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p/c Isaac Blessing Jacob, (1642), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of wikimedia commons
I was asked a few weeks ago during the Song of Solomon bible study I lead on Sunday mornings to explain what I meant in a passing comment I made about Isaac the patriarch forsaking the covenant.
My basic claim was something like this: For all of Jacob’s other short-comings, failures, sins, he is not acting sinfully or wrongfully during his early encounter with his brother Esau nor in his collusion with his mother to get his father’s (Isaac’s) blessing…
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When Abraham lays Isaac on the altar, he hears a voice crying-out from heaven “Do not lay your hand upon the boy-child” (Gen 22:12). Abraham, in some sense, wasn’t planning to “lay his hand on the child” though, right? Wasn’t he going to sacrifice him? Why doesn’t the voice say “Don’t sacrifice the boy-child” instead? Certainly, that would have been more accurate.
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