(Horatius Bonar, "The Way Of Cain")
"Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain . . ."
Jude 11
Cain is not an atheist, nor an altogether irreligious man.
He acknowledges a God, and brings his fruits to the altar.
But he brings no lamb, no blood, nothing that speaks of death.
He comes with no confession, no cry for mercy.
He has a religion, but it is self made; a human
religion,
something of his own; without Christ, or blood, or pardon.
Rejection of God's religion, and of His Messiah; this is
"the way of Cain."
"Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain . . ."
Jude 11