13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: …
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: …
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. …
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)Hitherto this story has been very melancholy, and seemed to hasten towards a most tragical period; but here the sky suddenly clears up, the sun breaks out, and a bright and pleasant scene opens. The same hand that had wounded and cast down here heals and lifts up; for, though he cause grief, he will have compassion. The angel of the Lord , that is, God himself, the eternal Word, the angel of the c…
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