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son Isaac in obedience to God’s command, his dilemma was
this: how could he reconcile the command of God to slay
his son with God’s previous promise that through this son
should come a great posterity? He did not solve the prob-
lem by deciding to disobey God’s command to offer up
Isaac. Rather by faith he concluded that God Himself
would raise Isaac from the dead after he had been offered.
Spiritually there is a deeper lesson. God, like Abraham,
did not spare His own Son (Rom. 8:32), And, as Abra-
ham received back Isaac as though he had been raised from
the dead, so Christ has been raised by the Father from the
dead” (ibid.)
4. V. 14. Jehovah-jirelg, ie., Jehovah will see, or pro-
vide. “The plain meaning is: ‘the Lord will see’ and choose
this place for the dwelling of the Divine Presence, i.e., the
Temple’’ (Rashi, SC, 111). (Is there contradiction be-
tween the Name used here and the statement in Exo. 6:3,
where God is represented as telling Moses that He was
known to the patriarchs as El Shaddai, but by His Name
Yaliwe He was not known to them?) “Certainly this is ndt
to be taken to mean that the patriarchs were altogether
ignorant of the name Jehovah. It was in His attribute
as El Shaddai that God had revealed His nature to the
patriarchs; but now [at the beginning of the Mosaic
ministry] He was about to reveal Himself to Israel as
Jehovah, as the absolute Being working with unbounded
freedom in the performance of His promises. For not only
had He established His covenants with the fathers, but
He had also heard the groaning of the children of Israel.
. . . On the ground of the erection of His covenant on the
one hand, and, what was irreconcilable with that covenant,
the bondage of Israel on the other, Jehovah was now about
to redeem Israel from its sufferings and make it His own
nation” (KD, BCOTP, 468). In a word, under the
mediatorship of Moses He would reveal Ilimself fully as
the Covenant-God, Yahwe.
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