And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father,.... As they were walking together:and said, my father; a cutting word to Abraham, who knew what he was going to do with him, so contrary to the relation and affection of a parent:and he said, here [am] I, my son; what hast thou to say to me?
I am ready to answer thee; he owns the relation he stood in unto him, a sense of which he had not put off, and curbs his affections, which must be inwardly moving towards him, and showed great strength of faith to grapple with such a trying exercise:and he said, behold the fire and the wood; the fire which his father had his hand, and the wood which was upon his own, shoulders:but where [is] the lamb for a burnt offering?