Part 6 (1/2)

* The fables of the rabbins cause Luther double work and why he occasionally cites them 218.

* Whether G.o.d changed his judgment upon Cain 219.

* Why G.o.d still showed Cain incidental grace 219.

* The fables of the Jews concerning Cain's death and Lamech's punishment 220-221.

* It is foolish to dispute concerning the sevenfold vengeance to be visited upon the one who slew Cain 222.

* The divine promises.

a. They are twofold, of the law and of grace 223.

b. The promise Adam received 224.

c. Whether G.o.d gave Cain one of these promises 224-225.

d. The kind of promises well organized police stations have 226.

e. The promises the Church has 227.

f. Cain's promise is temporal, incidental and incomplete 227.

* Was Cain murdered 228.

6. How Cain had cause to fear, even though there were no people on the earth except Adam and Eve and his sisters 229-230.

* The sign that is put upon Cain.

a. Can anything definite be said of it. What the fathers thought of it 231.

b. Why this sign was placed upon him 232.

c. How he had to carry it his whole life 232.

d. How the sign was a confirmation and a promise of the law 233.

7. Of Cain's departure, and his excommunication from the presence of Jehovah.

a. The first parents in obedience to G.o.d made Cain an outcast 234-235.

b. How the first parents overcame their parental affections in expelling Cain 236.

* What should urge men to flee from their false security 237.

c. His expulsion must have pierced Cain to the heart 238.

* What is the presence of Jehovah 238.

d. How he went from the presence of Jehovah, to be without that presence 239.