 | 1878 - 946 pages
...him, and he tremblingly whispered forth what had now become one of his profoundest convictions — " I man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, ! " — and he called the name of the place Peniel ; and there in his heart — the surest proof of... | |
 | John Roberts Dummelow - 1920 - 1474 pages
...' The incident serves to explain further the name Penufl, " Face of God " ; " for," said Jacob, " I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved " (in allusion to the belief that no one couM " see God and live," Exl921 33 *> JgG22 13«). The narrator... | |
 | Gene M. Tucker - 1976 - 100 pages
...it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. 30So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." 31The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh. 32Therefore to this day... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - 1975 - 264 pages
...that you ask my name ? ' And there he blessed him. 31 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, 'For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.' 32 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh. Neof. Gen. 32:25-32 and... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 224 pages
...Moses, "shall not see me and live" (Exodus 33: 20). It was Jacob's astonished exclamation at Peniel: "I have seen God face to face and yet my life is preserved" (Genesis 32: 30). When Manoah realised who his visitor had been, he said in terror to his wife: "We... | |
 | John White - 1977 - 172 pages
...is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet...my life is preserved. " The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew... | |
 | Walter Brueggemann - 1982 - 412 pages
...arranged the statements on the motif of face: (a) "Afterwards I shall see his face ..." (32:20). (b) "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" (32:30). (c) "For truly to 272 see your face is like seeing Deface of God" (33:10). It is hard to identify... | |
 | John C. Gibson - 1982 - 348 pages
...existing name of the place that suggested to Jacob the words he used to describe his experience — "I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" — rather than these words that gave him the idea for naming it. Secondly, the passage adds the information... | |
 | George W. Coats - 1983 - 340 pages
...two etiologies, both of which appear somewhat extrinsic to the unit. V. 31 explains the name Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." But the story makes no reference to the face-to-face motif, the one possible exception being the allusion... | |
 | Walbert Bühlmann - 1987 - 262 pages
...is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." I had spent two days giving lectures at the general chapter of a missionary society in Rome, opening... | |
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So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved. 
