4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
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And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-10)We have here Abraham’s obedience to this severe command. Being tried, he offered up Isaac , Heb. 11:17. Observe, I. The difficulties which he broke through in this act of obedience. Much might have been objected against it; as, 1. It seemed directly against an antecedent law of God, which forbids murder, under a severe penalty, Gen. 9:5 , 6 . Now can the unchangeable God contradict himself? He tha…
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