Bible Encyclopedia: Sheep: Offered in Sacrifice by Abel

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Cain and Abel.
... was a husbandman, who tilled the ground; Abel was a shepherd, who kept sheep. One
day each offered a sacrifice to God. Cain brought fruit, and Abel brought a ...
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The Voice of the Blood of Christ
... nought but blood, be signified that there must be a life offered to him ... his great
and glorious Son must surrender his life as a sacrifice for his sheep. ...
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The Life of Adam
... were not to him acceptable, he offered withies and ... pleased not our Lord, for the
sacrifice would not ... their pasture, and ordained flocks of sheep, and departed ...
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Of the Cause of Cain's Crime and his Obstinacy, which not Even the ...
... no place nor any time ought to be offered; or when ... pleased God, and won His favorable
regard to his sacrifice. ... prefigured by Abel the shepherd of sheep: but as ...
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On the Formation of the Character of Believers, and on Giving of ...
... shall incense and a pure sacrifice be offered unto me ... and such as corrupt the word;
and the sheep shall be ... the first place Thou did respect the sacrifice of Abel ...
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Concerning the Sacrament of Baptism
... him, but the faith by which he offered himself entirely to God; of which faith the
outward sacrifice was a ... were daily put to death and counted as sheep for the ...
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The Meaning of Faith
... Through faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain ... sacrificed Isaac, yes,
was ready to sacrifice his only son ... They went about in skins of sheep and goats ...
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Paul's Departure and Crown;
... by them we are killed all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the ... put all these
things together, namely, that I am to be offered a sacrifice, and for ...
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Faith
... promise;" "By faith Sarah bare Isaac;" "By faith Abraham offered up Isaac ... Now, unless
man does stoop, his sacrifice cannot be accepted ... The meanest of his sheep; ...
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Faustus Denies that the Prophets Predicted Christ. Augustin Proves ...
... fruit of the ground is rejected, while Abel's sacrifice of his sheep and the ... Why,
after leaving the ark, only clean animals are offered in sacrifice to God ...
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Genesis 4:4
And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering:
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