Praying our family Rosary tonight, I remembered this bit of scripture while meditating on the 3rd Sorrowful Mystery, the Crowning with Thorns.
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Genesis 22
10 Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I." 12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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The substitute sacrifice
The ram with his horns bound in a thicket
The Lamb of God with his head wreathed in thorns.
Friday, January 4, 2008
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