Nephilim, 神的儿子们与人类女儿们所生的巨人

Nephilim 一词来自希伯来语,字面意思是“堕落者” (fallen ones), 指神的儿子(天使)与人类女性生育的后代,翻译成:巨人,尼非订,上古英武有名的人等。

在圣经旧约创世纪6:1-4中用来描述“上帝的儿子们”和“人类之女”结合,这令人震惊但简短的叙述是如此超自然和奇怪,人们为“上帝的儿子们”(” the sons of God”)这个词组的含义争论了很多年。

Nephilim 是堕落天使(神的儿子们)与人所生的变种,神发动挪亚洪水,就是要毁灭这些非自然的变种。

希伯来词nefilim有时被直接翻译为“巨人”或被认为是“堕落的人”(来自希伯来语的naphal,“堕落”),但学者们目前依旧对Nephilim的身份争论不休。有些人反驳说,认为天使或恶魔作为纯粹的精神存在,可以在肉体上与人类繁殖,在神学上是有问题的。

Genesis 6:4 4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Numbers 13:33
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”


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