In Cain Byron demonstrates his interest in using the Bible to critique itself. He sticks close to the letter of his biblical source while engaging directly with traditional scriptural readings including the commonplace combination of the Devil with the serpent who tempts Eve—which Byron’s Lucifer rebuts himself. Byron engages more subtly with the typological equivalence frequently drawn between Abel and Christ, allowing the equivalence to stand but refusing to employ it to legitimize Christianity at the expense of Judaism. Byron thus seeks to rehabilitate two of Genesis’ most reviled characters as part of his search for a credible deliverer of his critique. Cain is juxtaposed with Lucifer and then with his sister Adah and brother Abel. These doublings within the play ultimately demonstrate that Cain is the figure most worthy of conveying Byron’s culminating critique of Christian hypocrisy at the play’s close.

在该隐拜伦展示了他对使用圣经进行自我批评的兴趣。他紧贴圣经来源的文字，同时直接接触传统的经文阅读，包括恶魔与诱惑夏娃的蛇的平凡组合-拜伦的路西法反驳自己。拜伦更巧妙地参与了亚伯和基督之间经常出现的类型上的对等，允许这种对立存在，但拒绝以牺牲犹太教为代价将其合法化。因此，拜伦（Byron）试图修复《创世纪》（Genesis）中最受辱的角色，这是他寻求可靠的批评家的一部分。该隐与路西法并列，然后与他的妹妹阿达和弟弟亚伯并列。