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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This title is susceptible of considerable latitude of meaning and has various applications in
scripture
.
1.
There were “sons of
God
” who took wives of “the daughters of men” (
Gen. 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. (Genesis 6:4)
). These are believed by some to have been
angels
, permitted to take human form: (compare
Jude 6-7
6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 6‑7)
). Others judge the descendants of
Seth
to be alluded to.
2.
The angels who came to present themselves to God in the days of
Job
, and who shouted for
joy
when the foundations of the
earth
were laid, are called “sons of God” (
Job 1:6
6
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. (Job 1:6)
;
Job 2:1
1
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord. (Job 2:1)
;
Job 38:7
7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Job 38:7)
).
3.
The
Gentiles
, who had no place at all as God’s people, were to be called “sons of the living God” (
Hos. 1:10
10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. (Hosea 1:10)
).
4.
Christians, those led of God’s
Spirit
, in the present
dispensation
are declared to be “sons of God” (
Rom. 8:14,19
14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Romans 8:14)
19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19)
;
Gal. 4:6
6
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6)
). It is their
calling
according to God’s purpose. See
SON
.
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“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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