seven-fold] That is, (as the Chaldee Paraphrase hath it) unto the seventh generation; or, he shall have manifold punishments: a certaine number used for an uncertaine: as Leviticus 26:28. Job 5:19. Psalms 79:12. Proverbs 24:16. &Chap. 26. 25. Jeremiah 5:9. and this God saith not for any love he bare to Cain, to whom life with the guilt of such a sinne, and sense of the Divine wrath was worse then a temporall death; but because he would have him live to be a living memento, or warning against murder, which with the death of the malefactor is commonly buried in oblivion, as Psalms 59:11. Ecclesiastes 9:5. marke] There are many, and some foolish conjectures of this marke: It is most like that it was a trembling not onely of his heart, but of his head and other parts, with a gastly countenance importing guilt and terrour in him, and imprinting it so farre in others that they durst not doe by him as he did by his brother.