Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Timshel
It talks about the sixteen verses of the fourth chapter of Genesis regarding the ruling of sin, which Lee notices has different wordings in different Bible versions. One orders the ruling over of sin, one says 'thou shalt' rule over sin, but the main one Lee speaks on is 'thou mayest', which he says gives men the choice to rule over sin or not if they choose; to sin or not to sin. It connects to Cain and Abel because in their story, Cain commits the sin of murder when he kills Abel, an example of choosing sin over non-sin, exercising the choice rather than following the mandate of not sinning. This "Thou Mayest" principle affects Adam by making him think about what the importance of the phrase really holds, which Lee explains to him and Adam sees.
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