Genesis 22:8
8“God will provide ▼▼tn Heb “will see for himself.” The construction means “to look out for; to see to it; to provide.”
▼▼sn God will provide is the central theme of the passage and the turning point in the story. Note Paul’s allusion to the story in
Rom 8:32 (“how shall he not freely give us all things?”) as well as H. J. Schoeps, “The Sacrifice of Isaac in Paul’s Theology,”
JBL 65 (1946): 385-92.
for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.