Chapter 23.—Whether We are to Believe that Angels, Who are of a Spiritual Substance, Fell in Love with the Beauty of Women, and Sought Them in Marriage, and that from This Connection Giants Were Born. In the third book of this work (c. 5) we made a passing reference to this question, but did not decide whether angels, inasmuch as they are spirits, could have bodily intercourse …

And it repented the Lord that he had made man. Moses describes the dreadful corruption which provoked God to destroy the world by the flood. When it is said that God repented, this is spoken after the manner of men, for God is not subject to passions. Yet the expression teaches that sin is so hateful to God that he cannot look upon it without displeasure. Noah found grace in th…

Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.