"Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” v.2
Read chapter 22.
Why does God say Abrahams's only son when we know Abraham had another son Ishmael? The Latin Vulgate is the word Unigenitum which can also be translated "unique." Isaac was the unique son born to Abraham and Sarah at a very old age and out of a promise by God to them to fulfill His covenant with Abraham. In John 1:18 this same phrase is used of Christ as the only begotten son of God. No God didn't have two sons like we see with Abraham, but Jesus was the unique and only representative of God in the flesh. God has also made each one of us unique in our own way, we can't take things specific to one person for ourselves, that wouldn't make it unique, but how can you be set apart uniquely for God?
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