Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 4:19-26
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 4:23. Adah and Zillah.] Probably the oldest fragment of poetry extant. With a slight freedom of translation, we may perhaps thus approach the metrical cast of the original:—“Adah and Zillah! hear ye my voice,Ye wives of Lamech! give ear to my tale:A MAN have I slain in dealing my wounds,Yea, a YOUTH in striking my blows:Since SEVENFOLD is to be the avenging of Cain,Then, OF LAMECH, seventy and seven!”MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 4:19-26LAMECHGenesis 4:23-24.... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 4:16-18
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 4:16-18THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFEI. That a God-forsaken man is not cut off from the mitigating influences of domestic life. 1. Here the future of the cursed life has some relief. Cain had his wife to share his sorrow, and, for all we know, to help him in it. The domestic relationship is a great relief and comfort to a sad life. When all goes wrong without, it can find a refuge at home. 2. The children of a cursed life are placed at a moral... read more