[98] [According to the Manichaeans, the divinely created and immortal
soul is imprisoned in an alien and evil body. There can be no harmony
between soul and body.]

[99] {218}[Compare--

"Let him unite above
Star upon star, moon, Sun;
And let his God-head toil
To re-adorn and re-illume his Heaven,
Since in the end derision
Shall prove his works and all his efforts vain."

_Adam, a Sacred Drama_, by Giovanni Battista Andreini;
Cowper's _Milton_, 1810, iii. 24, sqq.]

[100] {219}[Lines 163-166 ("perhaps" ... "sacrifice"), which appear in
the MS., were omitted from the text in the first and all subsequent
editions. In the edition of 1832, etc. (xiv. 27), they are printed as a
variant in a footnote. The present text follows the MS.]

[101] [According to the _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, the word "Abel"
signifies "shepherd" or "herdman." The Massorites give "breath," or
"vanity," as an equivalent.]

[by]

_A drudging husbandman who offers up_
_The first fruits of the earth to him who made_
_That earth_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

[bz] {220}

_Have stood before thee as I am; but chosen_
_The serpents charming symbol_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[102] {221}[_Vide ante_, "Preface," p. 208.]

[103] {223}[Compare--

"If, as thou sayst thine essence be as ours,
We have replied in telling thee, the thing
Mortals call Death hath nought to do with us."

_Manfred_, act i. sc. 1, lines 161-163,
_Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 90.]

[104] {224}[Dr. Arnold, speaking of _Cain_, used to say, "There is
something to me almost awful in meeting suddenly, in the works of such a
man, so great and solemn a truth as is expressed in that speech of
Lucifer, 'He who bows not to God hath bowed to me'" (Stanley's _Life of
Arnold_, ed. 1887, i. 263, note). It may be awful, but it is not
strange. Byron was seldom at a loss for a text, and must have been
familiar with the words, "He that is not with Me is against Me."
Moreover, he was a man of genius!]

[105] {226}["The most common opinion is that a son and daughter were
born together; and they go so far as to tell us the very name of the
daughters. Cain's twin sister was called Calmana (see, too, _Le Mistere
du Viel Testament_, lines 1883-1936, ed. 1878), or Caimana, or Debora,
or Azzrum; that of Abel was named Delb