Augustine's comparison of Cain with the Jews and Abel with Christ (or his church) seems rather good to me. Many protestants, however, reject it maybe just because Augustine was Catholic.
So where does it say that Eve was cast out from the garden of Eden?
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Gen 3:23-24
It doesn't. It says that the man was sent forth from the garden if you interpret the male and female were created man and woman.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,Matt 19:4
So if Cain when out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden where he knew his wife and built a city called Enoch, then who is Nod and where did he come from? And where did Cain's wife come from since it wasn't until men began to multiple upon the face of the earth that daughter were born unto them.
"And it came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them,..." Gen 6:1
The Jews deep inside knew that God was pleased with Jesus and that's why they got jealous and killed Him.
So if they knew that God was pleased with Jesus then that would indicate that the truth is that Jesus was not the same person as God?
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31
But it is written in Isaiah 53:10;
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
So did Jesus say that he could destroy the temple of God and build it back in three days? If so why where the two witnesses who said he said that he did say it considered to be false witnesses?
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
60 But found none:
yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Matt 26:59-61
So are those who say that Jesus said I am able to destroy the temple of God and build it back in three days false witnesses?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 2:19-21
It seems that Jesus said that if they destroyed his body that in three days he would raise it up. Jesus never said anything raising up the temple in Jerusalem built by Cyrus, the King of the Persians.
If Augustine's interpretation is wrong, what would be the correct one?
Knowing this first that no prophesy of scripture is of any private interpretation, if Abel represents the Christians, then if to be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD then why is it written that the LORD said to Cain that the voice of his brother cried unto him from the ground?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. Gen 4:10
So if Eve is the mother of all living, then who is she that opened her mouth to receive the blood of Abel?
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Gen 4:11
