...arrived at the fatal spot where this * bloody tragedy was to be acted, Isaac with solicitude observes. " Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering." Abraham, as if conscience convicted, evades a direct answer by declarig that God...

...38 ) A foundation of the world ;*" and, likewise, frorrflsaac's question to his father, Abraham ; " Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ?-f-" and it was particularly dignified under the Mosaical covenant in the commemoration...

...fins of his people. When Ifaac was commanded to be facrificed, he, not knowing it, fays to his Father, Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering ? To which the aged Patriarch replied, My Son, God will provide himfelf a lamb for a burnt -offering....

...begotten son, John iii. 16. Secondly, Isaac was the Lamb appointed for sacrifice ; my Father, said he, where is the Lamb for a burnt-offering ? And Abraham said, my son, God mil provide himself a Lamb, for a burnt-offering. So was Christ the Lamb of God* (John i. 29-) who...

...Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, my father : And he said, here am I, my son. And he said, behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burntWhat force is there in this tender address and this simple question of Isaac — " The heart alone...

...Gen. i. 3. Witness these, " Isaac said, My father ; Abraham answered, Here am I my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb...burnt-offering ? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide him3elf a lamb for a burnt-offering," ch. xxii. 7, 8. Witness these words, " Then Joseph could not...

...sacrifice was to be offered up! What emotions must that question of Isaac have excited in a father's bosom; behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering 1 Gen. xxii. 7. Abraham comes off victorious in all these combats : Abraham binds his son with cords...

...father, had trodden for the same purpose. Christ, indeed, does not say like Abraham's son, " My father, behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering P" He knows what the lamb is which God has provided, and willingly bows to the divine decree. The sitting...

...and estimate of God's eternal Providence. Our thoughts are often like those of Isaac, when he said, " Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb * for a burnt* This strictly means one of the flock, and may indicate either a lamb or a kid, a sheep or a...

...and they went both of them together. 7t And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. My father: Behold the fire and the wood ; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide' himself a lamb for a burnt offering...