Cain (sources)
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Survey of ancient sources on Cain.
Overview
Early Jewish Sources
4 Maccabees
4 Macc 18:11 -- [The mother of seven sons said to her children: "Your father] read to you about Abel slain by Cain...
Early Christian sources
Hebrews
Heb 11:4 -- By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
1 John
1 John 3:12 -- We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
Letter of Jude
Jude 1:11 -- Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion.