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Prior to the widespread publication of the written mockery of Christianity by the 2nd-century pagan philosopher Celsus, the earlier Church Fathers speak of the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 as angels who did not maintain their original condition of chastity like the other angels who remained holy, but abandoned their chasteness to engage in interspecial relations with human females. In fact, the Alexandrian text of the Septuagint, translates the Hebrew term "בני האלהים" (beni Elohim, literally "sons of God") as "angels." Pre-Christian Jewish literature also understands the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 to be "angels" just as they are identified with angels in the book of Job 1:6, 2:1, and 38:7. In order to interpret the "sons of God" as the children of Seth, one must ignore the passages in Job referring to angels and do a fair amount of "reading into" the text in Genesis.
The new interpretation of the "sons of God" as "descendants of Seth" or "godly men," which became the popular "orthodox view" is not without its exegetical problems. For instance, we must ask ourselves why the intermarriage of Seth's male offspring with Cain's female offspring results in giant offspring? Such giants actually appear more frequently in the Greek Septuagint than they do in the modern, Masoretic Hebrew text. Origen's 3rd-century polemic against Celsus seems to have triggered a re-interpretation of the Genesis-6 passage because Celsus ridiculed the earlier understanding evidenced in Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, and the early Church Fathers. Consequently, in reaction to such scathing mockery, the church historian Sextus Julius Africanus, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Augustine of Hippo and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai all repudiate the seemingly older view in favor of the newer view which has no pre-3rd-century-A.D. witness.
We have the following witnesses to the older view that the "sons of God" in Genesis chapter 6 are angels who fell from their original condition of chastity: ( )