Genesis 22:3

And Abraham rose up early in the morning.

The promptness and steadiness of Abraham's obedience are strongly marked in all the details of this verse. There are-several things to be noted: 1. While it was an awful shock to be called upon to sacrifice his son, it did not occur to him that such. sacrifices would be offensive to God. He was surrounded by races who offered human sacrifices. The Canaanites offered their own children to the god Moloch; the Phoenicians, Carthagenians and Moabites offered human sacrifices. In. later age the king of Moab, when besieged by the Israelites, offered his own son as. sacrifice on the walls. Hence, with such surroundings from infancy, it did not occur to him as an impossible thing that God would demand his son. 2. His theology had for its very essence the principle that he should trust and obey God. What God commanded must be done. That was right, however imperfect his own understanding might be. 3. Note also that he suffers alone. He does not speak to Sarah of his stern trial. He probably felt that he could not bear her tears and wails, in addition to the burden already laid upon him.