm 72:15; Prem. 16:26; Lock 3:38; Rom. 8:19; Galal 3:26, etc.) is often attached to Pious people. This is also facilitated by the context of the previous a narrative in which, when calculating the offspring of Seth at the head of him The name of God is given why all the Siphites are presented as His children. Even more decisively, the same indicates the final verse 6 chapters, where (By Gen. 4:26) it is said that in the days of the Enos the syphites began solemnly To call the name of the Lord and themselves to be named after Him “sons of God.” Finally, for this is evidenced by the very nature of marriages concluded between the sons of God and daughters of men: in the sense of what was used here Biblical expressions were not temporary and unnatural connections (which could be the touch of angels with wives), and the usual marriages, correct legally, although harmful in their moral consequences.

"they are beautiful, and took them as a wife, which one chose."
If we remember that when characterizing the canitians are physical Jewelia 6:4 and universal corruption of humanity and sensual the beauty stood in the foreground (Ada, Zilla, Noah), it will become clear that Here the writer speaks precisely of the Cainites. With this understanding “sons of God” and “doers of men” we can quite withstand and this in the text contrast them: both representatives the same primitive humanity; but, being similar in nature, they are opposite in their spiritual and moral mood: The “sons of God” were the representatives of all good, the sublime and the good. human daughters, acting seductive - the personification of the earth sensual interests. Over time, the opposite of morals disappears – The sons of God are mixed with the daughters of men, which is erased by the face between good and evil, and the complete expanse of the rule of the lower, sensual interests of the flesh to the detriment of the higher interests of the spirit. Universal Deployment of Humanity

Genesis 6:3. “The Lord said, not the Spirit of M. to be neglected by men.”

Obviously, there is a continuation of the previous narrative: there was indicated the most fact is given here the corresponding assessment; and if here The characters are clearly called by people, then they (not the angels) and above. In particular, the words of the biblical text: “The Spirit of Mine” and conclude an indication or an inner, spiritual essence of the human nature (with a deaf reference to the history of human creation), (Gen. 2:7), or But, more likely, to the Holy Spirit, as a vital principle all in general (Genesis 1:2) and religious-ethical life. Negligence to Him is precisely the blasphemy for the Holy Spirit, which, according to the words of the Savior, is one of the heaviest deadly sins (Mc.3:29), since it characterizes such a degree of sinful Ignition of a person with which it becomes psychologically impossible There's no correction.

"because they're flesh"
This is the reason why people have neglected the divine Spirit and deserved the punishment. The first word of this phrase. Filaret more accurately Translates: “in his delusion” – obviously, the biblical author of this again pointed to the ungodly intercourse of syphites with the caninites. Because Entering into such marriages, people testified to the decline of the highest, spiritual interests and about the domination of the lower, the flesh, and they themselves as would be transformed into the crude flesh that in the language of the Holy Scriptures It is synonymous with all the base, material and sinful.

"Let there be days of their hundred and twenty years"
These words cannot be understood in the sense of reducing human life to the limits of one hundred and twenty years (as I understood. Flavius, Antiquities 1,3,2, so as it is reliably known that for a long time and after the flood mankind has lived for more than 120 years, sometimes reaching up to 500, and follows in see them a time frame appointed by God for repentance and correction of people, in the righteous Noah prophesied the flood and made Meet the preparations (1 Pet. 3:20).

"By Life 6:4. "At that time there were giants on the land,"
Pre-floor humanity is called “Polines”, in the true nephilim – “Nonphilim.” Although, indeed, in Scripture, this term sometimes serves the Significant Giants or Giants (Nummy 13:33–34), but the main meaning this root "destroy, overthrow", and in the form of a nyph - "to force fall, to seduce, to corrupt.” Therefore, in these primitive "non-philim" you can see people who are not only distinguished by extraordinary physical strength and growth, but also persons who deliberately flouted the truth and oppressed Weak. There have been similar personalities among the Cainites before, probably since the era of Tuvalkain, who invented the weapon, and Lach;, who sang he is a victorious anthem; since the confusion of the sychiitis with the Kaininians these The “nephilimes” have been particularly multiplied by the universality and The fall of all moral foundations.

"they are strong, since ancient times glorious people"
Here we are talking about the fruits of mixed marriages, which, unlike The “nefilim” in the Hebrew text is called “gibbonim” (strong). Last Name Biblical usage means an outstanding personality (2 Samuel 17:10; Dan. 11:3), a select warrior, a man superior to others by his strength (3Tall 11:28). It is obvious that the descendants of mixed births (Syphates with Cainites) were superior to their prototypes, as in physical, and immoral properties. Calling these "gybrow" from ancient times "Glorious people", a writer, probably, in mind the fact here, that they, under the name of the "heroes of antiquity" received world fame in Universal traditions of mankind (Var 3:26-28).

Genesis 6:5: "All the thoughts and thoughts of their hearts were evil at all times."
The root of the deep corruption of the pre-empty humanity is indicated in heart damage, and since the latter, according to the biblical view, is considered the central focus of all conscious activities the person, then his corruption is tantamount to infecting the source itself Life (Matthew 15:19).

“Gen. 6:6 And the Lord repented that he created man on earth.”
The concept of the property of the repentance attributed to God can be borrowed from narration of Saul, where repentance is twice attributed to God (1 Samuel says of God that He is not A man to repent Him (1 Samuel 15:29). It can be seen that when It is said of him as a man, it is because, in the words of Aben Jesus, the law speaks the language of the sons of men, i.e., the tongue of the simple, of popular meaning (Filaret). In particular, the “repentance” of God, as it were, a special way of changing the immutable is the highest expression of the thought of extreme divine regret, reaching as if to the point wherein itself The unchanging Being seemed to be ready to change.

"and grieved in his heart."
Like the previous one, it is the same human-like expression. “Sorrow God is an anticipation of impossibility to a man created with a free will, consciously and stubbornly abuse her, to return to the good The way; therefore, where it is said of the sorrow of God, as, for e.g., of the cities, God’s wrath: 11:20–26; Luke 10:13, is needed there It is said that the judgment of the eternal righteousness of God has come to pass, that this generation is this, Or a man must perish, lest an evil be perpetuated.

Genesis 6:7. And the Lord said, I will destroy the men from the face of the earth, whom I He created, from man to cattle, and of the bastards and birds of the sky, for I He repented that he created them.” Here is a stronger expression of the same the thought itself – about the deep inconsistency of the actions of human freedom the Plans of Divine Industry and Desires of the Almighty to destroy this Disharmony.

At the same time, the sad fate of a person, according to the verdict of the divine court, the whole world of living beings was also divided, because between the fate of man and the life of nature, according to the teachings of the Scriptures, there is the closest, moral connection; hence the fall and rebellion of man Appropriately reflected in the rest of the creature. And it's not was, strictly speaking, the extermination of mankind (since the righteous Noah and his family was saved and revived him, but only by the elimination of the the earth of evil by numbness in the waters of the world flood (3 Ezra 3:8-9; 1 Peter 3:20-21).