 | Thomas Wingate Mann - 1988 - 196 pages
...in the night, and when that match is over Jacob names the place Penuel, "The face of God," and says, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." The interlacing of these passages prevents us from reading each of Jacob's encounters separately. It is... | |
 | Moshe Weinfeld - 1992 - 492 pages
...seeing the Deity : 'For man shall not see me and live' (Exod. 33: 20) and similarly in Gen. 32: 31: 'For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved' (cf. Judg. 13: 22, Isa. 6: 5). The book of Deuteronomy, on the other hand, cannot conceive of the possibility... | |
 | 1993 - 296 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." 3lThe sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32Therefore to this day the... | |
 | J. Glen Taylor - 1993 - 322 pages
...it that you ask my name?' And there he blessed him. 31 So Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, 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. 33 Therefore to this day... | |
 | Louise Cummings, Margaret Kyle - 1994 - 140 pages
...said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed Jacob. So Jacob called 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 hip. (Genesis 32:24-31 NRSV) ft\\ 11 through the night Jacob... | |
 | Thomas G. Long, Cornelius Plantinga - 1994 - 324 pages
...blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to iace, and yet my life is preserved." The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh. Genesis 32:22-31 When a minister reads out of the Bible,... | |
 | Mari West Zimmerman - 1995 - 212 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." The word of God, who sustains us through the darkness. Thanks be to God. SILENCE RESPONSE Psalm 40 : 9... | |
 | Richard Cleaver - 1995 - 180 pages
...sentence, Gen. 32:30, which concludes the encounter: "So Jacob called the place Peniel ["the face of God"], saying, 'For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.' " And then the sun rose. How did Jacob know that his wrestling partner was divine? Because he would... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed." Jacob calls the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" (Genesis 32:24—30). It is not until this point in Milton, some twenty-one years after Poetical Sketches,... | |
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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. 
