Mankind had long been divided into two classes:those who called upon the name of the Lord, and those who lived after the flesh. But now the broad dividing line had thinned away. "The sons of God" became ashamed of their separatist traditions. They saw less evil and more attractiveness in the men that knew not God than their fathers had seen. They not only intermarried with those that were without, but they also revealed how far the leaven of the world had already changed them by adopting the practice of polygamy. This corruption of the world's best was to be frequently repeated in the history of Israel, and in that also of the Christian Church. And here, in the beginning, it bore the fruit which the Church's conformity to the world has always yielded. Urquhart.