God even tells Cain not to get upset about it- these things happen. Genesis doesn’t tell us why one is favored and one isn’t, and that’s part of the point. The story starts with the two brothers offering sacrifices to God-Abel’s is accepted, and Cain’s is rejected. One place where the parallel with the biblical story is pretty apt, though, is in the rationale for Cain’s murder of Abel: jealousy. In getting rid of one enemy, you often make many others. It’s hard to imagine that Scaramucci wouldn’t similarly be viewed by some in the White House and the Republican Party as a hatchetman if Priebus gets the ax. In fact, having killed his sibling, Cain is suddenly terrified that anywhere he goes, people will look at him as a murderer, and will seek to kill him for his crime. As for Cain, nothing good comes of Abel’s death. When God hears Abel’s blood “crying from the ground,” Cain is punished, cursed to fail in his future farming endeavors, and told that he will be “a ceaseless wanderer on the earth.”Ībel is virtually defined by his innocence. Though God warns Cain to control his temper, Cain kills Abel out in the field. God favors Abel’s offering, which distresses Cain.
It’s a story about entirely unjustified premeditated murder.įor those unfamiliar with the tale, a brief recap: The brothers Cain and Abel, a farmer and a cowhand, and the offspring of Adam and Eve, each bring an offering to God. This isn’t a story about crime and punishment, where Abel gets what’s coming to him. But it’s not really a great analogy for him, either. In that reading of the comment, Priebus perishes, which may well be what Scaramucci had in mind. Given the widely reported tensions between the two emerging West Wing rivals, most commentators quickly pointed out that Scaramucci’s Old Testament reference looks like a pretty direct threat to his “brother”: After all, in Genesis, Cain kills Abel.
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