d. The kind of promises well organized police stations have 226. e. The promises the Church has 227. f. Cain's promise is temporal, incidental and incomplete 227. * Was Cain murdered 228. 6. How Cain had cause to fear, even though there were no people on the earth except Adam and Eve and his sisters 229-230. * The sign that is put upon Cain. a. Can anything definite be said of it. What the fathers thought of it 231. b. Why this sign was placed upon him 232. c. How he had to carry it his whole life 232. d. How the sign was a confirmation and a promise of the law 233. 7. Of Cain's departure, and his excommunication from the presence of Jehovah. a. The first parents in obedience to God made Cain an outcast 234-235. b. How the first parents overcame their parental affections in expelling Cain 236. * What should urge men to flee from their false security 237. c. His expulsion must have pierced Cain to the heart 238. * What is the presence of Jehovah 238. d. How he went from the presence of Jehovah, to be without that presence 239. e. It was a sad departure, both for Cain and his parents 240. f. Whither he resorted 241. * What meaning of "in the land of Nod" 241. * Of Paradise. (1) The deluge very likely destroyed paradise 241. (2) Where was paradise 242. * Of the Deluge. (1) The deluge destroyed paradise 243. * Cain lived where Babylon was built later 244. (2) The deluge gave the earth an entirely different form 244. VI. CAIN'S CONDUCT UPON BEING PUNISHED. V. 13. _And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment (iniquity) is greater than I can bear (than can be remitted)._ 197. Here Moses seems to have fixed a cross for the grammarians and the rabbins; for they crucify this passage in various ways. Lyra recites the opinions of some who see in this passage an affirmation, considering it to mean that in his despair Cain claimed his sin to be greater than could be pardoned. This is our rendering. Augustine likewise retained this view of the passage, for he says, "Thou liest, Cain; for the mercy of God is greater than the misery of all the sinners."