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Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
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The Divine Wrestler
Commentators are unified that the 'man' who wrestled with Jacob was a divine being. While appearing in human form, he is called an angel by the prophet Hosea and God by Jacob himself. Many scholars, such as Spurgeon and Gill, identify this figure as a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Genesis 32:3: מחנים machănāyı̂m — Machanaim, “two camps.”
Genesis 32:22: יבק yaboq
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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Baptist
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took…
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16th Century
Protestant
There wrestled a man with him, although this vision was particularly useful to Jacob himself, teaching him in advance that many conflicts …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Jacob was left alone On the other side of Jabbok, his family and cattle having passed over it; and this solitude he chose, in o…
Long before daybreak, Jacob, being alone, more fully spread his fears before God in prayer. While doing so, One in the form of a man wrestled with …
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