Sin

SIN, Gen 4:7, is the transgression of the law of God. 1 John 3:4. All unrighteousness is sin. 1 John 5:17. The word is sometimes used for a sin offering, as in Hos 4:8;Rom 8:3; 2 Cor 5:21. In the text first cited reference is had to the eating, either from greediness or in violation of the Law, of that which was brought as a sin offering. The Bible traces the introduction of sin to the fall of our first parents. There is none sinless. But sins differ in enormity. John distinguishes the "sin not unto death" and "the sin unto death." 1 John 5:16. The verse teaches that a man can drive out God's Spirit from his heart and cut himself off from all intercession. There is also an "unpardonable" sin. Matt 12:31-32. This is the result of absolute resistance to the operation and influence of the Holy Spirit upon the heart; it is final impenitence, excluding the possibility of conversion, and hence of forgiveness.

SIN (mire), a city of Northern Egypt, known to the Greeks as Pelusium. It was "the strength," or stronghold, "of Egypt." Eze 30:15-16. The city was situated upon the most easterly mouth of the Nile, only a few miles from the sea. A Sallier papyrus records a great battle at Sin between Barneses and the Sheta, and the reputed wonderful deliverance of Sethos from Sennacherib - when mice gnawed the Assyrian bowstrings and shields by night, rendering the arms of the Assyrians useless - took place near this town. Herodotus reports a statue of Sethos with a mouse in his hands standing in Vulcan's temple, probably in commemoration of this deliverance by mice. Ezekiel's prophecy, "Sin shall have great pain," was fulfilled by the great cruelty inflicted upon the Egyptians by Cambyses, who conquered them near this city. The site of Sin, or Pelusium, may be marked by some mounds at el-Farma, though some suppose it is at Aboo Kheeyar, west of the old Pelusiac branch of the Nile.