Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb?

Isaac broke the dreadful silence with this touching inquiry, which Bishop Hall has observed "must have gone to Abraham's heart as deeply as the knife could possibly have gone to Isaac's." If any word or deed could have broken down the father, it would have been this touching and pleading question. Isaac probably had no misgivings to this point, but it seemed so strange that his father had provided no offering. Could he have forgotten? What did it all mean?

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