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McCracken’s Notes

(3) REBELS AMONG THE WATCHERS (Pgs. 22-25)

- This is the story of the fallen angels.

— The beginning, 6.1-2, is virtually
identical with Genesis 6.1-2. In Enoch's
book, we get their names and many other

details.
— At 6.6, Enoch explains the naming of Mount

Hermon - in Hebrew it means curses. The
mountain that he was actually referring to
is possibly somewhere near Lake Van in

Turkey. It is common for translators to
update names rather than use phonetics, so

the few names that appear, mainly mountains
and rivers, can’t be relied upon as accurate

identifications. We don’t know whether
there was another mountain called ’curses’
or even what language the book was

originally written in.
— At 7.2, he says they had giant sons. I

believe that this means, not that they were
physically big, but powerful and wealthy

with private armies. Nevertheless, the
Watchers may have been larger than the local
people were. Many years of advanced

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