The Ram in the Thicket
A father and a son going up a mountain with the fire and the wood, an altar, a voice that stays his hand, and a ram caught in a thicket. Scroll to watch it.
Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Genesis 22:7, as St John Chrysostom gives it
My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
Genesis 22:8, as St John Chrysostom gives it
And, in offering his son, he worshipped the Son of God. And, being restrained from sacrificing Isaac, he saw the Messiah in the ram, which was offered up instead as a sacrifice to God.
Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal Letters VI