Word of the Day - 7/9/2008

Immolate

To immolate is to sacrifice or to kill as a sacrificial victim, as by fire; offer in sacrifice.

Abraham was tested when God asked him to immolate his son.

He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." (Genesis 22:2, NASB)

Note: This oil painting, "The Angel Stopping Abraham from Sacrificing Isaac to God", was rendered by Rembrandt (1606-1669) in 1635.