...ultimate and inevitable consequences of vice, and happiness the sure result of obedience and virtue. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door:" Gen. iv, 7. " Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him ; for they shall eat the fruit...

...his bloodless offering had produced in him, He reasoned with him on the subject and said, Gen iv. 7, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted; and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: " the meaning of which seems to be this, " If thou wast not a a transgressor, thy acceptance would...

...part. The general strain of scripture promises, both in the Old and New Testament, is conditional. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ?...and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen 4. 7. "Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a eurse: a blessing if ye obey the commandments...

...though at first perhaps obscurely, to the guilty Cain. " If thou doest well," said the Lord unto him, " shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, (ie the punishment of sin will surely await thee) '"." " Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied,...

...brother's offering was more acceptable than his own ; was it not said to him, " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." The royal Psalmist, when speaking of the goodness of the Lord, of which he appears to have been very...

...on that topic," (p. 45.)he proceeds to review the text relating to Cain. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, SIN LIETH AT THE DOOR :" where the clause in capitals is rendered by Archbishop Magee, " a sin-offering lieth at the door,"...

...and the acceptance of Abel's. The words in the present version are, ifthou doest ivellr shall tfwu not be accepted? — and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door* — which words, as they stand connected in the context, supply no very satisfactory meaning, and have...

...1. ver. 8. of the most learned and able expositors of the original text. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be " accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at " the doorb." Of the expositors to whom I refer, it is the decided judgment, that the word which is here...

...nothing that the seed of the serpent could bring would come up as a memorial before Him. Verse 7 : "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ?...and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door," &c. As previously shown, it is the motive that is looked at here. In the same 4th verse of the llth...

...sacrifice, would lead him to infer, that repentance was available only through sacrifice and a Redeemer. If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well, sin (ie the punishment of it) lieth at the door; (ie near at hand, ready to overtake thee.) This declaration...