3rd.: Eve’s Loneliness
After they had been kicked out, Adam knew Eve his wife.
She conceived, and bare a son, which she named Cain, and said,
“I have gotten a man from the Lord.” (Gen. 4:1).
In the Bible, people often named their children after noteworthy events in their lives.
For Eve, life moved fast:
1. Perfect union with God
2. Satan’s deception
3. Severed fellowship with God
4. Intimate relations with her husband
5. First born child.
Eve therefore named her first born son, Cain (or Qayin).
Qayin means ‘lance’ as in ‘striking fast’. The affinity between the words Qayin and Qânâh
(Qânâh means create or gotten [like as in a child]) makes a good source for the name Kajin,
i.e. Cain, her first born (would this be the first pun?).
Some time later, Eve had her second son, “And she again bare his brother Abel.” (Gen. 4.2a)
Abel (hebel) means ‘emptiness’, or ‘vanity’, or with figurative implications, ‘transitory’ and ‘unsatisfactory’.
Did the estrangement between God and Eve finally sink into Eve’s soul?
Did Eve speak her thoughts through the names of her kids?
Was there a heightened sense of emptiness in her soul, because of the schism with God?
If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, no matter had bad the ridicule of others gets,
DO NOT QUIT BELIEVING ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance. (Heb. 6:4-5a)