Genesis 4

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:3-6

Genesis THE GROWTH AND POWER OF SIN Gen_4:3 - Gen_4:16 . Many lessons crowd on us from this section. Its general purport is to show the growth of sin, and its power to part man from man even as it has parted man from God. We may call the whole ‘The beginning of the fatal operations of sin on human society.’ 1. The first recorded act of worship occasions the first murder. Is not that only too correct a forecast of the oceans of blood which have been shed in the name of religion, and a... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:7

Genesis THE GROWTH AND POWER OF SIN WHAT CROUCHES AT THE DOOR Gen_4:7 . These early narratives clothe great moral and spiritual truths in picturesque forms, through which it is difficult for us to pierce. In the world’s childhood God spoke to men as to children, because there were no words then framed which would express what we call abstract conceptions. They had to be shown by pictures. But these early men, simple and childlike as they were, had consciences; and one abstraction they did... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:8-16

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:1-8

Offerings by Cain and Abel Genesis 3:22-24 ; Genesis 4:1-8 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 the Eden of innocence, of home, of the land of his birth, to create gardens out of deserts, and to become a pilgrim to the abiding City of God. Angels of Love forbid our return. Heaven lies before us, the City gleams with light on the far horizon. For the Tree of Life see Revelation 2:7 .... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:9-26

Cain’s Career Genesis 4:9-26 God’s first question to the soul is, “Adam, where art thou?” The next, “Where is thy brother?” We are our brother’s keepers. All related to us, within our reach, or needing our help have a claim. We must not take advantage of them. Their well-being and our own are inseparable. God keeps an inventory of His saints, and will avenge them. Their blood will cry to God against those who have wronged them. There is only one cry in the world which is stronger-“the blood... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 4:1-26

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 had come which should bruise the head of the serpent. How little she knew of the nature of her own sin. Thus from the beginning sin manifested a wayward rebelliousness which ever tends to break the heart of fatherhood and motherhood; and experimentally some of the consciousness of the pain of God... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 4:1-16

Seeing Christ in Cain and Abel Genesis 4:1-16 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 to propagate their race. Every human being upon the earth came forth from the first created pair. 2. Cain and Abel received from their parents a sinful nature. The one was not good and the other bad. They were both alike evil. A bitter fountain cannot give forth sweet water, and both were sons... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:4-5

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-Deuteronomy : 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 exactly consistent with what we ourselves see of man, the other so exactly consistent with what we ourselves should expect in... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:9

THE UNBROTHERLY BROTHER‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Genesis 4:9 Whether the story of Cain and Abel be literal history or profound allegory, it conveys deep and abundant lessons. In the fact that, so headlong was man’s collapse from his original innocence, of the first two born into the world the elder grew up to be a murderer, and the younger his victim, we have a terrible glimpse into that apostasy of man’s heart of which we see the bitter fruits in every walk of life. All national history;... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:19-24

AN EARLY CHAUVINIST‘And Lamech took unto him two wives,’ etc. Genesis 4:19-Jeremiah : Here we have I. A violator of the Divine law of marriage.—Monogamy was the Divine law of marriage, and in all likelihood this rule had been observed till Lamech’s time. The general opinion is, that Lamech was the first to disobey this law by taking ‘two wives.’ The fact would scarcely have been recorded, had it not been intended to note a new departure from the established order of things. ‘This was his... read more

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:3-6

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:7

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:8-16

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:1-8

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:9-26

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 4:1-26

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 4:1-16

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:4-5

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:9

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:19-24

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