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Verse Genesis 4:17. _SHE - BARE ENOCH_] As חנוך _Chanoch_
signifies _instructed, dedicated_, or _initiated_, and especially in
sacred things, it may be considered some proof of Cain's repentance,
that...
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17. חניך _ch__e__nôk_, Chanok, “initiation, instruction.”
18. עירד _‛__ı̂yrād_, ‘Irad, “fleet as the wild ass,
citizen.” מחוּיאל _m__e_
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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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Cainite and Sethite Genealogies.
Genesis 4:17 probably belongs to the earliest stratum of J, in which
the progress of civilisation is not interrupted by the Flood, and the
human race is derived from A...
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ENOCH. Teaching or Initiation. Cain's posterity (verses: Genesis 4:16)
comes in "the Generations of the heavens and the earth" (see
Structure, p. 5). See App-20. This seed was begotten after the slayi...
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The Descendants of Cain: The Genealogy of the Cainites. (J.)
See the Special Note on "the Antediluvian Patriarchs," see below. The
traditions preserved in this section probably belong to a different...
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_his wife_ On the question, Who was Cain's wife? see note at the
beginning of the chapter. If the narrative be homogeneous, she must
have been either a daughter of Eve, or of a family of whose
contemp...
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AND CAIN, &C.— It is evident from this verse, how brief the
narration of Moses is, how he passes over time, and connects events of
many years distance. For it is plain, that several years must have
pa...
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PART EIGHTEEN
THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN CULTURE
(Genesis 4:16-24)
1. _The Patriarchal Age_
The story of Cain and Abel introduces the Patriarchal form of
government and worship. Family government is th...
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_AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE; AND SHE CONCEIVED, AND BARE ENOCH: AND HE
BUILDED A CITY, AND CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY, AFTER THE NAME OF HIS
SON, ENOCH._
And Cain knew his wife. Her name is traditionall...
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BUILDED A CITY] The 'city' of course would be a collection of huts
surrounded by a defensive palisade....
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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 certainly had many other sons and daughters before he built the
city. He built the city after he had lived in Nod for many years....
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This Enoch is not the same person as the Enoch that Genesis 5:18-24
mentions. And this Lamech is not the same person as the Lamech that
Genesis 5:25-31 mentions....
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 4
CAIN KILLS ABEL
V1 Adam had sex with his wife Eve and she became *pregnant. Her son
Cain was born. She said, ‘I have gained a man by the *Lord’...
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CAIN AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
(17) CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE. — As Jehovah had told Eve that He would
“greatly multiply her conception” (Genesis 3:16), we cannot doubt
but that a numerous offspring had grown up...
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וַ יֵּ֤דַע קַ֨יִן֙ אֶת ־אִשְׁתֹּ֔ו וַ
תַּ֖הַר
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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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CAIN'S LINE, AND ENOCH
Genesis 4:12
"MY punishment is greater than I can bear," so felt Cain as soon as
his passion had spent itself and the consequences of his wickedness
became apparent-and so feel...
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CAIN'S CAREER
Genesis 4:9
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 needin...
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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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And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he
builded a (p) city, and called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch.
(p) Thinking by this to be safe, and to have l...
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His wife. She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain's own sister; God
dispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as
mankind could not otherwise be propagated. --- He built a city, viz.
I...
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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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17._And Cain knew his wife_. From the context we may gather that Cain,
before he slew his brother, had married a wife; otherwise Moses would
now have related something respecting his marriage; because...
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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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AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE,.... Who this woman was is not certain, nor
whether it was his first wife or not; whether his sister, or one that
descended from Adam by another of his sons, since this was abou...
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And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he
builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his
son, Enoch.
Ver. 17. _And he builded a city._] So, many drown...
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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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THE PASSOVER AND THE OFFERING WHICH FOLLOWED IT
These are the feasts of the Lord, in the narrower sense, EVEN HOLY
CONVOCATIONS, WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR SEASONS. This
instruction was carried...
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And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and bare Enoch. Since of one
blood all nations of men are made to dwell on the earth, it was
necessary, in the early days, for brothers and sisters to marry....
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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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ENOCH:
_ Heb._ Chanoch...
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16-18 Cain cast off all fear of God, and attended no more on God's
ordinances. Hypocritical professors, who dissemble and trifle with
God, are justly left to themselves to do something grossly scanda...
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_ circ. 3875_ CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE; of which phrase SEE POOLE ON
"GENESIS 4:1". HE BUILT A CITY; partly to divert his troubled mind
with business and pleasure, and partly for his own security against
th...
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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 4:17 . THE LINE OF CAIN.
The following account was probably originally a second covenant
record. It is built around the covenant recognised between Lamech and
Yahweh, but in view of its refere...
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BUILDED A CITY
The first civilization, that which perished in the judgment of the
Flood, was Cainitic in origin, character, and destiny. Every element
of material civilization is mentioned in verses...
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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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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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_Built a city_
THE FIRST CITY
It was a very decided step towards civilization, when the idea of
building a city was first conceived and realized.
The roaming life of the homeless savage was abandone...
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_Cain went out from the presence of the Lord_
THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFE
I. THAT A GOD-FORSAKEN MAN IS NOT CUT OFF FROM THE MITIGATING
INFLUENCES OF DOMESTIC LIFE.
1. Here the future of the...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:17 CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE. Presumably, Cain
married his sister, since the whole human race descends from Adam and
Eve (see Genesis 5:4). The later laws forbi
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 4:16_
THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFE
I. That a God-forsaken man is not cut off from the mitigating
influences of domestic life.
1. _Here the future of...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 4:17
Domiciled in Nod, whither, impelled by woman's love, his wife had
accompanied him, the unhappy fugitive began to seek, if not to find,
relief from the gnawing agonies of remor...
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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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Enoch. Genesis 5:18 Genesis 5:22 and he. Genesis 11:4 Ecclesiastes 2:4...
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And he builded a city — In token of a settled separation from the
church of God. And here is an account of his posterity, at least the
heirs of his family, for seven generations. His son was Enoch, of...
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Where did Cain get his wife?
PROBLEM: There were no women for Cain to marry. There was only Adam,
Eve (Genesis 4:1), and his dead brother Abel (Genesis 4:8). Yet the
Bible says Cain married and had c...