Genesi 22:11

E l'angelo del Signore lo chiamò dal cielo e disse: Abramo, Abramo: e disse: Eccomi.

ver. 11. E disse: Abramo, Abramo! ] Due volte, per la fretta: ma per niente fino all'istante. Quando il coltello fu alzato, il Signore venne. Dio si compiace di portare il suo popolo sul monte, sì, proprio sul ciglio del colle, finché i loro piedi non scivolino, e poi li libera. Si riserva la sua santa mano per un passaggio morto. Assicurati solo di guardare alla tua vocazione; perché diversamente era con Iefte, Gdc 11:1, che sant'Agostino chiama facinorosum et improbum , uomo osceno e cattivo, nelle sue domande sull'Antico Testamento.

What then would he have said to Thomas the Anabaptist, who beheaded his brother Leonard, in the sight of his parents, at Sangal in France, Anno 1526, pretending the example of Abraham? a As did likewise those odious idolaters of old, that offered their children in sacrifice to Moloch in the valley of Hinnom; which was so called, because the poor child put into the arms of the red-hot image, was נהס, nohem, that is, roaring; or because the priests comforting the parents said, Jehenneh lach.

"It shall be profitable or pleasant to thee," as Kimchi hath it. b So, because Abraham planted a grove to serve God in, Gen 21:33 the devil, God's ape, set the blind heathens a work to plant a thicket near the altar of their god Priapus, whereinto his worshippers stepped when the sacrifice was ended, and there, like brute beasts promiscuously satisfied their lusts, thereby, as they conceived, best pleasing their god; which was the true cause, as it seems, that the true God commanded that no groves should be planted near the place of his worship; and if any were, they should be cut down.

a Stumpt., lib. v.

b Condimentum erit tibi. - Falkut in Jerem.