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Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
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Isaac Prefigures Christ
Commentators widely see Isaac as a type of Christ. Just as Isaac, a grown man, carried the wood for his own sacrifice, Jesus carried His own cross to Calvary. Scholars like John Gill suggest the wood also symbolizes our sins, which were laid upon Christ to be consumed by the fire of God's judgment.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
2. מריה morı̂yâh — “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; Septuagint, ὑψηλή hupsēlē — Onkelos, “w…
19th Century
Baptist
And 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;
Tha…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering Which Josephus F1 says was laid upon the ass, and carried…
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