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Abraham's supreme test

Pronunciation pronunciation key
aybrăhamz

Definition 
An ultimate challenge or sacrifice. The reference is to God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, as a burned offering on Mount Moriah. Abraham readily agreed to comply and was about to kill Isaac with his knife when God, satisfied that Abraham's faith was genuine, intervened by providing a ram caught in a thicket to take Isaac's place (Genesis 22:1–19; see also Romans 4; Hebrews 11:8–19; James 2:20–26). The president faces his own version of Abraham's supreme test, being forced to choose between instinctive loyalty to his vice president or to his own political principles.

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