"... This reconstructed etiology explains how it is that the giants could become so openly identified as demons at a later stage ... see the Testament of Solomon 5:3 and 17:1. In 5:3 (within the section 5:1–11), the author reinterprets the demon Asmodaeus – this is a deliberate reference to the Book of Tobit that follows the longer recension (compare Codex Sinaiticus at 3:7–8, 17; 6:14–15, 17; 8:2–3; 12:15) – one born from a human mother and an angel. In the latter text (in the passage 17:1–5) the demonic power thwarted by Jesus (in an allusion to Mark 5:3) is identified as having been one of the giants who died in the internecine conflicts (compare 1 Enoch 7:5 and 10:12). Similarly, Pseudo-Clementine Homilies 8.12–18 refers to the giants, which are designed as both “bastards” and “demons” in the ante-diluvian phase of their existence. Here they are said to have survived the Flood in the form of disembodied “large souls” whose post-diluvian activities are proscribed through “a certain righteous law” given them through an angel ..."