Yes, it cried
unto God for vengeance, as that of sprinkling for
propitiation
and
mercy.
Robert Herrick
Cp. Gregory, _Notes_, p. 28.
201. _Temporal goods._ August., quoted by Burton, II. iii. 3: Dantur
quidem bonis, saith Austin, ne quis mala aestimet, malis autem ne quis
nimis bona.
203. _Speak, did the blood of Abel cry_, etc. Cp. Gregory's _Notes_, pp.
118: "But did the blood of Abel speak? saith Theophylact.
Yes, it cried
unto God for vengeance, as that of sprinkling for
propitiation
and
mercy.
"
204. _A thing of such a reverend reckoning._ Cp. Gregory, 118-9: "The
blood of Abel was so holy and reverend a thing, in the sense and
reputation of the old world, that the men of that time used to swear by
it".
205. _A Position in the Hebrew Divinity._ From Gregory's _Notes_, pp.
134, 5: "That old position in the Hebrew Divinity ... that a repenting
man is of more esteem in the sight of God than one that never fell
away".
206. _The Doctors in the Talmud._ From Gregory's _Notes_, _l.c.
