OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 22:5

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Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”

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Verse 5. Will return. He hoped, perhaps, that God would restore Isaac to life: (Hebrews 11:19) and he could not well express himself otherwise to the men, who were not acquainted with the divine decree. Calmet.

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