7. Their desire to marry thus resembled Eve's desire to take the forbidden apple 112. 8. Why the patriarchs' children took this step 113. 9. How these marriage alliances were formed 114-116. 10. Berosus' testimony concerning these forbidden marriages 116. B. DISORDER IN ALL BRANCHES OF SOCIETY 116-117. C. THE TYRANNY EXERCISED. 1. By the "giants" or tyrants. a. What is to be understood by tyrants 117. * The pope resembles the tyrants before the flood 118. b. The nature of these tyrants 119. c. Why called Nephilim 120-122. d. Whether they received their name from their size or from their cruelty 123. * How the Scriptures designate true rulers 123. e. These tyrants types of Antichrist 123. f. They were raging, powerful and criminal characters 124. * Of authorities. (1) How God wants us to honor the authorities though he terribly threatens them 125-126. (2) Why God wants them to be honored, when he himself does not honor them 127. (3) Godless rulers are God's swine and are rare birds in heaven 128. g. Whether these tyrants were rulers and why God called them by such a shameful name 129. h. Moses chose the word Nephilim, which in his day designated a wicked people, to express the tyrants of the first World 130. 2. By "the mighty men." a. How Jerome perverts this text 131. b. What is to be understood by "the mighty men that were of old" 131. * The meaning of "Olam" 132. c. Whence did they receive their power 133. d. Why called "mighty men" 134. * The character of the true church 134. 3. By "the men of renown." a. Why they were thus named 135. b. Who they were 136. * They resembled the pope and bishops 136. c. Lyra's false explanation of it refuted 137. * How Antichrist is restrained from the world, and true doctrine maintained 137. D. THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT 138. * That one sin follows another until man reaches the highest degree of sin 139. III. THE SINS OF THE OLD WORLD IN PARTICULAR. A. THE FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES ENTERED INTO. 102. But, I ask, why is not complaint made also of the men, or why are not the daughters of God included in this complaint? He says merely that they "saw the daughters of men." It was surely for this reason, that the holy generation of Seth had received the peculiar injunction to beware of fellowship with the Cainites, inasmuch as they had been excluded from the true Church, and to mingle with them neither socially through marriage, nor ecclesiastically through worship, for the righteous should avoid every occasion of offense.