| Bible - 1834 - 274 pages
...rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. (B. c. 3875.) And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.... | |
| Theology - 1834 - 452 pages
...unto me from the ground.' Thus he is pronounced guilty of the crime. And here follows the sentence: 'And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath...unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be on the earth." This was not a mere prelude to a punishment. It was not the doing of an... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? and he said, I know not : am I...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? and he said, I know not : am I...tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto tliee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord,... | |
| Theology - 1835 - 428 pages
...language which rhetoric in vain would essay to imitate ; " And THE LOUD said unto Cain, ' Where is Abel, thy brother?' And he said, ' I know not ; am...ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand,' " &c. To us, these words do not... | |
| Science - 1835 - 704 pages
..." If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom." Gen. iv. 10, 11, " And he said, What hast thou done ? The voice of thy...mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." Alluded to in Job xvi. 18, " O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place." The detail... | |
| Geology - 1835 - 482 pages
...If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom.'** Gen. iv. 10, 11, " And he said, What hast thou done ? The voice of thy...mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." Alluded to in Job xvi. 18, " O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place." The detail... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Religion - 1836 - 322 pages
...his brother Cain. For this act of violence the Lord said • to Cain, " The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art...unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."* For this atrocious sin we are informed, in the above quoted passage,... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1838 - 234 pages
...breast, who could defy the omniscient God with a daring falsehood ' This was his awful sentence. " And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath...unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be on the earth." This curse of God, — the abiding upon him of the terrible displeasure... | |
| Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...brother, and slew him." Immediately divine justice arraigns the murderer, and pronounces condemnation. God said, " What hast thou done ? the voice of thy " brother's...unto thee " her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon " the earth."* Yet the severity of the divine justice was tempered with mercy. When... | |
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