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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:8

Cain talked with Abel his brother - קין ויאמר vaiyomer Kayin , and Cain said, etc.; not talked, for this construction the word cannot bear without great violence to analogy and grammatical accuracy. But why should it be thus translated? Because our translators could not find that any thing was spoken on the occasion; and therefore they ventured to intimate that there was a conversation, indefinitely. In the most correct editions of the Hebrew Bible there is a small space left here in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:10

The voice of thy brother's blood - It is probable that Cain, having killed his brother, dug a hole and buried him in the earth, hoping thereby to prevent the murder from being known; and that this is what is designed in the words, Thy brother's blood crieth unto me From The Ground - which hath opened her mouth to receive it from thy hand. Some think that by the voice of thy brother's blood the cries of Abel's widow and children are to be understood, as it is very probable that he was father... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:12

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be - Thou shalt be expelled from the presence of God, and from thy family connections, and shalt have no fixed secure residence in any place. The Septuagint render this στενων και τρεμων εση , thou shalt be groaning and trembling upon the earth - the horror of thy crime shall ever haunt thee, and thou shalt never have any well-grounded hope that God will remit the punishment thou deservest. No state out of endless perdition can be considered more awful... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:13

My punishment is greater than I can bear - The margin reads, Mine iniquity is greater than that it may be forgiven. The original words, מנשוא עוני גדול gadol avoni minneso , may be translated, Is my crime too great to be forgiven? words which we may presume he uttered on the verge of black despair. It is most probable that עון avon signifies rather the crime than the punishment; in this sense it is used Leviticus 26:41 , Leviticus 26:43 ; 1 Samuel 28:10 ; 2 Kings 7:9 ; and ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me out - In Genesis 4:11 , Genesis 4:12 , God states two parts of Cain's punishment: The ground was cursed, so that it was not to yield any adequate recompense for his most careful tillage. He was to be a fugitive and a vagabond having no place in which he could dwell with comfort or security. To these Cain himself adds others. His being hidden from the face of God; which appears to signify his being expelled from that particular place where God had... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:8

Verse 8 8.And Cain talked with Abel his brother. Some understand this conversation to have been general; as if Cain, perfidiously dissembling his anger, spoke in a fraternal manner. Jerome relates the language used, ‘Come, let us go without.’ (241) In my opinion the speech is elliptical, and something is to be understood, yet what it is remains uncertain. Nevertheless, I am not dissatisfied with the explanation, that Moses concisely reprehends the wicked perfidy of the hypocrite, who, by... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:9

Verse 9 9.Where is Abel ? They who suppose that the father made this inquiry of Cain respecting his son Abel, enervate the whole force of the instruction which Moses here intended to deliver; namely, that God, both by secret inspiration, and by some extraordinary method, cited the parricide (242) to his tribunal, as if he had thundered from heaven. For, what I have before said must be firmly maintained that, as God now speaks until us through the Scriptures, so he formerly manifested himself to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:10

Verse 10 10.What hast thou done ? The voice of thy brother’s blood Moses shows that Cain gained nothing by his tergiversation. God first inquired where his brother was; he now more closely urges him, in order to extort an unwilling confession of his guilt; for in no racks or tortures of any kind is there so much force to constrain evildoers, as there was efficacy in the thunder of the Divine voice to cast down Cain in confusion to the ground. For God no longer asks whether he had done it; but,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:11

Verse 11 11.And now art thou cursed from the earth. Cain, having been convicted of the crime, judgment is now pronounced against him. And first, God constitutes the earth the minister of his vengeance, as having been polluted by the impious and horrible parricide: as if he had said, ‘Thou didst just now deny to me the murder which thou hast committed, but the senseless earth itself will demand thy punishment.’ He does this, however, to aggravate the enormity of the crime, as if a kind of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:12

Verse 12 12.When thou tillest the ground. This verse is the exposition of the former; for it expresses more clearly what is meant by being cursed from the earth, namely, that the earth defrauds its cultivators of the fruit of their toil. Should any one object that this punishment had before been alike inflicted on all mortals, in the person of Adam; my answer is, I have no doubt that something of the benediction which had hitherto remained, was now further withdrawn with respect to the... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:12

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