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Genesis, Volume 2: A New Beginning (Genesis 12–36): An Expositional Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this commentary on Genesis 12–36, Boice traces the “new beginning” of God’s plan of redemption, which arose out of God’s relationship with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. By delving into the patriarchs’ lives, Boice demonstrates how much they are like us and how easily we relate to them, both in triumphs and failures. The second of three volumes on the Book of Genesis, A New Beginning shows how...

Here was proof of how much a mere man would do for love of God. But although we must stop at this point and continue in our next chapter, I am sure you have seen how this incident is also a pageant of how much more God would do as an expression of his love for fallen men and women. Abraham was only asked to sacrifice his son; he did not actually have to do it. Even if he had, there was only a physical death involved. But when the time came for God, the heavenly Father, to sacrifice his Son, it was
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