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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · envy, jealousy, and resentment · envy as cause of violence · crime and punishment · cain and abel · accepted sacrifice by fire
Usually: narrative (1) · deception discovered (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1) · lament (1)
Adam sees Cain and Abel: one brother offers first fruits sincerely and his sacrifice is accepted, while the other is rejected and driven by envy to murder, revealing death and the consequences of sin.
New reaped; the other part sheep-walks and folds; I’ the midst an altar as the land-mark stood, Rustick, of grassy sord; thither anon A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf, Unculled, as came to hand; a shepherd next, More meek, came with the firstlings of his flock, Choicest and best; then, sacrificing, laid The inwards and their fat, with incense strowed, On the c…