...seemed determined to exaggerate its severity, and thereby to enhance these doubts and difficulties. " Take now thy son, thine only son ISAAC, whom thou...Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt-offering." Among the thoughts and soliloquies of the holy patriarch on thii occasion, would not the follow ing...

...seemed determined to' exaggerate its severity, and thereby to enhance these doubts and difficulties. " Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou...Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt-offering." Among the thoughts and soliloquies of the htoly patriarch on this occasion, would not the following...

...pure worship recommended by the Deity himself, he unexpectedly received this paralyzing command : " Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest,...into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of!"* Abraham, though doubtless thunderstruck...

...Lord. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said onto him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, take...into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thec of. Accordingly, when they came to...

...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...there for a burntoffering upon one of the mountains that I will tell thee of." The order of words in the original, says Bishop Warburton, gradually increases...

...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...into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains that I will tell thee of;" and it seemed as though God had...

...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...upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." On the annunciation of this dreadful command, which could have been little anticipated, it is remarkable...

...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...into the land 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...

...this command in Gen. xxii. 2. Every word of which hath a singular emphasis, and deserves attention : " take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou...upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." ... Take now thy son.~] Not a beast for a sacrifice, not any of the best of his great store of cattle,...

...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,...into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 5T And Abraham rose up early...