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Verse Genesis 4:5. _UNTO CAIN_] As being unconscious of his
sinfulness, and consequently unhumbled, _and to his offering_, as not
being accompanied, as Abel's was, with _faith_ and a sacrifice for
si...
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- Section IV - The Family of Adam
- Cain and Abel
1. קין _qayı̂n_, Qain (Cain), “spear-shaft,” and קנה
_qānah_, “set up, establish, gain, buy,” contain the biliteral
root קן _qan_, “set up, erect, g...
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CHAPTER 4
After the Fall and the Two Seeds
_ 1. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1)_
2. Their offerings (Genesis 4:3)
3. The divine remonstrance (Genesis 4:6)
4. Abel slain by his brother ...
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The Story of Cain and Abel. This belongs to the J cycle of stories,
but apparently not to the same stratum as Genesis 4:3, for it is
assumed that the earth has a population from which Cain fears
venge...
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BUT UNTO CAIN... HE HAD NOT RESPECT.
It was not an offering made in the obedience of faith. Cain came with.
thank-offering, such as the most righteous person might offer, but he
brought no sin offeri...
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_but unto Cain_ In what way the Divine displeasure was conveyed is not
recorded. The suggestion that fire from heaven consumed the offering
of Abel, but left that of Cain untouched, is a pure conjectu...
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CAIN WAS VERY WROTH, AND HIS COUNTENANCE FELL— Cain's jealousy and
envy of his brother filled his heart with anger and indignation
against him, passions which immediately discovered themselves in his...
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PART SEVENTEEN
THE BEGINNING OF TRUE RELIGION
(Genesis 4:1-15)
1. _Preliminary Definitions_
It is doubtful that there is a more ambiguous word in our language
today than the word religion. It has li...
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_BUT UNTO CAIN AND TO HIS OFFERING HE HAD NOT RESPECT. AND CAIN WAS
VERY WROTH, AND HIS COUNTENANCE FELL._
And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. He seems to have
been naturally a man of...
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CAIN AND ABEL. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN
The narrative, which forms part of the Primitive document,
impressively shows how sin, having once appeared, became hereditary in
the human race, and speedily de...
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CAIN WAS VERY WROTH. — Heb., _it burned to Cain exceedingly:_ that
is, his heart was full of hot indignant feelings, because of the
preference shown to his younger brother....
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וְ אֶל ־קַ֥יִן וְ אֶל ־מִנְחָתֹ֖ו לֹ֣א
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CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 4:1
IT is not the purpose of this narrator to write the history of the
world. It is not his purpose to write even the history of mankind. His
object is to write the history of r...
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OFFERINGS BY CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 3:22; Genesis 4:1
It was good that man should be driven from Eden. Soft comfort
enervates. The natives of the South Sea Islands are moral pulp. Man
goes forth from...
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The degeneration of the first man and woman was transmitted, the
firstborn being manifestly an inheritor of the fallen nature of his
parents. His mother named him Cain, intimating a hope that the seed...
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Even though Adam and Eve had sinned and been driven out of the garden,
there were moments of joy. Eve conceived and bore Cain. She said, "I
have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). Her statemen...
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And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground.
Hebrews 12:24. In the original, it is, thy Brother's bloods; as if,
not only the death of Abel was co...
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There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention
may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with
facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
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_THE DISREGARDED AND THE ACCEPTED OFFERING_
‘And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto
Cain and to his offering He had not respect.’
Genesis 4:4
There are two things which di...
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5._But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect_. It is not to
be doubted, that Cain conducted himself as hypocrites are accustomed
to do; namely, that he wished to appease God, as one dischar...
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But grace could work. The grace of a God above the evil of man, and
Abel approaches Him by faith. Hereon follows the separation of the
families of God and of the enemy, of the world and of faith. Abel...
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BUT UNTO CAIN AND TO HIS OFFERING HE HAD NOT RESPECT,.... Not because
of the matter of it, as some have thought; but because it was not
offered in faith and sincerity, but in a formal and hypocritical...
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But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was
very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Ver. 5. _But to Cain and his offering, &c._] Because he brought _not
the person but the work o...
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_Cain was very wroth_ Full of rage against God and his brother. _His
countenance fell_ His looks became sour, dejected, and angry. _The
Lord said unto Cain_ to convince him of his sin, and bring him t...
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1 The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel.
8 The murder of Abel.
9 The curse of Cain.
17 Enoch the first citie.
19 Lamech and his two wiues.
25 The birth of Seth,
26 and Enos.
1 AND Ada...
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BUT UNTO CAIN AND TO HIS OFFERING HE HAD NOT RESPECT. The Lord
searches the reins and the heart. He noted the humble faith of Abel,
whose one thought was to give the Lord a proof of the sincere
gratit...
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The Offerings of Cain and Abel...
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SECOND SECTION
_Cain and Abel. The Cainites. The ungodly Worldliness of the First
Civilization._
GENESIS 4:1-26
1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain [the
gotten, or possessi...
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CAIN AND ABEL
Adam and Eve, having acquired a sinful nature, could only communicate
the same nature to their children. Their firstborn was named Cain,
which means "smith" or "fabricator," one who plan...
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1-7 When Cain was born, Eve said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed. If so, she was
wofully disappointed. Abel signifies vanity: when she thought...
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CAIN WAS VERY WROTH; partly with God, who, had cast so public a
disgrace upon him, and given the preference to his younger brother;
and partly with Abel, because he had received more honour from God,...
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& Genesis 5:1-32
As each section of the Book of Genesis opens before us, we are
furnished with fresh evidence of the fact that we are travelling over,
what a recent writer has well termed, "the seed-...
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Genesis 4:5 respect H8159 (H8804) Cain H7014 offering H4503 Cain H7014
very H3966 angry H2734 (H8799) countenance...
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‘And Yahweh had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and
his offering he had no regard.'
But how did they know that one was accepted and the other not? The
answer would seem to lie in the f...
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‘So Cain burned with anger, and his face fell.'
He was clearly extremely furious (the description is powerful), and
the more he thought about it the more the anger showed on his face. No
doubt he wen...
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THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL (GENESIS 4:1 TO GENESIS 5:1 A).
Genesis 4:1. The Sin of Cain TABLET III
It is quite clear that this section once existed separately from
Genesis 2-3. The immediate and last...
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Genesis 4
I.
From the story of Cain we gather the following thoughts:
I. Eve's disappointment at the birth of Cain should be a warning to
all mothers. Over-estimate of children may be traced somet...
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Genesis 4:4
There are two things which distinguish the Bible from every other
book: the view it gives us of man, and the view it gives us of God.
The one is so human, the other so Divine; the one so e...
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Genesis 4:3
I. The first question to be asked is this: What did Cain and Abel know
about sacrifice? Although we should certainly have expected Moses to
inform us plainly if there had been a direct ord...
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Genesis 4:3
Hebrews 11:4
We learn from our text:
I. That religion actuated men in the very earliest times. (1) Religion
as a principle was found in the members of the first human family. The
most pr...
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CONTENTS: First sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. Murder of Abel. First
civilization. Birth of Seth.
CHARACTERS: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth.
CONCLUSION: Attainment can never take the place of Atonement....
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Genesis 4:1. _I have gotten._ קניתי _kaniti,_ from the root
_kana,_ he possessed. The LXX have betrayed their ignorance of the
Eternal Word, or Wisdom, by frequently rendering this word _created._
God...
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_The Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering; but unto Cain and
to his offering He had not respect_
THE TWO OFFERINGS
I. THE CAUSE OF CAIN’S REJECTION. His total want of the true spirit
of fa...
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_Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground_
THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL
I. RELIGION ACTUATED MEN IN THE VERY EARLIEST TIMES.
II. THE MERE NATURAL RELIGION IS ESSENTIALLY DEFECT...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:2 The fact that God HAD REGARD FOR ABEL
AND HIS OFFERING, but not for Cain, does not mean that shepherds are
better than farmers or that animal offerings are better than plan...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 4:7. Sin lieth at the door.] Rather: “A sin-offering is
crouching at the door, or (more generally) opening”: _e.g._ “at
the opening, or entrance, of thy brother’s fold.” This...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 4:1
Exiled from Eden, o'er, canopied by grace, animated by hope, assured
of the Divine forgiveness, and filled with a sweet peace, the first
pair enter on their life experience of...
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Lets turn to Genesis Chapter four.
Adam and Eve have been expelled from the Garden of Eden because of
their disobedience to God.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said...
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But. Numbers 16:15 Hebrews 11:4 wroth. Genesis 31:2 Genesis 31:5 Job
5:2...
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SEEING CHRIST IN CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Cain and Abel came by natural generation. The only human beings God
ever created were Adam and Eve. They were created with the power...
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CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It falls to our lot to connect the links between our last study and
today's.
1. WE HAVE ADAM NAMING HIS WIFE, "EVE." Here is the Scripture: "And
Adam ca...
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And Cain was wroth, and his countenance fell — Not so much out of
grief as malice and rage. His sullen churlish countenance, and down
— look, betrayed his passionate resentment....
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Does God show respect to certain persons?
PROBLEM: God is represented in the Scriptures as someone who “is no
respect[er] of persons” (Romans 2:11, KJV), and one who “shows no
partiality” (Deuteronomy...