Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VIII/Chapter 18

Chapter XVIII.&#8212;The Law to the Survivors.

&#8220;Since, therefore, the souls of the deceased giants were greater than human souls, inasmuch as they also excelled their bodies, they, as being a new race, were called also by a new name.&#160; And to those who survived in the world a law was prescribed of God through an angel, how they should live.&#160; For being bastards in race, of the fire of angels and the blood of women, and therefore liable to desire a certain race of their own, they were anticipated by a certain righteous law.&#160; For a certain angel was sent to them by God, declaring to them His will, and saying:&#8212;