And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt offering?
Ver. 7. Where is the lamb for a burnt offering.] Isaac was not to be told now what belonged to a sacrifice. He had been long since taught by his father what was to be done in the service of God. "When I was young, my father taught me," saith Solomon, Pro 4:4 so did his mother also, Pro 31:1-31 in her Lemuel's lesson. Plantus tenellas frequentius adaquare proderit, saith Primasius. a
a Primas, in Philip. Greg. Moral., lib. xxvii cap. 14.