He My Plea Is Ben a Plea

In genesis four 13, cane does not say, my punishment is greater than i can bear. He actually says, gave aroni meso, my sin is greater than I can bear. It's the same line of reasoning that dostoyevsky pursued in crime and punishment. In crime and punishment, raskolnikov gets away with murder, and then he cannot stand it. So this also is reflected in the following verse in four 14, where he states the consequences of his actions meanling that god's presence will be hidden from him and that he will be killed. The verse opens with the word hain, which means indeed, more or less, and denotes a sense