no command what to do; but

UNT, 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 unti

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