from the presence] Some thinke these words are sitted to Cains conceit, who now Atheist-like thought he could get out of the reach of Gods revenging hand; but it is more probable that by his going from the presence of the Lord is meant his going from the place where God gave evidence of his presence in his conference with him: See Jonah 1:3. Or, from his presence: that is, from that part or quarter of the world where God had his Church, which is the place of his speciall presence: and so the phrase intimates Cains banishment from his native habitation, and his excommunication from the house of God: for the place of his especiall presence may be called an house, though it be not made with wals and windowes, and roofe, as ours are, See Annot. on Chap. 28. 17. Nod] So called here by the figure Prolepsis, or anticipation in respect of the order of things: for it was called the land of Nod, not before, but after; and that by occasion of Cains comming thither, and dwelling there upon his fugitive and vagabond condition: Nod is derived from an Hebrew root signifying to wander, or to be a vagabond: as vers. 12. God doometh him.