Bible Encyclopedia: Fratricide: Cain

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What Cain's Reason was for Building a City So Early in the History ...
... their dissociation, inasmuch as the generations of both lines are recorded in separate
tables, the one line descending from the fratricide Cain, the other from ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 8 what cains reason was.htm

Petilianus Said: "For Neither Has the Lord God at any Time ...
... that any one of you who persists in the obstinate self-will of his sacrilegious
madness should be tortured with the punishment of the fratricide Cain, that is ...
/.../chapter 87 190 petilianus.htm

Cain's Family and their Inventions.
... So far the seed of Cain is registered; and for the rest, the seed of his line has
sunk into oblivion, on account of his fratricide of his brother. ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxx cains family and their.htm

Letter cclx. To Optimus the Bishop.
... To take the crimes of Cain: the first sin is envy at the preference ... field:" [3150]
the third is murder, a further wickedness: the fourth, fratricide, a still ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cclx to optimus the.htm

Second Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to Brotherly Love.
... death. The stern and frightful judgment is here expressed that the unloving
person is no better than Cain the fratricide. His heart ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/second sunday after trinity exhortation.htm

And when they were Put Out of Paradise, Adam and his Wife. ...
... his expulsion from Paradise, not content with the first evil, wrought a second on
the brothers; for filling Cain with his spirit he made him a fratricide. ...
/.../the demonstration of the apostolic preaching/chapter 17 and when they.htm

The Growth and Power of Sin
... in the words of Jehovah, 'If thou doest well, is there not acceptance?' that the
reason lay in Cain's evil deeds. So, in 1 John 3:12, the fratricide is put ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the growth and power of.htm

The Answer to the Question Raised.
... that the whole human race might not spring from a wicked fratricide, Seth was born ...
with and the society of their kindred descended from the wicked Cain, as the ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xxi the answer to.htm

How the Kindly-Disposed and the Envious are to be Admonished.
... And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell (Genesis 4:4). Thus spite
on account of the sacrifice was the seed-plot of fratricide. ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter x how the kindly-disposed.htm

Of the Fratricidal Act of the Founder of the Earthly City, and the ...
... Thus the founder of the earthly city was a fratricide. ... Now these brothers, Cain and
Abel, were not both animated by the same earthly desires, nor did the ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 5 of the fratricidal act.htm

Nave's Topical Index

Genesis 4:8
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Nave's Topical Index

Subtopics

Brother

Brother Against Brother

Brother and Sister Relationships

Brother: A Fraternal Epithet, Especially Among Christians--Instituted by Christ

Brother: Brother's Widow--Law Concerning--Levirate Marriage of

Brother: Joseph's, for his Brethren

Brother: Love of

Brother: Reuben's Love for Joseph

Brother: Signifies: A Companion

Brother: Signifies: A Neighbor

Brother: Signifies: A Relative,