Short Excerpt: For the mind is carried away by pleasure; and the unsullied principle of reason, when not instructed by the Word, slides down into licentiousness, and gets a fall as the due reward of its transgression.
An example of this are the angels, who renounced the beauty of God for a beauty which fades, and so fell from heaven to earth.
The Paedagogus, Book 3
And we showed in the first Miscellany that the philosophers of the Greeks are called thieves, inasmuch as they have taken without acknowledgement their principal dogmas from Moses and the prophets.
To which also we shall add, that the angels who had obtained the superior rank, having sunk into pleasures, told to the women the secrets which had come to their knowledge; while the rest of the angels concealed them, or rather, kept them against the coming of the Lord.
The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 5
Al Mohler And the origins of the Nephilim
Al Mohler is the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a prominent figure in evangelical Christianity.
In past articles, he indicates that his view that Genesis 6:1-4 is referring to angelic beings who had free will and sinned by cohabiting with women, resulting in the Nephilim.
Author: Al Molher
Interpretation: Angel
Short Excerpt: They [the Nephilim] are described as beings who were on the earth in those days, “when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and bore children to them.”
This appears to be an indication that rebellious angels had sexual intercourse with human women, who bore sons described as “the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.”
This understanding of the Nephilim seems to be affirmed in the New Testament in Jude, verses 6-7.