Book Title: Imagines elegantissimae : quae multum lucis ad intelligendus doctrinae Christianae locos adferre possunt, Collectae, partim ex praelectionibus Domini Philippi Melanthonis, partim ex scriptis Partrum / a Iohanne Cogelero, Verbi diuini ministro Stetini ; cum praefatione D. Georgij Maioris

Author: Cogelerus, Johannes, fl. 1558-1588

Image Title: Cain and Abel

Scripture Reference:

• Genesis 4 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Cain and Abel present an offering to God, while in the foreground Cain murders Abel in a fit of jealousy after God prefers his brother’s offering to his own, as an illustration of the violation of the fifth commandment: "Thou shalt not kill".

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