1. Friedrich Delitzsch, The Pentateuch (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973), I:130.
2. To read the commentary on Matt 22:29-33, click here ☰.
3. W. A. van Gemeren, "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4 [An Example of Evangelical Demythologization?]," WTJ 43 (1981): 320-48.
4. Gordon J. Wenham, Genesis 1-15 (WBC 1; Waco, TX: Word Books, 1987), 140. Wenham's addition remark that "those who believe that the creator could unite himself to human nature in the Virgin's worm will not find this story intrinsically beyond belief," however, has to be taken with a pinch of scepticism.The incarnation is an act of God; the sexual intercourse of the "sons of God" is not.
5. Bruce W. Waltke with Cathi Fredericks, Genesis. A Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001), 117.
6. John Goldingay, Old Testament Theology. Vol 1: Israel's Gospel (Downers Grove:InterVarsity Press, 2003), 161, n48.
7. A rather full exposition in support of this view is found in John Murray, Principles of Conduct (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1957), 243-49. ☰
8. Lyle Eslinger, "A Contextual Identification of the bene ha'elohim and benoth ha'adam in Genesis 6:1-4," JSOT 13 (1979): 65.
9. Eslinger, 66.
10. The "bizarre" things I have witnessed during deliverances of persons 'possessed' by demons may have softened my materialistic edges but not honed them away. Unfortunately, most Western commentators and scholars can only think and speak out of the bookish contexts of their academic vocation and discount anything to do with the spiritual world as outlandish.