And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon
the
face of the earth
Either mankind in general, or rather the posterity of Cain, who
were mere natural men, such as they were when born into the
world, and as brought up in it, destitute of the grace of God,
and of the knowledge and fear of him; and who in proportion much
more multiplied than the posterity of Seth, because of the
practice of polygamy, which by the example of Lamech, one of that
race, might prevail among them: and daughters were born
unto them;
not daughters only, but sons also, though it may be more
daughters than sons, or it may denote remarkable ones, for their
beauty or immodesty, or both; and chiefly this is observed for
the sake of what follows.