{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5825","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":22,"chapter_to":22,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 3) And he went to the place which God had told him about, on the third day. It should be noted that from Gerar to Mount Moriah, that is, the site of the temple, is a three-day journey, and consequently it is said that he arrived there on the third day. Therefore, some people mistakenly think that Abraham lived at the oak tree in Mamre during that time, when in fact the journey from there to Mount Moriah is barely a full day's journey.<br/><i>— Hebrew Questions on Genesis</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: \"Abraham therefore rose in the morning, and saddled his she-ass, and cut wood for the burnt offering. And he took his son Isaac and two servants, and came to the place that God had told him, on the third day.\" Abraham rose in the morning (in that he added \"in the morning,\" he wished perhaps to show that the beginning of light was shining in his heart), saddled his she-ass, prepared the wood, took his son. He does not deliberate, he does not reconsider, he does not share his counsel with any of men, but at once he sets out on the journey. \"And he came,\" it says, \"to the place that the Lord had told him, on the third day.\" I pass over now what sacred meaning \"the third day\" contains; I look at the wisdom and counsel of the One who was tempting. Was there thus no mountain nearby, since the whole thing was being done among the mountains, but the journey is drawn out over three days, and through the whole three days the paternal heart is tortured by cares that keep coming back, so that through all this space so prolonged the father might gaze upon his son, take food with him, and for so many nights the boy might hang in the embraces of his father, cling to his breast, lie in his lap? See to how great a degree the temptation is heaped up.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 8.4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ac2b4d8a0231fbc8ac0dd83845f7c1cb767945393b69cf8545626d867ab89eb8","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5825,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"35bd15544f843ce674693fe72d4c92100d694337819d538d70a1e1feeb45a75a","translator":null,"work":null}