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Chapter
XIII.—The Fall of the Angels.
“But when, having assumed these forms, they
convicted as covetous those who stole them, and changed themselves into the nature of
men, in order that, living holily, and showing the possibility of so
living, they might subject the ungrateful to punishment, yet having
become in all respects men, they also partook of human lust, and being
brought under its subjection they fell into cohabitation with
women;1098
| 1098 [Comp.
Recognitions, i. 30. The details here are not only fuller,
but apparently represent a more developed
speculation.—R.] | and being
involved with them, and sunk in defilement and altogether emptied of
their first power, were unable to turn back to the first purity of
their proper nature, their members turned away from their fiery
substance:1099
| 1099 The text is somewhat
obscure; but the following sentence shows this to be the meaning of
it. | for the fire
itself, being extinguished by the weight of lust, and changed
into flesh, they trode the impious path downward. For they
themselves, being fettered with the bonds of flesh, were constrained
and strongly bound; wherefore they have no more been able to ascend
into the heavens.
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