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Are You Taking Your Son, Your Only One Whom You Love?
There is absolutely no evidence in genesis that abraham loves isaac. In fact, there is pretty clear that abraham is attached to ishmael and sarah is attached toisaac. So therefore, sir, i take whom you love not to be a statement of fact, but to be a rhetorical phrase. And his intercession for isaac would actually gin to provide a bond between him and his son that maybe was absent before. But he doesn't do that. Abraham shows no distress. He just goes to do it. Now i think he must have some internal distress, and i suggest there may be some something about that, but he does not protest where he