And the LORD said unto Cain,
Where is Abel
your brother?
And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
God appeared to Cain with kindness, so that if he repented, the sin of murder that his fingers had committed might be effaced by the compunction on his lips. If he did not repent, however, there would be decreed on him a bitter punishment in proportion to his evil folly. .
