John Trapp on 1 John 3:12

Verſe 12. Who Was of that Wicked one] Tertullian calleth Cain the devils Patriarch. Cain is dead, faith another, but I could wiſh that he did not ſtill live in his heirs and executours,Bucbol. Qui clavam ejus ſanguine Abelis rubentem, u[illegible: 1 letter] rem ſacram circumf[illegible: 1 letter]runt, adorant & venerantur, who bear about and make uſe of Cains club, to knock on the head Gods righteous Abels.

And ſlew his brother] Gr. Cut his throat. Acerbiſſima ſunt odia (ut ita nominem) ſaith one, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Theſe Divinity hatreds are moſt deadly.

Becauſe his own Works, &c.] The old enmity, Gen. 3.15. So Numb. 22.3, 4. Moab Was irked, becauſe of Iſrael, or did fret and vex at them, as Exod, 1.12. yet hey were allied, and paſſed by them in peace, and, by the ſlaughter of the Amorites, freed them from evil neighbours, which had taken away part of their Land, and might do more, as one bath well obſerved.