More sacred than thy son himself to thee.”
The altar still burned. Abraham was blessed
By the King of mankind, the kinsman of Lot,
With the grace of God, since he gave his son,
2925 Isaac, alive. Then the aged man looked
Around over his shoulder, and a ram he saw
Not far away fastened alone
In a bramble bush— [Haran’s brother] saw it.
Then Abraham seized it and set it on the altar
2930 In eager haste for his own son.