4. How Cain heaps sin upon sin 124.

5. Cain despairs and is in a worse state than our first parents
after their fall 125.

6. How Cain placed himself in a position where nothing could
help him 126.

7. Gently accused, and yet defiant 127.

8. Cain has not the least reverence for God or his father 128.

* This is a picture of all hypocrites 129.

9. How his defense ends 130.

* How man ought to act when his conscience accuses him of sin
131.

* The hypocrite's actions when his conscience is awakened, and
what he is to do 132-133.

10. In Cain's defense wickedness and folly are mingled 134.

* How God reveals hypocrites 135.

* Moses says much in few words 136.

* Whether Abel and our first parents anticipated Cain's murder
137.

* Without a thought of what might restrain him, Cain commits
the deed 138.

* The picture of the sacrifice of Iphigenia applied to Moses'
description of Cain's murder 139-140.

* Cain's is no ordinary murder, and how he differs from other
murderers 141.

* The hypocrite's hatred is different from other hatred, and is
found among the Jews and the Papists 142-143.

* Cain the father of all murderers 144.

* How the first parents felt over this whole affair 145.

a. Their grief was so great that they could not have endured
without special divine comfort 146.

b. Their severe trial in view of the first sin 147.

c. Very likely because of this murder they refrained so long
from bearing children 148.

* Whether the first parents had at the time more children
than Cain and Abel 148.

* Why Cain slew Abel, and how he did it 149.

11. The time and occasion when Cain was called to account 150.

12. Adam with the authority of God calls Cain to account 152.

IV. HOW CAIN MURDERED HIS BROTHER AND WAS REQUIRED TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT,
AND HOW HE CONDUCTED HIMSELF.

A. How Cain Murdered His Brother.

V. 8a. _And Cain told (talked with) Abel his brother._

107. Our translation adds that Cain said: "Let us go out doors." But
this is one of the comments of the rabbins, whose relative claim to
credit I have fully shown on a previous occasion. Lyra, following the
invention of Eben Ezra, relates t