We leave Cain protected in primal history; on Good Friday we will find him redeemed. Cain, the one who acted out the exact opposite of an embrace, whose body went “forth totally against the other body in an intention to . . . kill it” (Gurevitch 1990, 199), will be drawn near and embraced by the Crucified. Will the embrace of the Crucified heal Cain of envy, hatred, and the desire to kill? In de Unamuno’s “Abel Sanchez” Joaquín Monegro tells his wife Antonia, a saint, that she could not cure him because he did not love her (de Unamuno 1956, 175). In a sense, the same can be said of every Cain:
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