What was the general opinion of the Early Church Fathers concerning the giants/nephilims?
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What was the general opinion of the Early Church Fathers concerning the giants/nephilims, described in the following verses?
> **Genesis 6:4**
>
> 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also
> after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
> and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were
> of old, men of renown.
>
> **Numbers 13:33**
>
>33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which
> come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and
> so we were in their sight.
>
> **Deuteronomy 9:1–3**
>
>1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this
> day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself,
> cities great and fenced up to heaven,
>
> 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou
> knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the
> children of Anak!
>
> 3 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which
> goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and
> he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them
> out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
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