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Ille quondam patriarcharum maximus pater (Gen. XXII), qui immolandum filium jussus offerre, viriliter præsumpsit, nec majestati hominem posse res!stere, nec pietati praeceptum parricidii convenire. Et tamen, cum mysterii ignoraret eventum, altari filium quasi jugulaturus imposuit: unum certissime tenens, si hujus hostiae Deo irrevocabilem libuisset tenere sententiam, non homicidium, sed sacrificium fore quod obedientia commisisset.
那位古時眾先祖中至大的父（創二十二），他被命令將自己的兒子獻為祭物，便勇毅地承擔起來——他確信人不能抵抗神的威嚴，也確信殺子的命令不合乎神的慈愛。然而，雖然他不知道這奧祕的結局，他仍把兒子放在祭壇上，彷彿要宰殺他一般：他最確實地持守一件事，就是若神喜悅對這祭物保守一個不可撤回的判定，那麼順從所行的便不是兇殺，而是獻祭。
That greatest father of the patriarchs of old (Gen. xxii), who, being commanded to offer his son to be sacrificed, manfully took it upon himself—holding that a man could not resist the divine majesty, and that a command of parricide did not befit the divine goodness. And yet, though he was ignorant of the outcome of the mystery, he laid his son upon the altar as though to slay him: holding one thing most surely, that if it had pleased God to keep an irrevocable sentence upon this victim, what obedience had committed would be no murder, but a sacrifice.