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Genesis 22:12

And he said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do you anything unto him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

In place of the body, God showed the ram in the bush, that he might restore the son to his father and yet that a victim should not be lacking to the priest. Consequently neither was Abraham stained with the blood of his own son, nor was God deprived of a victim. When the prophet saw the ram, he did not assume a boastful attitude; he did not persist obstinately in his resolve but took the ram in place of the boy. His conduct shows all the more how piously he offered the son whom he received back so gladly. On His Brother, Satyrus

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