athen.]

[Footnote 102: I can not for a moment entertain the monstrous
supposition of many expositors that the "sons of God" of these passages
are angels, and the "Nephelim" hybrids between angels and men.]

[Footnote 103: See Lange's "Commentary on Genesis."]

[Footnote 104: The Russian surveys of 1836 made it one hundred and eight
English feet; but later authorities reduce it to eighty-three feet six
inches below the Black Sea.]

[Footnote 105: Kitto's "Bible Illustrations"--Book of Job.]

[Footnote 106: See article "Rephaim" in Kitto's "Journal of Sacred
Literature." But Gesenius and others regard it, not as an ethnic name,
but as a term for the "shades" or spirits of the dead. See Conant on
Job.]

[Footnote 107: On the Biblical view of this subject, the so-called
Aryan mythology, common to India and Greece, is either a derivative from
the Cushite civilization, or a spontaneous growth of the Japetic stock
scattered by the Cushite empire. The Semitic and Hamitic mythologies are
derived from the primeval cherubic worship of Eden, corrupted and mixed
with deification of natural objects and stages of the creative work, and
with adoration of deified ancestors and heroes.]

[Footnote 108: Genesis 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters. See also our
previous remarks on the deluge.]

[Footnote 109: Genesis iv.]

[Footnote 110: Japheth is "enlargement," his sons are Scythians and
inhabitants of the isles, varying in language and nationality; and Noah
predicts, "God shall enlarge Japheth, he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem, Ham shall be his servant." These are surely characteristic
ethnological traits for a period so early. On the rationalist view, it
may be supposed that this prediction was not written until the
characters in question had developed themselves; but since the greatest
enlargement of Japheth has occurred since the discovery of America,
there would be quite as good ground for maintaining that Noah's prophecy
was interpolated after the time of Columbus.]

[Footnote 111: The language of this people, the stem of the
Indo-European languages, is, though in a later form, probably that of
the Aryan or Persepolitan part of the trilingual inscriptions at
Behistun and elsewhere in Persia.]

[Footnote 112: Edkins, "China's Place in Philology."]

[Footnote 113: Reginald S. Poole has adduced very ingenious arguments,
monumental, astronomical, and mythological, for the date B.C. 2717.]

[Footnote 114: It is curious t