...wretched catastrophe ! Recollect the natural and artless enquiry of the devoted innocent: "My father, — behold the fire and the wood ; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?"" At length, the appointed spot is within sight: even the miserable respite of the journey is at an end...

...meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 ^f And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I ; who art thou, my son ? 19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy^firstborn ; I have done according...

...and this was the priestly garment which was in the care of Rebekah in the house. "And he came unto his father and said, my father, and he said here am I, who art thou, my son ? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first-born. I have done as thou...

...Patriarch was on his way to the appointed place, the mountain of Moriah, Isaac spake to his father and said, " behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burntoffering^" To this affecting interrogation, Abraham replied, " My son, God will provide himself a lamb;" which...

...victim substituted in his room ; no revocation of the decree ; and instead of inquiring like Isaac, ' Behold the fire and the wood ; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?' ver. 7, he says, ' Lo, I come ; .... to do thy will, O my God,' Ps. xL 7, 8. Jesus expires : the dead...

...artlessness of innocence, pathetically enquires — ' My father ! I see, indeed, the knife of sacrifice, and behold the fire and the wood ! but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?' A father's breast alone can be the depositary of a father's feelings, at such...

...proposed, must have triumphed over his resolution, and decreed the victory to flesh and blood. " And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and .said, My father...the fire and the wood : but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering ? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so...

...son ; and he took the fire in his hand and a knife : and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac p / iire and the wood : but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering ? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will...

...son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father:...the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering : so...

...forms an essential part of " The Christianity of the New Testament." In a word, we say with Isaac, " Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering ?" Gen. xxii. 7. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. In tJte Press. TUE Welsh Nonconformist's Memorial; or Cambro-British...