Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 4:24

"but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead," — Romans 4:24 (ASV)

That raised up.—It is an association of ideas which leads the Apostle up to this point. The birth of Isaac resembles the resurrection of Christ in that it involved the exercise of Omnipotence, and in that Omnipotence Abraham believed and we are to believe. The Apostle is further led to allude to the Resurrection (though he has not laid so much stress upon it until now) because of the place which it held in his theory of the gospel.