He considered that God was able even to raise someone from the dead — and figuratively speaking, he did receive him back — Abraham's faith included belief in resurrection: he considered (logizomai) that God possessed the power (dynamis) to raise from death (ek nekron). Figuratively (en parabole) he received Isaac back both in the last-moment reprieve and in the typological sense that Isaac foreshadows resurrection.

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