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Isaac was eminently a type of Christ; but throughout the whole of this instance how beautiful and striking! Look at the father; can anything be more analogous than Abraham's conduct and our heavenly Father's? Why did God say to Abraham, "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah: and offer him there for a burnt-offering"? Why did He make Abraham himself prepare all the materials? Why did He make him take the knife himself, and the fire in his hand? Because it was exactly what our heavenly Father Himself has done, and because it was to be an appeal to our feelings, that we might have some understanding of what our Father has done. Did not our Father take His Son, His only Son, whom He loved, and offer him up upon a Mount, as a burnt-offering for us? Did He not take the knife? Did He not say, "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd"? Did He not Himself bruise that Son? "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him." Did He not Himself lay on that Son all those afflictions, and Himself literally cause that death, that His own demands and justice might be satisfied for your transgressions and mine? The parallel runs entirely through the deed. Thus He prepared the Son; He prepared a body for Him; He sent Him into the world, sent afflictions on Him, bruised Him, grieved Him, unsheathed the sword against Him, and made Him a burnt-offering in the furnace of His own wrath. Where shall we find the Lamb? This is what perplexed Isaac, and what perplexed the whole universe. "My son," said Abraham, "God will provide Himself a Lamb." So He did. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotton Son"; and therefore, when He came, "Behold the Lamb of God." said his precursor, "that taketh away the sin of the world."

(C. Molyneux, B. A.)

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KJV: And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

WEB: Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.