 | 1871 - 592 страници
...nothing that the seed of the serpent could bring would come up as a memorial before Him. Verse 7 : "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ?...and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door," &c. As previously shown, it is the motive that is looked at here. In the same 4th verse of the llth... | |
 | 1826 - 608 страници
...sacrifice, would lead him to infer, that repentance was available only through sacrifice and a Redeemer. If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well, sin (ie the punishment of it) lieth at the door; (ie near at hand, ready to overtake thee.) This declaration... | |
 | 1822 - 814 страници
...the blessing aud the curse set before Cain, in these memorable words : " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." The succeeding Patriarchs lived under the influence of these divine sanctions. " Noah was a just man,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 426 страници
...and why is thy countenance fallen; and mercifully given him encouragement, If thou doest well shall thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. thee shall be his desire, and thou shall rule * Jewish story tells us, that the dispute arose from... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - 1826 - 170 страници
...directed, not to the mode of their Sacrifice, but to the good and evil doings of their respective lives." " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest evil, sin lieth at the door." Thus also our Saviour directs us to " the blood of the righteous Abel."... | |
 | 1826 - 568 страници
...established version ; and so we lose a certain for an uncertain benefit. The Bible translation runs thus : If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou docst not well, sin lieth at the door ; therefore the inference is, turn from doing ill and learn to... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 548 страници
...thine offspring, not because of any absolute decree of mine, but because of thy sin. Chap. iv. 7, " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Sin only, not the decree of reprobation, hinders thy being accepted. Deut. vii. 9, " Know that the... | |
 | Abigail F. Mott - 1827 - 144 страници
...changed, because his brother's offering was more acceptable than his own; ,was it not said to him, " If thou doest well, shalt 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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1827 - 340 страници
...that the two masculine pronouns, in the concluding clause of the expostulation, ought to be referred. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And,, if thou doest not well, A SIN-OFFERING lieth couching at the door : and, unto thee, is ITS desire; and thou shalt rule over... | |
 | M. Hurry - 1828 - 146 страници
...were rejected. " And the Lord said unto him, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door?" Instead of profiting from this reproof, so justly deserved, Cain went out from the presence of the... | |
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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. 
