That the sonnes of God] The most received sense of the words is, that by sonnes of God is meant not any of the Angelicall nature (though Angels be sometimes called the sonnes of God, as Job 1:6. and though the suppositious prophesie of Enoch expound this place of them,) but rationall creatures of humane kind; yet in this place distinguished from the daughters of men, not onely by their sex, but by their qualities, or by their relations; by their qualities, as persons of some eminent endowments, or estimation above others (as what is excellent is in the Scripture phrase especially intituled unto God, as the garden of God, Ezekiel 28:13. & Chap. 31. vers. 8, 9. the hill of God, Psalms 68:15. Or by their relations, as such as descending from Seth and Enosh professed the true worship of the true God, and so became capable of the title of the sonnes of God, Deuteronomy 14:1. 2 Corinthians 6:18. As on the contrary the wicked are called the children of a strange god, these being such as descended from Seth and Enos, but more remisse in Religion then their godly Ancestors, fell from their zeale for God, and against sinne, and sinfull persons, and so they were not onely willing to converse with them, but so farre fell in love with them, as to take their daughters to be their wives. daughters of men] Heb. of man; by Enallage of number see the Note on vers. 1. By daughters of men are meant those that are come of the corrupt race of wicked and accursed Cain; who are called the daughters of men, as having little of the Image of God in their minds, or manners; and though there be mention onely of daughters, it is like they made mongrell marriages of the daughters of God with the sonnes of men, the women choosing as wicked husbands as the men did wives. that they were faire] They had no respect to spirituall either beauty or deformitie; but a fond and fleshly affection to outward comlinesse of person. which they chose] They chose them for wives whom their affections had chosen to be their bed-fellows, without any respect to that fitnesse which is requisite in marriage; whereof see 2 Corinthians 6:14. or any care or feare of being corrupted by unequall and wicked yoke-fellowes; Exodus 34:16. 1 Kings 11:2-3. or any regard of scandall to their profession, or griefe to the godly. See Genesis 26. last.