Genesis 32:22-24

Genesis 32:22-24. 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 them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

It does not say that he wrestled with the man, but "there wrestled a man with him." We call him "wrestling Jacob," and so he was; but we must not forget the wrestling man,-or, rather, the wrestling Christ,-the wrestling Angel of the covenant, who had come to wrestle out of him much of his own strength and wisdom, which, though it was commendable in a measure, and we have commended it, was an evil because it kept him from relying on the strength and wisdom of God.