The Bible

 

Genesis 22:9

Study

       

9 And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #2774

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

2774. Even Isaac. That this signifies the quality of the rational, namely, as being the good of truth and the truth of good, that is, the Divine marriage as to the Lord’s Human, is evident from the naming of Isaac (see the preceding chapter, 21, verses 6-7).

  
/ 10837  
  

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.