[47] On which account we read in a subsequent passage, "Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him." [35] For according to the first imagination, he suggests the idea that Abel has been killed. But if you look at it according to the most accurate investigation, you will see that the intimates that Cain himself was slain by himself, so that we ought to read it thus: "Cain rose up and killed himself," and not the other.