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  • As a Cainite, he would view Cain as a good man who invented murder to enable us to deny murder.

    Charlie Rangel (D, NY-15) is a Gnostic Cainite! | RedState 2010

  • Cainite and Sethite forms, are climaxed by the Cainite

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • The Cainite mind-a narrow mind like you said-can't imagine any third horn on that special bull.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • It was a squat, short-shanked, brown-furred version of the other Cainite.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • Cainite biochemistry lacks some of our vitamins, but otherwise a human can get along all right there.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • Must have snatched a club from some fallen Cainite and attacked whatever part of me was handiest, which happened to be my left shin.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • Cainite was devout or at least had better aspirations, or it may be traceable to the borrowing of names by the Cainites from the Sethites.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • This name and that of Lamech are identical in the Cainite and the Sethite line.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • We have shown above how "daughters of men" refers indiscriminately to all "the daughters of mankind," which were unfortunately lumped together by the sons of God without regard to their classification, whether Sethite or Cainite.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Why he should be so called is hard to determine, except that he may have excelled in the use of the spear, but surely not for murderous purposes like Lamech the Cainite.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

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