. The Bible and its . ice to prove his devotion to God. MoreoverAbraham was given time to think of all that he waslosing. The offering was to be made on Mount Mo-riah, at the end of a three days journey from Abra-hams southern home. INIount ISIoriah is supposed to have been on thesite of Jerusalem, the very spot where Solomon af-terward built his temple, where Jesus preached, andwhere the Jews worship to this day—the chief altarof the world. In the picture, the artist endeavors toreconstruct the holy hillside as it may have appearedin those old days, before Jerusalem existed. And Abrah
. The Bible and its . ice to prove his devotion to God. MoreoverAbraham was given time to think of all that he waslosing. The offering was to be made on Mount Mo-riah, at the end of a three days journey from Abra-hams southern home. INIount ISIoriah is supposed to have been on thesite of Jerusalem, the very spot where Solomon af-terward built his temple, where Jesus preached, andwhere the Jews worship to this day—the chief altarof the world. In the picture, the artist endeavors toreconstruct the holy hillside as it may have appearedin those old days, before Jerusalem existed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, andsaddled his ass. To Sarah, the lads devoted mother,he apparently said nothing. WTiat could he say?He set out almost secretly with Isaac and two at-tendants. When on the third day he reached thefoot of Moriah, he dismissed the attendants, placedon young Isaacs shoulders the wood for the fire,and, accompanied only by the boy, beganthe slow ascent, despairing of heart butif^A still l^lje Offering of Ssiaac BY THE FLORENTINE MASTER, ANDREA DELSARTO, CALLED THE FAULTLESS PAINTER. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, andbehold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by hishorns.—Gen., 22, 13. FOLLOWING Gods command, Abraham builta rude stone altar upon Mount had questioned him on the way,Behold the fire and the wood; but where is thelamb for a burnt offering? To the lads un-suspecting chatter, the father could only an-swer sadly and heavily, that God would provide theoffering. The historian Josephus tells us that atthis time Isaac was a man of twenty-five; but theBible gives no hint of his age beyond the fact that hisattitude throughout is youthful. Abraham bound himupon the altar; and Abraham stretched forth hishand, and took the knife to slay his son. So far only did God test His servant and chosenfriend. The actual murder of Isaac was no part ofHis intent. Suddenly an angel from heaven stayedAbrahams uplifted kni
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