...thick and fast, yet there was in them more of joy than of sorrow. She read how God said to Abraham, " Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou...there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains that I will tell thee of;" and it seemed as though God had spoken to her the same words. Then when...

...which appeals more powerfully to our sympathies than the narrative of this trial of Abraham's faith, " Take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac, whom thou...into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burntoffering upon one of the mountains that I will tell thee of." The order of words in the original,...

...his brethren p. 247 LECTURE XIV. God's Temptation of Abraham vindicated. PART I. GEN. xxii. 1, 2. It came to pass after these things, that God did tempt...Behold, here I am. • .... And he said, Take now thy sou, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and gel thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him therefor...

...he describes God as saying to Abraham, "Take now thy son, thy Jehid or " Jeoud, ie thine only son, whom thou lovest, " and get thee into the land of...offering upon one " of the mountains which I will tell thee of." This only son was born, according to the ancient tradition, of a nymph called Anobret, or...

...design in view. And what that design was, we are told in the verse before the text. " And it came ,o pass, after these things, that God did tempt Abraham,...Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son," &,c. By tempting here, we are to understand the same as trying or proving. God meant by the command...

...mysterious to carnal reason, and even to a weak faith, must the command given to Abraham have been ! " Take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac whom thou...of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." The terms of the command are sacrificial and Abraham...

...object of this gracious visitation, behold, O Lord, I am here, thy servant, to obey ! " And the Almighty said, " Take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac, whom...into the land of Moriah : and offer him there for a burnt-offering, upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." On the annunciation of this dreadful...

...enter not into temptation : The spirit indeed it willing, but the flesh is weak. Matt. xxvi. 41. And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt...unto him, Abraham : and he said, Behold, here I am, Gen. xjrii. 1 . And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years...

...God did "' '"' "' ' tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham : and he said, * Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac,...offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 5T And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young...

...comprehended the several mountains which are round about Jerusalem. Hence, God said to Abraham, " Take thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and...offering, upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of," Gen. xxii. 12. On the division of Judea among the twelve tribes, it so happened that, small...