h by the
daughters of men. As the text says, they "saw the daughters of men."

III. THE SINS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD IN PARTICULAR.

A. THE FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES ENTERED INTO.

1. Why this is said of the sons and not of the daughters of the
holy patriarchs 102.

2. Why were the holy fathers so emphatically forbidden to let
their sons marry the ungodly 103-104.

3. How this was the beginning of all evils 105.

* What evils have in all times come through woman 106.

4. The sins here sprang from despising the first table of the
law 107-108.

* The sins of the second table follow when the first table is
not kept 108.

5. Everything that is called sin is embraced in this sin
109-110.

6. How marriage with the children of the true Church was
despised 111.

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."