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1 Enoch 15 describes the Watchers who abandoned their place in heaven by taking human wives and producing giant children. Jubilees follows this in its retelling of Genesis, identifying them with the Sons of God in Genesis 6 and their children as demons.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Enoch 15:4
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent you to intercede for them: "You should be interceding for men, not men for you:" 3 Why have you left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men, taken yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and fathered giants as your sons? 4 And though you were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and fathered children with the blood of flesh, and, like the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish. 5 Therefore I have given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be lacking to them on earth. 6 But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.
Date: 300 BCE – 100 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
Jubilees 7:21
Pseudepigrapha, Hebrew Bible Expansions
21 For because of these three things the flood came upon the earth, namely, because of the sexual immorality in which the Watchers against the commandments prescribed for them pursued sexual relations with human women, and married whichever women they chose: and they began the practice of impurity. 22 And they fathered sons, the Nephilim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants killed the Naphil, and the Naphil killed the Eljo, and the Eljo humanity, and one man another. 23 And everyone sold himself to do evil and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
Date: 170–125 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The ‘Sons of God’ of Genesis 6:1-4 are described in the Pseudepigraphical Jewish literature as being - ‘evil angels’, ‘demons’ (Jubilees 10:2), ‘Watchers’ (1 Enoch 10-16; Jubilees 7:21; 10:5; and Testament of Naphtali 3:5), ‘stars’, ‘spirits’ (pneumata, see 1 Enoch 15:4-10, 16:1 and Jubilees 10:3, 7) and ‘spirits of the angels’ (1 Enoch 19:1). Their illegitimate offspring, the Nephilim, are also described as ‘(evil) spirits’ (1 Enoch 15:8-12; 16:1 and Jubilees 10:3-5) or ‘demons’ (Jubilees 7:22; 10:1f) ..."
D. N. Campbell and Fika J. van Rensburg, “A History of the Interpretation of 1 Peter 3:18–22,” Acta Patristica et Byzantina 19.1 (2008): 73–96.
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Maybe they were referring to people that didn’t follow their particular religion? Everyone is a son/daughter of god, neither holy or evil, but live a life without one overcoming the other & find an inner peace of harmonious duality … is that not the reason they both exist in us ... that is what inne ...
Maybe they were referring to people that didn’t follow their particular religion? Everyone is a son/daughter of god, neither holy or evil, but live a life without one overcoming the other & find an inner peace of harmonious duality … is that not the reason they both exist in us ... that is what inner peace is. Embodiment of light with a sacred shadow?