“And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.”
Abraham tells his servants to stay with the donkey while he and the boy go to worship, and then says: we will come back to you. The we is the most discussed word in this verse. Abraham says both of us will return. Hebrews 11:19 interprets this: Abraham believed God could raise Isaac from the dead. The faith that produces this statement has found a way to trust both the command and the promise simultaneously: God said sacrifice him; God also promised descendants through him; therefore death will not be the end. The application: mature faith does not resolve the tension between a hard command and an unrevoked promise — it trusts the God who holds both.
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