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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? Holy desires will be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel,.... That is, not Jacob only, but Israel also, as Ben Melech interprets it, or the one as well as the other; or the one rather and more frequently than the other: for certain it is, that he is often after this called Jacob, and his posterity also the seed of Jacob, though more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: That is, a prince of God. Gen_32:28. For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men and hast prevailed. Jacob was the prince with the disjointed limb, and that is exactly what a Christian is. He wins, he conquers, when his weakness becomes supreme, and he is conscious of it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: “A prince of God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. He received what he sought for his necessity, but not what he merely asked out of curiosity.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Israel: — A prince of God; —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. That has often been the request of God’s people, they have wanted to know God’s wondrous name. The Jews superstitiously believe that we have lost the sound of the name of Jehovah, — that the name is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jacob asked [him], and said, tell [me], I pray thee, thy name,.... Being asked his own name, and told it, and having another given him more significative and expressive, he is emboldened to ask the person that wrestled with him what was his name; Exodus 3:13; for Jacob knew that he was God, as appears by his earnest desire to be blessed by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. There are limits to all human intercourse with God. We must not go where vain curiosity would lead us, else will he have to say to us, as he did to Jacob, “Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. He did not give him what he asked for, but he gave him something better, and, in like manner, if the Lord does not open up a dark doctrine to you, but gives you a bright privilege, that will be better for you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Thus did Jacob the wrestler overcome his God. Now turn to the thirty-second chapter of the Book of Exodus, where we find a description of the sin of idolatry into which the Israelites fell while Moses was absent in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,.... In Genesis 32:31; Penuel, which signifies the face of God, or God hath looked upon me, or hath had respect to me: there was afterwards a city built here, called by the same name; see Judges 8:8; it is said (k) to be four miles from Mahanaim; the reason of it follows: for I have seen God face to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. How he must have trembled to think that he had the daring perhaps his fears made him call it the presumption actually to wrestle with God himself, for he was conscious now that it was no mere angel, but “the Angel of the covenant,” the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. He was lame, and probably remained lame for life.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him,.... It was break of day when the angel desired to be let go, and by that time the parley held between them ceased, and they parted, the sun was rising; and as Jacob went on it shone upon him, as a token of the good will and favour of God to him, and as an emblem of the sun of righteousness...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. The memorial of his weakness was to be with him as long as he lived. People would ask, “How came the halting gait of that princely man? “And the answer would be, “It was by his weakness that he won his princedom, he became Israel, a prince of God, when his thigh was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which shrank,.... Which was contracted by the touch of the angel, and by which it was weakened and benumbed; or the sinew of the part that was out of joint, the sinew or tendon that keeps the thigh bone in the socket, together with the flesh that covered it, or the muscle in which it is; or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.