Kidner on Cain

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.

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