| 1824 - 126 pages
...he not to the multitude."* A Similar modes of expression are often recorded in scripture, " the Lord said unto Cain, if thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted ? If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door."f There is not to be found an unbiassed individual,... | |
| Elisha Bates - 1825 - 340 pages
...part. The general strain of scripture promises, both in the Old and New Testament, is conditional. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ?...and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen 4. 7. "Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a eurse: a blessing if ye obey the commandments... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 pages
...ultimate and inevitable consequences of vice, and happiness the sure result of obedience and virtue. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door:" Gen. iv, 7. " Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him ; for they shall eat the fruit... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...his bloodless offering had produced in him, He reasoned with him on the subject and said, Gen iv. 7, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted; and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: " the meaning of which seems to be this, " If thou wast not a a transgressor, thy acceptance would... | |
| John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...which from numberless other passages appears to have been also the case after the fall. Gen. iv. 7. if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, or, the punishment of sin watcheth for thee. Exod. xxxii. 32, 33. blot me, I pray thee, out of thy... | |
| James Thomas Law - 1825 - 386 pages
...though at first perhaps obscurely, to the guilty Cain. " If thou doest well," said the Lord unto him, " shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, (ie the punishment of sin will surely await thee) '"." " Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied,... | |
| Abigail Mott - 1825 - 104 pages
...brother's offering was more acceptable than his own ; was it not said to him, " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." The royal Psalmist, when speaking of the goodness of the Lord, of which he appears to have been very... | |
| 1825 - 600 pages
...on that topic," (p. 45.)he proceeds to review the text relating to Cain. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, SIN LIETH AT THE DOOR :" where the clause in capitals is rendered by Archbishop Magee, " a sin-offering lieth at the door,"... | |
| Thomas William Lancaster - 1825 - 494 pages
...1. ver. 8. of the most learned and able expositors of the original text. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be " accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at " the doorb." Of the expositors to whom I refer, it is the decided judgment, that the word which is here... | |
| William Magee - 1825 - 548 pages
...and the acceptance of Abel's. The words in the present version are, ifthou doest ivellr shall tfwu not be accepted? — and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door* — which words, as they stand connected in the context, supply no very satisfactory meaning, and have... | |
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