And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Ver. 8. God will provide himself a lamb.] A pious and precious proverb; a much to be mused on, and made use of, when we are in an exigent, and see not whither to turn us. Then say, Deus viderit. God will with the temptation also give an issue. 1Co 10:13 Necesse est adesse divinum, ubi humanum cessat auxilium, saith Philo. Sciat etiam Celsitudo vestra, saith Luther in a letter to the Prince Elector of Saxony; b I would your Highness should well know that businesses are far otherwise carried and concluded in heaven than at the Diet at Noringberg, &c. And to Philip Melancthon he writes thus: Si nos ruemus, ruet Christus una, ille regnator mundi: et esto ruat, &c. Sed scribo haec frustra, quia tu secundum philosophiam vestram, has res ratione rogere, hoc est, ut ait ille, cum ratione insanire pergis, et occidis teipsum; nec vides prorsus extra manum tuam et consilium positam esse causam, etiam extra curam tuam velle agi. c
a Qui finxit alas papilioni, is curabit omnia .
b Scultet. Ann.
c Idem.