5But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. …
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-5)Here we have, I. The devotions of Cain and Abel. In process of time , when they had made some improvement in their respective callings (Heb. At the end of days , either at the end of the year, when they kept their feast of in-gathering or perhaps an annual fast in remembrance of the fall, or at the end of the days of the week, the seventh day, which was the sabbath)--at some set time, Cain and Abe…
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