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King James Bible - Genesis 22:12

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:12

Y dijo: No extiendas tu mano sobre el muchacho, ni le hagas nada; que ahora conozco que temes a Dios, pues que no me rehusaste tu hijo, tu único;

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:12

Verse 12. Lay not thine hand upon the lad] As Isaac was to be the representative of Jesus Christ's real sacrifice, it was sufficient for this purpose that in his own will, and the will of his father, the purpose of the immolation was complete. Isaac was now fully offered both by his father and by himself. The father yields up the son, the son gives up his life; on both sides, as far as will and purpose could go, the sacrifice was complete.God simply spares the father the torture of putting the knife to his son's throat. Now was the time when it might properly be said, ""Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offering, and sacrifice for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure in them: then said the Angel of the Covenant, Lo! I come to do thy will, O God."" Lay not thy hand upon the lad; an irrational creature will serve for the purpose of a representative sacrifice, from this till the fullness of time. But without this most expressive representation of the father offering his beloved, only- begotten son, what reference can such sacrifices be considered to have to the great event of the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ? Abraham, the most dignified, the most immaculate of all the patriarchs; Isaac, the true pattern of piety to God and filial obedience, may well represent God the Father so loving the world as to give his only-begotten Son, JESUS CHRIST, to die for the sin of man. But the grand circumstances necessary to prefigure these important points could not be exhibited through the means of any or of the whole brute creation.The whole sacrificial system of the Mosaic economy had a retrospective and prospective view, referring FROM the sacrifice of Isaac TO the sacrifice of Christ; in the first the dawning of the Sun of righteousness was seen; in the latter, his meridian splendour and glory. Taken in this light (and this is the only light in which it should be viewed) Abraham offering his son Isaac is one of the most important facts and most instructive histories in the whole Old Testament. See farther on this subject, chap. xxiii. 2.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 11-14 - It was not God's intention that Isaac should actually be sacrificed yet nobler blood than that of animals, in due time, was to be shed for sin, even the blood of the only begotten Son of God. But in the mea while God would not in any case have human sacrifices used. Anothe sacrifice is provided. Reference must be had to the promised Messiah the blessed Seed. Christ was sacrificed in our stead, as this ra instead of Isaac, and his death was our discharge. And observe, tha the temple, the place of sacrifice, was afterwards built upon this sam mount Moriah; and Calvary, where Christ was crucified, was near. A ne name was given to that place, for the encouragement of all believers to the end of the world, cheerfully to trust in God, and obey him Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide; probably alluding to what Abraha had said, God will provide himself a lamb. The Lord will always have his eye upon his people, in their straits and distresses, that he ma give them seasonable help.

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Original Hebrew

ויאמר 559 אל 408 תשׁלח 7971 ידך 3027 אל 413 הנער 5288 ואל 408 תעשׂ 6213 לו  מאומה 3972  כי 3588  עתה 6258  ידעתי 3045  כי 3588  ירא 3373  אלהים 430  אתה 859  ולא 3808  חשׂכת 2820  את 853  בנך 1121  את 853  יחידך 3173  ממני׃ 4480