Yes, the recipient of the promises offered his only son, of...

Yes, the recipient of the promises offered his only son, of whom it had been said, ‘Through Isaac you are to have your descendants'." (The Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews 11:17-18) " Was not our father Ibrahim made righteous by his works when he offered up his son Isaac on the alter?" (The General Epistle of James 2:21) " When every one had departed from the temple, the priests closed the temple and went away.

Then Ibrahim took the axe and cut off the feet of all the idols, except the great god Baal. At its feet he placed the axe, amid the ruins which the statues made, for they, through being old and composed of pieces, fell in pieces. Thereupon, Ibrahim, going forth from the temple, was seen by certain men, who suspected him of having gone to thieve something from the temple.

So they laid hold on him, and having arrived at the temple, when they saw their gods so broken in pieces, they cried out with lamentation: ‘Come quickly, O’ men, and let…