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took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Another sacrifice is provided instead of Isaac, Ge 22:13. Now that the altar was built, and the wood laid in order, it was necessary that something should be offered. For,
1. God must be acknowledged with thankfulness for the deliverance of Isaac; and the sooner the better, when here is an altar ready.
2. Abraham's words must be made good: God will provide himself a lamb. God will not disappoint those expectations of his people which are of his own raising; but according to their faith it is to them. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established.
3. Reference must be had to the promised Messiah, the blessed seed.
(1.) Christ was sacrificed in our stead, as this ram instead of Isaac, and his death was our discharge. "Here am I (said he,) let these go their way."
(2.) Though that blessed seed was lately promised, and now typified by Isaac, yet the offering of him up should be suspended till the latter end of the world: and in the meantime the sacrifice of beasts should be accepted, as this ram was, as a pledge of that expiation which should one day be made by that great sacrifice. And it is observable that the temple, the place of sacrifice, was afterwards built upon this mount Moriah (2Ch 3:1); and mount Calvary, where Christ was crucified, was not far off.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is
said to this day, in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. A new name is given to the place, to the honour of God, and for the encouragement of all believers, to the end of the world, cheerfully to trust in God in the way of obedience: Jehovah-jireh, The Lord will provide (Ge 22:14), probably alluding to