Genesis 22:6

Abraham took the wood for. burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac.

Leaving the young men behind, he went forward with his son. The wood prepared at home for the burnt offering, laid upon Isaac, the promised seed, the son slain "in. figure," is. fitting type of the Son of God carrying his own cross. It will be noted that Isaac could not have been. small boy, or he could not have carried the wood. The only indication of the time of his life is in this statement. Josephus says that he was 25 years old; some of the Rabbins make him older. Others insist that he was the age of the antetype, the Lord Jesus Christ. We do not think that the term "lad," used in verse 5, will admit of his being an adult. He was probably somewhere from sixteen to twenty.