“Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”
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.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:19
Great indeed was the faith of Abraham. For while in the case of Abel, and of Noah, and of Enoch, there was an opposition of reasonings only, and it was necessary to go beyond human reasonings; in this case it was necessary not only to go beyond human reasonings, but to manifest also something more. For what was of God seemed to be opposed to what was of God; and faith opposed faith, and command promise. I mean this: He had said, “Get you out of your country, and from your…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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