...Eve, and practised by Abel; which he vindicates upon the rules of the everlasting gospel, saying, " Why art. thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and, if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." This was the first...

...hatred against his brother Abel, in the following words which are a kind of penitential sermon : * Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door,' (Gen. b?. 6, 7.) What...

...and thou canst not deny it. " Wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?" Gen. xliv. 15. " Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen ?" If thou canst not stand the scrutiny of the righteous, thou shall never stand the judgment of God. Go thy way...

...idea of. The expostulation, he adds, which God addressed to Cain, gives strength to this notion. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the doo-\" The original of sin he proposes to render sin-offering : and the last clause would then be,...

...offering, and the acceptance of Abel's. The words in the present version are, if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? — and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door* — which words, as they stand connected in the context, supply no very satisfactory meaning, and have...

...because of any absolute decree of mine, but because of thy sin. Chap. iv. 7, " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Sin only, not the decree of reprobation, hinders thy being accepted. Deut. vii. 9, " Know that the...

...God over the'creatures. This sentiment is much conn, tenanced by what is said — ' ' If thou dost well, shall thou not be accepted; and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door."H The Hebrew word** translated -t Lev ix 7. $ Ib. xvi. 17. § The force of (his is thought to...

...variety of passages in the Old Testament, a SIN OFFERING, the reading of the passage then becomes, if thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not n<ell, a sin offering lieth even at the door, (t) The connexion is thus rendered evident. God rebukes...

...of the other, manifestly arose from some moral cause, for it is added, " If thou doest well sha.lt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at thy door." We are further told, that the third son of Adana was named Seth ; that the son of Setlt...

...his offering, he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord God said unto Cain, why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance, fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?" The last question which God put to Cain, affords evidence, that, if Cain...