创世记 4:10, 创世记 4:9 CUNPSS

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 4:1-26

SECOND SECTIONCain and Abel.—The Cainites.—The ungodly Worldliness of the First Civilization. Genesis 4:1-261And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare1 Cain [the gotten, or possession], and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [from, or with the God of the future, or 2 Jehovah]. And again2 she bare his brother Abel [Habel, the perishable; הֶבֶל, vanishing breath of life]. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3And in process of time it came to... read more

Alexander MacLaren

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

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

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-16

The Story of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1 to Genesis 5:1 a). Genesis 4:1-16 . The Sin of Cain TABLET III It is quite clear that this section once existed separately from Genesis 2-3. The immediate and lasting change from ‘Yahweh Elohim’ (Lord God) to ‘Yahweh’ (Lord), after the almost pedantic use of the former in the previous narrative, suggests this, as does the rather abrupt way in which the connection is made between the two accounts. The account is in covenant form being built around two... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:10

‘And Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s bloods (literally) is crying to me from the ground.” ’ “What have you done?” compare Genesis 3:13. These parallels suggest that the story of the Garden of Eden was known to the original author in some form. The plural for blood is intensive, referring to shed blood. It may also vividly suggest the different rivulets of blood that are staining the ground, sown by the ‘worker of the ground’. It is not said to be the dead body... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-16

Genesis 4:1-Nehemiah : . 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 vengeance, and the curse in Genesis 4:11 f. ignores the cursing of the ground in Genesis 3:17-Psalms :. Originally then the story was placed in a later period of human history: its present position is perhaps due to the identification of Cain the murderer with Cain the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:10

I hear thy words, but what say thy actions? What a hideous crime hast thou committed! In vain dost thou endeavour to hide it or deny it. In the Hebrew it is bloods, either to aggravate the crime, or to show the plenty of the blood split, or to charge him with the murder of all those that might naturally have come out of Abel’s loins; which was a far greater crime in the nonage of the world, when the world greatly wanted people. From the ground, upon which it was spilt by thy bloody hands. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 4:9-16

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 4:9-16THE BITTER CURSE WHICH SIN BRINGS UPON AN INDIVIDUAL LIFEWe have been thoroughly educated in the nature and effects of sin by the sacred narrative, not by philosophical instruction, but by the interesting events and transactions of daily life. We saw in the garden that sin consisted in a wandering thought from the word of God, and also in disobedience to the divine command; now we behold it in full development, as a dire passion, and as a social... read more