tiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them; that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose; there were giants in the earth in those days, the same became mighty men, which were of old men of renown; and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually; and the Lord said I will destroy man, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. vi. 1. Notwithstanding the awful warning of the destruction of the earth by the flood, we find the descendants of this just man guilty of idolatry, that Rachael, the wife of Jacob, stole the images that were her Fathers; the worship of idols of wood and stone spread over the earth; in after ages, at Athens, St. Paul's spirit was stirred up in him, when he saw the whole city giving up to idolatry. 199 Briareos. A giant, who, according to the heathen mythology, warred against heaven, and had fifty heads, and a hundred hands. 199 Typhon. A huge giant who also warred against heaven. 200 Tarsus. Celebrated for the great men it produced, was a town of Cilicia, a country of Asia Minor, on the sea coast to the north of Cyprus, west of the Euphrates, and south of mount Taurus, the largest mountain of Asia. |
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