...heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac...and he that had received the promises offered up his onlybegotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : 19 Accounting that...

...v. 18. "Obeyed." This instance of obedience is referred to and approved, Heb. ix. 17. to 19. " T*y faith Abraham, when he «• was tried, offered up...and he that " had received the promises, offered up" (ie was ready to offer up) " his only '< begotten son, of whom it was said, that " in Isaac shall thy...

...Abraham did fully perform what God had commanded. — So Hebr. xi. 17; "By faith Abraham, when lie was tried, offered up Isaac : And he that had received the promises offered up his only son." — So James ii. 21 ; " Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac...

...wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; because he hath prepared for them 17 a city. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac ; and he that had received the 18 promises offered up his only-begotten son, Of whom it was said, " That by Isaac shall thy 19 seed...

...exercise of the noblest confidence in God, in earnest to slay his son at the command of God, and " accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead," though there had never then been in the world an example of one rising from the dead. Thus in parables,...

...nations of the earth in his seed, although that son was then to be cut off, before he had any children, ' accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead.' And as to the rectitude of the matter commanded, he did not say, like a modern, is not God indispensably...

...has epitomised the narrative of Genesis in his epistle to the Hebrews, chap. xi. 17—19. He says, "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac...from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure." There are also other allusions to the narrative in the epistles of St. Paul, which we shall...

...received the command to forbear;) and he that had received the promises, offered up his only hegotten son, of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy...God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. Abraham believed that, rather than the promises of God should fail, he would raise up Isaac from the...

...productive of, all holiness of life and conversation. St. Paul viewed the matter exactly in the same light : by faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac...received the promises, offered up his only begotten son, Heb. xi. 17- Observe, his receiving of the promises (by which faith, or reception, he was divinely...

...is clearly and justly collected from this history by the author to the Hebrews, chap. xi. 17 — 1Q. By faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac...received the promises offered up his only begotten, of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called, accounting or reasoning that God was able...