Catholic Encyclopedia: Cain
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Description: Commentary on the Biblical killer from the traditional Catholic perspective.
. His name is derived, according to Genesis 4:1, from the root , to possess, being given to him in consequence of the words of his mother at his birth: "I have possessed a man by the favour of the Lord". No very serious objection can be urged against this derivation. The Book of Genesis, interested in this section in the origin of the different occupations of men, tells us that Cain became a husbandman while his brother Abel tended flocks. They both offered to the Lord a sacrifice, acknowledging, in a manner analogous to that later prescribed in the
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