Jerry Cain coached the team from Stanford University in Palo Alto,California.

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God prefers the offering of Abel, and as a result Cain is distressed and jealous to the point of murder.

上帝经常给亚伯恩典,结果，引发了该隐的嫉妒之心，起了杀意。

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Note also that Cain is culpable, and for someone to be culpable of something we have to assume some principle that they have violated.

该隐是有罪的,对那些将要犯罪的人,我们制定了了一些规则。

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What was Romulus' murder of Remus or Cain's murder of Abel, ? but the kind of murder that founded, at the basis of the founding of cities and civilizations?

罗慕洛斯谋杀双胞胎兄弟雷摩斯,或该隐弒杀亲弟埃布尔，不都是为了创建而为的谋杀吗,为了创建城市及人类文明？

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Before we leave this story and move onto Cain and Abel I just want to make a couple of quick observations.

在我们开始该隐和亚伯之前,我想做个简短的评论。

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Abel is a keeper of sheep. He represents the nomadic pastoralist, unlike Cain who is the tiller of soil, so he represents more settled urban life.

亚伯是一个牧羊人，代表着不断迁徙的牧场主，而该隐是一个农夫，他代表在城市定居的人。

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And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?"--in fact, he's right on the money.

当读到这一段的时候，你能感觉到其中的讽刺意味,尽管该隐的回答是一个设问句,“难道我是他的看守吗？“，事实上，指钱的话，他说的是对的。

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Now the murder of Abel by Cain is followed by some genealogical lists.

现在该隐杀亚伯有了后续版本。

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We can connect it with the fact that God has created humans in his own image, but the God-endowed sanctity of human life is an assumption, and it's the violation of that assumption which makes Cain culpable.

这点可以与上帝按照自己的意愿，造出人类联系起来,但是人类的神圣性，只是一个臆断,如果臆断是真的话,该隐的罪行就违背了这种说法。

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The Cain and Abel story which is in Genesis 4:1 through 16 this is the story of the first murder, and it's a murder that happens despite God's warning to Cain that it's possible to master the urge to violence by an act of will.

创世纪》第四章，1到16节，讲述的是该隐和亚伯的故事6,这是人类历史上第一宗谋杀案,尽管上帝警告该隐,邪念会让人暴力相向。

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