 | T. Richard Snyder - 2001 - 176 pages
...(Gen. 32:28). Jacob, in the custom of the times, named the place where this event occurred Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face and yet my life is preserved" (Gen. 32:30). How dare Jacob act in such a manner? What right did he have to challenge God? Jacob was... | |
 | David Penchansky, Paul L. Redditt - 2000 - 306 pages
...him. Now it is God who tests Jacob, and this test leads to a new experience of God. Jacob's words "I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" are similar to Job's words "I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.... | |
 | James G. Kirk - 2001 - 404 pages
...prevailed. When he asked you gave him a blessing, and called his name Israel. He called the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face and yet my life is preserved." The covenant that you made with him you have never broken. You sent Jesus Christ as a sign of your love.... | |
 | Hans-Georg Ziebertz - 2001 - 464 pages
...us and bless us, and make his face to shine upon us" (Ps.67: 1). "So Jacob called the place Penici saying 'for I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved'" (Gen. 32:30). When Jacob had become reconciled to his brother Esau, he said "for truly to see your... | |
 | Wayne Sibley Towner - 2001 - 318 pages
...said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. 30So Jacob called 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 hip. 32 Therefore to this day the... | |
 | Peter Bluer - 2001 - 476 pages
...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. " To recap we can read in Gen 35:1 ,9-13 God said to Jacob, " Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there;... | |
 | 2001 - 308 pages
...Jacob. Jacob appears to accept this, as he also gets into naming by calling the place Peniel, stating: For I have seen God, face to face, and yet my life is delivered. (Gen. 32:31; ET 32:30) The full force of these words is not immediately apparent. It seems... | |
 | Bruce N. Fisk - 2001 - 382 pages
...Isaac. And to Jacob Isaac 's son, the third one. . . Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For / have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved".' Pseudo-Philo's objective is to portray Jacob, like Abraham and Isaac before him, as chosen and uniquely... | |
 | William Barclay - 2001 - 130 pages
...me and live' (Exodus 33.20). After the incident at Peniel it was Jacob's astonished exclamation: 'I have seen God face to face and yet my life is preserved' (Genesis 32.30). When Moses came down from the mount the people exclaimed in astonishment: 'We have... | |
 | Alexander Nava - 2001 - 226 pages
...with God in order to receive God's blessing and that he will therefore be able to say in the end: 'I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved'" (OJ, 66). In the final analysis, Gutierrez claims, the major contrast between the God-talk of Job's... | |
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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. 
