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Genesis 4:3

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3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.

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Arcana Coelestia #432

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432. Verse 24 For sevenfold will Cain be avenged, and Lamech seventy-sevenfold.

This means that men annihilated the faith meant by 'Cain', which it was utterly forbidden to violate; that at the same time they annihilated charity, which born by means of faith, something even more inviolable; and that on account of this, condemnation followed, which is 'being avenged seventy-sevenfold'.

  
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