{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020127.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020127.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020127.htm","text":"When, then, Adam knew Eve his wife, she conceived and bare a son, whose name was Cain; and she said, \u201cI have gotten a man from God.\u201d And yet again she bare a second son, whose name was Abel, \u201cwho began to be a keeper of sheep, but Cain tilled the ground.\u201d 607 Their history receives a very full narration, yea, even a detailed explanation: 608 wherefore the book itself, which is entitled \u201cThe Genesis of the World,\u201d can more accurately inform those who are anxious to learn their story. When, then, Satan saw Adam and his wife not only still living, but also begetting children\u2014being carried away with spite because he had not succeeded in putting them to death,\u2014when he saw that Abel was well-pleasing to God, he wrought upon the heart of his brother called Cain, and caused him to kill his brother Abel. And thus did death get a beginning in this world, to find its way into every race of man, even to this day. But God, being pitiful, and wishing to afford to Cain, as to Adam, an opportunity of repentance and confession, said, \u201cWhere is Abel thy brother?\u201d But Cain answered God contumaciously, p. 106 saying, \u201cI know not; am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u201d God, being thus made angry with him, said, \u201cWhat hast thou done? The voice of thy brother\u2019s blood crieth to me from the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother\u2019s blood from thy hand. Groaning and trembling shalt thou be on the earth.\u201d From that time the earth, through fear, no longer receives human blood, 609 no, nor the blood of any animal; by which it appears that it is not the cause [of death], but man, who transgressed.\n[He speaks of the \u00e6conomy of the narative: \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03be\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2. Kaye\u2019s Justin, p. 175.]\n106:609\nFell remarks, \u201cBlood shed at once coagulates, and does not easily enter the earth.\u201d [On the field of Antietam, after the battle, I observed the blood flaked upon the soil, not absorbed by it.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: THEOPHILUS: Chapter XXIX....","type":"page"}