By the 3rd century, there is evidence that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enochic pseudepigraphy and the application of the angelic descent myth to the "sons of God" passage in [REF].
A Jewish story of angels coming down to earth rather than being cast down, referred to as the story of angelic descent,[REF] is found chiefly in the Jewish pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch, 6-9 and the Qumran Book of Giants and perhaps in [REF].