“And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.”
When they reach the place God had told him about, Abraham builds an altar, arranges the wood, binds his son Isaac, and lays him on the altar on top of the wood. The steps are recorded with the same careful detail as the preparations in verse 3 — every action deliberate, every action the act of a man fully choosing what he is doing. The binding of Isaac (Hebrew: aqedah) gives this passage its name in Jewish tradition — the binding. Romans 8:32 uses language that echoes this verse: he who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. The application: the binding is the act that makes the faith concrete. Abraham does not merely intend to obey; he binds.
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