[257] Goldsmith.
[258] That is, “above reason.”
[259] Gen. vi. 2.
[260] Ibid. iv. 26.
[261] Job xxxviii.
[262] “In the beginning God created” (Gen. i. 1).
[263] Gen. vi. 4.
[264] Dr. Gill, very innocently, would account for it otherwise, viz. “either because they made their fear fall upon men, or men through fear to fall before them, because of their height and strength—or rather because they fell and rushed on men with great violence, and oppressed them in a cruel and tyrannical manner”!!!
[265] Philosophers will ultimately repose in the belief that Asia has been the principal foundry of the human kind; and Iran or Persia will be considered as one of the cradles from which the species took their departure to people the various regions of the earth (Dr. Barton, Trans Phil. Soc. Philad. vi. p. 1).
“It follows that Iran or Persia (I contend for the meaning, not the name) was the central country which we sought” (Sir W. Jones, Asiatic Researches).