 | 1835 - 562 pages
...passage which has occasioned to commentators not a little perplexity. ' Gen. iv. 1. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." ' There are some who affect to smile at the idea of sin lying at the door: it is, however, an Eastern... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 pages
...East never speak of a flock without mentioning what is its kind. 7. — " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." D'Oyly and Mant interpret this, " Your sin will find you out." " Thy punishment is not far off." They... | |
 | Morris Jacob Raphall - Rabbinical literature - 1835 - 440 pages
...occupation. His crime must have been most serious to call forth the Divine reproof: "If thou doest well, wilt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." (Genesis iv. 7) We shall, therefore, endeavour more satisfactorily to meet the question. Besides the... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - Chronology, Historical - 1835 - 792 pages
...he said ; " Why art thou wroth, and \vhy is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shall Ihou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." From the moment of hie rejection, a dark project occupied the Tnind of Cain, and he regarded his brother... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - Bible - 1835 - 652 pages
...people in the East never speak of a flock without mentioning what is its kind. 7. — " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lleth at the door" D'Oyly and Mant interpret this, " Your sin will find you out." " Thy punishment... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 428 pages
...And the Lord said unto Cain, ' 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, a sin-offering lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.'... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - Baptism - 1835 - 642 pages
...knowing the will of God, and how he was to approach him by sacrifice; for he said to him, " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, • Ezek. xxrix. 26. f Isa. xlii. 8. * Heb U. 2. sin lieth at thy door." * Yet Cain, having known this,... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Christianity - 1836 - 232 pages
...upon which God said to him, "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, Si'n lieth at the door" Gen. c. iv. v. 6, 7.. Now these arc the words of God to Cain, upon which I mean to argue the case.... | |
 | Gary Lones - Religion - 2005 - 175 pages
...to realize it before the point of no return. In Verse 7 of Genesis, God said to Cain: "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.... | |
 | Asaph Philips - Religion - 2005 - 270 pages
...Adam's first son, Cain, inherited the fiber of sinfulness in his being. God warned him: "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him" (Gen. 4:7). But Cain also fell into... | |
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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. 
