Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 4:2
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Genesis4:2
2. And she again bare his Brother Abel : and Abel was a Keeper of Sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground .
Signifying vanity, a vain, mortal, miserable man, whereas she thought Cain to be more than an ordinary man: or this name might prophetically design his miserable life, and untimely and unnatural death.
Which was esteemed a more honourable calling than that of a Shepherd, and therefore either chosen by the Elder Brother, or allotted to him by his Father.
Marginal references: Heb. Hebel.; Heb. a feeder.
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