he prophesied the coming of the Lord for judgment upon the ungodly.

Other theories concerning the "sons of God" have been broached, but cannot be maintained on careful

and accurate investigation. Any reader curious on the subject may see it discussed in my edition of Kurtz's

History of the Old Covenant, vol. 1., p. 96, etc.

The most exaggerated estimates of the number of the human race at that time have been made, showing

the fallacy of such calculations.

The word Nephilim occurs once again in Numbers 13:33, in the report of the men of gigantic stature, whom

the spies saw in Canaan. But though the Nephilim in those days may have been men of gigantic

proportions, it does not follow that Nephilim means "giants." Lastly, there is nothing in the text which

shows that they were exclusively the offspring of the sons of God.

Some have calculated the cubit at twenty-one inches, which would give a length of five hundred and

twenty-five feet, a width of eighty-seven and half, and a height of fifty-two and a half. St. Augustine

calculates that the proportions of the ark were t he same as those of a perfect human figure, "the length of

which from the sole to the crown is six times the width across the chest, and ten times the depth of the

recumbent figure, measured in a right line from the ground." Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2. p. 566,

Genesis 8:3, 4, compared with 7:11, seems to imply that the forty days of rain must be included in these

one hundred and fifty days, and not added to them.

Mr. Perowne, in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, art. "Noah."

Mr. Perowne quotes from Lyell's Principles of Geology, as an illustrative instance of the effects of an

inundation, of course, on quite a different scale, "what occurred in the Runn of Cutch, on the eastern area of

the Indus, in 1819, when the sea flowed in, and in a few hours converted a tract of land, two thousand

square miles in area, into an inland sea or lagoon."

Dr. Blaikie, Bible History, p. 29.

See Assyrian Discoveries, by George Smith. London, 1875.

Assyrian Discoveries, p. 218.

Two terms are chiefly used in the Hebrew for God: the one, Elohim, which refers to His power as Ruler and

Lord; the other, Jehovah, to His character as the covenant-God.

As a German writer expresses it: "What are we all but descendants of Japheth, who dwell in the tents of

Shem; and what is the language of the New Testament, but that of Javan spoken in the dwellings of Shem?"

See Mr. Bevan's article in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2, pp. 544, etc.

Mr. Smith, however, regards these accounts as exaggera ted.

Professor Rawlingson in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 1.

Canon Cook, in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 1, p. 1097.