Can Afterward Solve the Timeline

The phrase and also afterward in Genesis 6:4 has often seemed to offer a solution. If the Nephilim continued after the Flood, perhaps the later Greek heroes could belong to that continuation.

The difficulty is the phrase's reference. Genesis does not say after the Flood. It might mean after the days just mentioned, after the unions, or after another period within the narrator's horizon. Choosing the Flood as the boundary requires an argument.

Even that choice would not establish the rest of the connection. Continued presence of Nephilim would not by itself explain new unions, identify Greek figures, or reconcile Enoch's confinement account.

The phrase therefore keeps a question open without carrying the whole chronology. It is useful evidence precisely when we read its limited contribution accurately. Later biblical witnesses may bear on the question, but the few words cannot serve as a complete bridge to the Greek heroic age.