Genesis 4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

"And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son and called his name Seth: For, she said, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah."The purpose of the narrator here is to introduce the institution of public worship and to announce the appearance of the Messianic line in the person of Seth and his posterity. It is clear that the evil course... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4

CHAP. IV. God hath respect to the offering of Abel, and rejects that of Cain: Cain kills his brother; God denounces sentence upon him for his fratricide. The posterity of Cain. Lamech's address to his wives. The birth of Seth from Adam; of Enos from Seth. GENERAL REFLECTIONS. on Chap. IV. and V. CHAP. IV. One of the most fatal effects of the fall of Adam was to derive a depravity upon his whole posterity, whereof the tragical end of Abel was the first unfortunate example. The birth of her first... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:1

Genesis 4:1. And Adam knew his wife, &c.— All the speculations respecting this passage might have been spared, if the words had been rendered, Adam HAD known his wife Eve, a translation which the original perfectly well bears. Moses, it is evident, gives only the most concise account of things, regardless of smaller matters. He was to give a general history of the creation of the world, and of man; of the fall, and expulsion from Paradise; of the effects of that fall, and of the promised... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:2

Genesis 4:2. Abel— This word signifies vanity. Calmet says, that Eve having observed in the conduct of Cain that he was not the deliverer which she imagined, gave to her second son a name which might denote the vanity of her former hopes: or she might be desirous to express, that the infant was born subject to the inconstancy and vanity of the things of this world, which she herself began to experience more and more every day. Grotius and others remark, that as the employments of these two... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:3

Genesis 4:3. Brought an offering— The words here used are the same with those applied to the legal offerings: יבא iabo, brought, is always used for the sacrifices brought to the door of the tabernacle: and מנחה minchah, for an offering or present made to God or man, as a means of appeasing wrath, &c. See Psalms 20:3. Accept [or turn to ashes] thy burnt sacrifice, menche. The reader is desired to bear this remark in mind. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:4

Genesis 4:4. Abel, of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat, &c.— Cain's offering was suitable to his profession, and Abel's was equally so to his: there does not appear to me any reason of preference on this account. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground, Abel of the firstlings and fattest of his flock: for this, I apprehend, is clearly meant by what we render, and of the fat thereof. For the text may, with the greatest propriety, be rendered, Abel brought of the firstlings of his... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:5

Genesis 4:5. 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 gloomy, downcast, and revengeful countenance. Upon which the Lord condescends to expostulate with him; "Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen? what reasonable and just ground is there for thy jealousy, envy, and anger? If thou hadst done well (sacrificed as thou... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:9

Genesis 4:9. I know not: am I my brother's keeper?— There is no wonder, that he, who from such vile motives could murder his brother, because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous, 1Jn 3:12 should, with an impudent sullenness, give the lie to his Maker. See the dreadful effects of the fall immediately indicating themselves, to display which, was probably one great reason of recording this history. Again, Abel, as Calmet observes, unjustly murdered by his eldest brother, admirably... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:10

Genesis 4:10. The voice of thy brother's blood crieth, &c.— i.e.. Calls upon me for vengeance. See ch. Genesis 18:20-21. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:14

Genesis 4:14. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth— that is, of this part of the earth, or country: and from thy face shall I be hid; an expression which must be restricted, as well as the former; for how could he be hid from the face of God, if we understand it of his all-seeing eye? May it not, therefore, refer to that presence of God, which was appropriated to some certain place? And therefore may we not reasonably conclude, that the same Shechinah, or Divine... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:10

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:14

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