And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Reader! it is no interesting question, though perhaps not easily answered; did Abraham really know, that God had already provided a Lamb for a burnt-offering; even the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world? There are two passages in the scriptures, which seem to imply as much. Jesus hath given the one; and the Holy Ghost by his servant the apostle hath given the other. John 8:56 and Hebrews 11:17. But Reader! whether Abraham in those distant ages, had such clear views of Jesus or not; what blessings, what privileges are ours, before whom the Lamb of God is not only provided, but hath fully taken away sin by his blood. John 1:29; Revelation 13:8.