...on the word Cherubim." * Cain, signifies Possession, for she fondly hoped that this son might prove the seed of the woman who was to bruise the serpent's head. " I have gotten the Man-Jehovah,'1 so some render the sentence ; but she was greatly mistaken, for...

...such as Adam and Enoch, and Noah and Job, and Abraham. These knew much. Adam looked to Christ as " the seed of the woman," who was to bruise the serpent's head. Enoch prophesied of His coming to judgment. Noah was expressly called " a preacher of righteousness."...

...rendered. And she called him Cain (which signifies possession), fondly hoping that this son might prove the seed of the woman who was to bruise the serpent's head. . •• . . : • . • i •;.;.:. When our imagination is powerfully impressed by ariy great object,...

...phrase must have been too general to express that person who was to be, in a most peculiar manner, the seed of the woman who was to bruise the serpent's head. This prophecy can never be done away, nor its application to him about whom Paul was writing : but...

...advent, had some knowledge of Christ, and of the design of his coming. Indeed the first promise of the seed of the woman, who was to bruise the serpent's head, graciously given to our first parents, shed some rays of light on this mysterious and glorious subject....

...That faith by which Abel obtained testimony thathe was righteous, was faith in the promise respecting the Seed of the Woman, who was to bruise the serpent's head, when the serpent also should bruise his heel. For to thig point the whole of the Apostle's argumentation...

...the heart It was for this cause that Eve was tempted in a personal conversation ; so also was tempted the seed of the woman, who was to bruise the serpent's head. To shew, however, still more clearly the evident parallel that exists, between the temptations of the...

...of grace first offered to mankind in paradise, when the great Berith, or Purifier, was promised, as the seed of the woman who was to bruise the serpent's head ; and therefore it was, that here they connected the fire-tower Tavpor, of the god Baal-Berith, with...

...was so even among that generation to whom God at first revealed himself as a God of grace, througb the seed of the woman, who was to " bruise the serpent's head." Gen. iv 26. Public prayer was a part of the worship which Gori instituted among the Jews in the wilderness,...

...heart. It was for this cause that Eve was tempted in a personal conversation ; so also was tempted the seed of the woman, who was to bruise the serpent's head. To shew, however, still more clearly the evident parallel that exists, between the temptations of the...