The beauty of the women has an important bearing on the exegesis. I do not think that it gives warrant for the view that the mere physical beauty led the “sons of God” to lust carnally. Calvin comments that the daughters of men were beautiful to the sons of God through the eyes of lust which led to their marriage “without discrimination, rushing onward according to their lust.”25 The element of lust introduces an idea foreign to the text and prejudges the case. All that can be said here is that the