ld be slain 213.

* God shows Cain a double favor in his punishment. Why he does
this 213.

* Whether any of Cain's posterity, under the Old Testament, were
saved 214-215.

5. Whether Cain prayed that he might die, as Augustine, Lyra and
others relate 216-217.

* The fables of the rabbins cause Luther double work and why he
occasionally cites them 218.

* Whether God changed his judgment upon Cain 219.

* Why God still showed Cain incidental grace 219.

* The fables of the Jews concerning Cain's death and Lamech's
punishment 220-221.

* It is foolish to dispute concerning the sevenfold vengeance to
be visited upon the one who slew Cain 222.

* The divine promises.

a. They are twofold, of the law and of grace 223.

b. The promise Adam received 224.

c. Whether God gave Cain one of these promises 224-225.

d. The kind of promises well organized police stations have 226.

e. The promises the Church has 227.

f. Cain's promise is temporal, incidental and incomplete 227.

* Was Cain murdered 228.

6. How Cain had cause to fear, even though there were no people on
the earth except Adam and Eve and his sisters 229-230.

* The sign that is put upon Cain.

a. Can anything definite be said of it. What the fathers thought
of it 231.

b. Why this sign was placed upon him 232.

c. How he had to carry it his whole life 232.

d. How the sign was a confirmation and a promise of the law 233.

7. Of Cain's departure, and his excommunication from the presence
of Jehovah.

a. The first parents in obedience to God made Cain an outcast
234-235.

b. How the first parents overcame their parental affections in
expelling Cain 236.

* What should urge men to flee from their false security 237.

c. His expulsion must have pierced Cain to the heart 238.

* What is the presence of Jehovah 238.

d. How he went from the presence of Jehovah, to be without that
presence 239.

e. It was a sad departure, both for Cain and his parents 240.

f. Whither he resorted 241.

* What meaning of "in the land of Nod" 241.

* Of Paradise.

(1) The deluge very likely destroyed paradise 241.

(2) Where was paradise 242.

* Of the Deluge.