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(2.) They followed the choice which their own corrupt affections made: they took all that they chose, without advice and consideration. But,
(3.) That which proved of such bad consequence to them was that they married strange wives, were unequally yoked with unbelievers, 2Co 6:14. This was forbidden to Israel, De 7:3, 4. It was the unhappy occasion of Solomon's apostasy (1Ki 11:1-4), and was of bad consequence to the Jews after their return out of Babylon, Ezr 9:1, 2. Note, Professors of religion, in marrying both themselves and their children, should make conscience of keeping within the bounds of profession. The bad will sooner debauch the good than the good reform the bad. Those that profess themselves the children of God must not marry without his consent, which they have not if they join in affinity with his enemies.
2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
This comes in here as a token of God's displeasure at those who married strange wives; he threatens to withdraw from them his Spirit, whom they had grieved by such marriages, contrary to their convictions: fleshly lusts are often punished with spiritual judgments, the sorest of all judgments. Or as another occasion of the great wickedness of the old world; the Spirit of the Lord, being provoked by their resistance of his motions, ceased to strive with them, and then all religion was soon lost among them. This he warns them of before, that they might not further vex his Holy Spirit, but by their prayers might stay him with them. Observe in this verse,
I. God's resolution not always to strive with man by his Spirit. The Spirit then strove by Noah's preaching (1Pe 3:19,20), Christ, as God, had by His Spirit inspiring Enoch, Noah, and perhaps other prophets (1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5; Jude 14), preached repentance to the antediluvians; but they were incorrigible, and