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ISAAC.—Named (1) in our Lord’s genealogy, Mat_1:2, Luk_3:34; (2) in such collocations as ‘sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob’ (Mat_8:11), ‘see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob’ (Luk_13:28), ‘the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob’ (Mat_22:32, Mar_12:26, Luk_20:37). See Abraham, and Fathers. The sacrifice of Isaac came at an early date to be used by Christian writers as a type of the sacrifice on the cross (cf. e.g. Ep. of Barn. ch. 7). It is just possible that some such thought underlies Rom_8:32 ‘He that spared not his own Son.’