Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxvii Pg 19 This is Massuet’s conjectural emendation of the text, viz., archetypum for arcætypum. Grabe would insertper before arcæ, and he thinks the passage to have a reference to 1 Pet. iii. 20
. Irenæus, in common with the other ancient Fathers, believed that the fallen angels were the “sons of God” who commingled with “the daughters of men,” and thus produced a race of spurious men. [Gen. vi. 1, 2, 3, and Josephus.]