Notes on Book of Genesis (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
22:1 God tempted, etc: God tempteth no man to evil, James 1.13; but by trial and experiment maketh known to the world, and to ourselves, what we are, as here by this trial the singular faith and obedience of Abraham was made manifest.
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