Abraham's Temptation: only a matter of Faith, or also of Hope? In Genesis 22 we read how God tested (or &quot;put to the test&quot;, or &quot;tempted&quot; - the Hebrew verb נָסָה [nacah] bears all these meanings) Abraham, saying to him: &quot;Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering [עֹלָה - `olah] on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.&quot;
In the end, as we all know, God (or &quot;the Lord’s angel&quot;) stopped Abraham, and provided a ram &quot;caught in the bushes by its horns&quot; in replacement of Isaac, and in the end the Lord (or &quot;the Lord’s angel&quot;) praised Abraham &quot;because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son&quot; and renewed His promise to make hism &quot;the father of a multitude of nations&quot;.
In the Letter to the Hebrews, Abraham strands out in the hall of fame of People Commended for Their Faith (Hebrews 11:17-19).
In his book Fear and Trembling, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote:

But what did Abraham do? He arrived neither too soon nor too late. He
mounted the ass, he rode slowly along the way. All that time he
believed - he  believed   that God would not require Isaac of him,
whereas he was willing nevertheless to sacrifice him if it was
required. He  believed   by virtue of the absurd; for there could be
no question of human calculation, and it was indeed the absurd that
God who required it of him should the next instant recall the
requirement. He climbed the mountain, even at the instant when the
knife glittered he  believed  ... that God would not require Isaac. He
was indeed astonished at the outcome, but by a double-movement he had
reached his first position, and therefore he received Isaac more
gladly than the first time. (Fear and Trembling, by Johannes De
Silentio, alias Søren Kierkegaard, 1843, tr. Walter Lowrie, 1941 (@
religion-online.org), Chapter 2: Preliminary Expectoration -
emphasis added)

Is faith really enough to explain Abraham's behaviour, or is it necessary to consider at least another &quot;ingredient&quot;: hope?
P.S.   I reserve to try and answer my own question later on
Faith-Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Hope-a feeling of expectation and desire or a certain thing to happen. A feeling of trust.
God deals with Abraham starting at Genesis 12 when He ask Abraham to go forth from your country and from your relatives to the land which I will show you. (Genesis 12:1). At vs4 Abraham does what God told him.
At Genesis 13:1, &quot;So Abram went up from Egypt to Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.&quot; At Genesis 15:1, After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision saying, Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great. At Genesis 15:18 the Lord made aa covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given you this land etc.
The Lord God deals further with Abram and his wife Sarah at Genesis 16, Genesis 17, Genesis 18-22 and beyond. Of course Genesis 22 is the sacrifice of Abraham's only son Isaac.
What I'm saying is the fact that both &quot;faith and hope&quot; directed Abraham and his actions. At Hebrews 11 (which is known as the &quot;faith&quot; book) Abraham is the center piece starting at vs8. &quot;By faith Abraham when he was called obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WAS GOING.&quot;
At vs17, &quot;By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises (plural) was offering up his only begotten son; vs18, it was he to whom it was said, In Isaac your descendants shall be called.&quot;
Hebrews 11:19, &quot;He/Abraham considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him back as a type.&quot; Going back to Romans 4 in which the Apostle Paul talks about Abraham in detail.
Romans 4:18, &quot;In hope against hope he believed, in order that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, &quot;So shall your descendants be.&quot;
Romans 4:19, &quot;And without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body; now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.&quot; Vs21, &quot;and being fully assured that what He/God had promised, He was able also to perform.&quot;
In short both faith and hope go hand in hand where God held Abraham's hand all through His dealings with him by giving him confidence.