“The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair.”
These spiritual beings gave up the prerogatives of angelic life, having been seduced by the flesh. “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain.” [Prv. 31: 30] But the true Son of God, moved by the neglect of our spiritual natures, became Incarnate of a chaste Virgin in order to lift us up above the angelic realm, so that we might become the new adopted ‘sons of God’.