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 that Cain told his brother how severely he had been rebuked of the Lord. But who would believe statements for which there is no authority in the Scriptures? We hold therefore to an explanation which has the warrant of the Scriptures, namely that Cain, finding himself rejected of God, indulged his anger, and added to his former sins contempt of his parents and of the Word, thinking within himself: "The promised seed of the woman belongs to me as the first-born. But my brother, Abel, that contemptible, good-for-nothing fellow, is evidently preferred to me by divine authority, manifest in the fire consuming his sacrifice. What shall I do, therefore? I will dissemble my wrath until an opportunity of taking vengeance shall occur."