Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 4:1
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Genesis4:1
1. AND Adam knew Eve his Wife, and she Conceived and bare Cain , and said, I have gotten a Man from the LORD .
This modest expression is used both in Scripture and other Authours to signifie the Conjugal act or Carnal knowledge. So Gen. 19. 8. and 24. 16. Numb. 31. 17. Matth. 1. 25. Luk. 1. 34.
Whose name signifies a possession.
A Male Child, as Gen. 7. 2. which was most welcome.
Or, By or with the Lord, (i. e.) By vertue of his first blessing, Gen. 1. 28. and special favour. Or, a man the Lord, as the words properly signifie, q. d. God-man, or the Messias, hoping that this was the promised Seed.
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