6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
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And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? …
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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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