 | Ronald E. Vallet - 2001 - 276 pages
...God and with humans, and have prevailed" (Gen. 32:28l. Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For 1 have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." After being given a blessing and a new name, Jacob, now named Israel, released God. (It is interesting... | |
 | B. Donald Keyser, Harold Wayne Ballard - 2002 - 276 pages
...encountered at Bethel many years before. Upon the recognition, we are told that he "called the place Peniel, saying, ' For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved'" (Gen 32:30). If the words of Jacob, "face to face," are to be taken literally in any sense, we can... | |
 | Ben Campbell Johnson - 2002 - 194 pages
...earnest at this point. In a metaphorical way he could testify with Jacob about naming the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" (Gen. 32:3o). The struggle of this week was but an introduction to other struggles that Jay would face... | |
 | Jean Porche, Deborah Vaughan - 2002 - 158 pages
...realized that he had wrestled with an angel, and had settled up some cosmic obligation with God. "I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" (Genesis 32:30). After that, reconciliation with Esau must have been almost a nonevent. God or an.ge.ts?... | |
 | Edward Reaugh Smith - 2003 - 364 pages
...apparently the last to make such claim. After wrestling with the angel at the Jabbok, he exclaimed, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" (Gen 32,30). But God did not there tell him his (God's) name, merely inquiring why he asked for it... | |
 | W. Th. Van Peursen - 2004 - 496 pages
...the preceding verb may also be contrastive, as in Gen. 32:31 'OE33 '»m D'3S 'PK D'3S UTT^R Tr»n -D 'for I have seen God face to face and yet my life is spared'. 31 Thus we find 47:18(B) "TtoBr 1 *?jj *rpn TOOT œn nmp: rjco min rnauDi ant "pros ~aam 'you... | |
 | Robert Seitz Frey - 2004 - 292 pages
...rises and the stranger flees, Jacob walks away limping, resolving to call the place Peniel meaning "I have seen God face to face and yet my life is preserved" (Genesis 32:31). The biblical version, as Jewish interpretation has faithfully recorded, emphasizes... | |
 | James Hastings - 2004 - 452 pages
...prevail.il The incident serves to explain further the name Penuel, ' Face of God ' ; 'for,' said Jacob, 'I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved. 'If The narrator deduces also from this incident the custom of not eating in animals the muscle corresponding... | |
 | Stephen J. Binz - 2005 - 156 pages
...said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. '"So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." These two angelic encounters of Jacob were separated by about two decades. The dream of the ladder... | |
 | Frederick J. Streets - 2005 - 170 pages
...said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Penici, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." It is an extraordinary honor to be here in the Battell Chapel... and a bit of a surprise. First, it'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. 
