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8 taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii: 17—19.

Would all these consequences be so fully described, and the one of surpassing importance be concealed? Would God perpetrate a "snap judgment" on his poor deluded creatures? Impossible. Our first parents died in trespasses and sins, as did the prodigal, "in the day" they sinned. The whole penalty to which Adam or any other should ever be liable was fully described, but not a word of endless punishment is there.

The case of Cain is equally explicit. What penalty did the first murderer experience? Here it is fully stated: