I don't want to be too pedantic here ;) , but it was Abraham who was on the cusp of sacrificing his only son to God. But you were close; Jacob was his grand-son

I don't want to be too pedantic here ;) , but it was Abraham who was on the cusp of sacrificing his only son to God. But you were close; Jacob was his grand-son. And I'm not sure what Nietzsche said exactly about it but God is considered to be the creditor (not debtor), who pays for us the humans (indebted by our sins), to himself, with the flesh of his only son.