 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God : 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed ; he wept, and made supplication unto him : he... | |
 | 1815 - 512 pages
...Npt less so, 5th, Is the testimony of thg prophet Hoséá. " By his strength he had power with ood ; yea, he had, power over the angel, and prevailed, he wept and made supplication unto liim." Some have considered this remarkable transactiori merely a? a dream, or vision,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 508 pages
...we read of Jacob's wrestling with God, and his great importunity, when it is said, in Hos. xii. 4. ' He had power over the angel, and prevailed ; he wept and * made supplication unto him ;' as referring to what is mentioned in Gen. xxxii. 26, 28. ' The angel,' that... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...we read of Jacob's wrestling with God, and his great importunity, when it is said, in Hos. xii. 4. ' He had power over the angel, and prevailed ; he wept and ' made supplication unto him ;' as referring to what is mentioned in Gen. xxxii. 26, 28. 'The angel,' that... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...and prevailed, for a great blessing. Hosea alludes to both these events, ch. xii. 3. when he says, "He took his brother by the heel, in the womb, and...power over the angel and prevailed : He wept and made supplication unto him:" viz. when in distress, through fear of his brother Esau. " He found him in... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1818 - 490 pages
...evil : and Hosea, in a similar manner, teaches, when speaking of the circumstance now before us ; that by his strength he had power with God, yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed, even Jehovah the God of hosts.1 The man therefore, with whom Jacob wrestled, was assuredly the Angel-God... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1818 - 632 pages
...face to face, and my life is prcst rved. This Person is called by Hosca, God, Ihe Angel, and JEHOVAH. He had power with God; yea, he had power over the Angel, and prevailed. He had wept, and made supplication unto him. He found him in Bethel ; ami there he spake with us, even... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...with men, and hast prevailed. And he blessed him there"1. " To this event the prophet Hosea refers." By his strength he had power with God ; yea, he had...power over the angel, and prevailed ; he wept and made supplication unto him ; he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. Even the Lord God of hosts,... | |
 | Free thought - 1819 - 654 pages
...rogue. The word signifies a cheat. Esau told his father he was rightly named. Even before he was born, " he took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God," Hosea xii. 2 ; at the time of their birth he did the same, Gen. xxv. 26. These gambols are unknown... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1820 - 264 pages
...that it overcomes an omnipotent God. Now this is fully and sweetly cleared up in Uos. xii. 3, 4. " He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by...power over the angel, and prevailed : he wept and made supplication unto him ; he found him in Bethel, and there he spake to us." When Jacob was all alone,... | |
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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the Angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him : he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; even the Lord God of... 
