Reading Kidner’s commentary on Genesis, I am again struck by how he can summarize with both brevity and brilliance:
“Many details emphasize the depth of Cain’s crime, and therefore of the Fall: the context is worship, the victim a brother; and while Eve had been talked into her sin, Cain will not have even God talk him out of it; nor will he confess to it, nor yet accept his punishment.”[1]
[1] Derek Kidner, Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary, ed. D. J. Wiseman, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary Series, vol. 1 (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1967), 74.
That comment is brilliant. And just as Cain would not let God talk him out of his sin, confess to it or accept his punishment, how comparable is this to the world today?! Sad.
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Marianne – – thanks for reading the posts so carefully.
Thank you Chris for the reminders!