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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. And he rose up that night, and took his two womenservants, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. Depend upon it, our sins will come home to us sooner or later. Jacob must have bitterly regretted, that night, that he had ever wronged Esau. There...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. 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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 was the man Christ Jesus putting on the form of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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; He had made a quiet oratory for himself by sending everyone else of the company over to the other side of the brook;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. I suppose our Lord Jesus Christ did here, as on many other occasions preparatory to his full incarnation, assume a human form, and came thus to wrestle with the patriarch.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw — When the wrestling Man, the Angel of the covenant, saw —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; Where the column of the leg supports the body, and if that be disjointed, a man has lost all his strength. It was brave of Jacob thus to wrestle, but there was too much of self about it all. It was his own sufficiency that was wrestling with the God-man, Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. For even with a dislocated hip Jacob would not give up wrestling; he meant to hold this wondrous Man until he got a blessing from him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. So that he fell, or began to fall; but still he gripped the Angel, and would not let him go.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. So that he was made painfully to realize his own weakness while he was putting forth all his strength.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, so he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. When we come nearest to God, we must have a deep sense of our own personal weakness; it must never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. It is evident that, as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other “Man” with a kind of death-grip, and would not let him go. Now, in his weakness, he will prevail. While he was so strong, he won not the blessing; but when he became...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. That was grandly spoken.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Bravely said, O Jacob! And ye sons of Jacob, learn to say the same. You may have what you will if you can speak thus to the covenant angel, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. That is, a supplanter, as poor Esau well knew.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. “The supplanter.”