CAN anything be more interesting than the details of this well-known story of how the long-promised son was taken at God's command to the Mount of Moriah? The unfaltering actions of his aged father as he rose up early in the morning, saddled his asses, and prepared all for the journey.
What thoughts were passing through Abraham's mind we are unable to tell, as they are not recorded, but he evidently felt the solemnity of God's command which he was about to carry out, for he said nothing to the lad beyond the fact that they were to sacrifice to God on the mountain, How must his heart have felt when his boy, in all childish simplicity, said, "Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Yet though they were drawing nigh to the place, and seemed to be near to the mount where the boy must die, in accordance with the divine word, Abraham calmly replied, "God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering."
And God stepped in just at the last moment to save the lad by pointing to a ram caught in the thicket.