God." "The essence of sacrifice is the moral disposition." Abraham's fear of God is his obedience to the will of God; the obliteration of his own will. The grammatical construction of verse 12 is one of two unique instances in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Yet Abraham completes his act of worship by offering the ram in the place of his son. This done without express command--"Abraham recognizing by its mysterious presence that [the ram] was 'provid