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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 12:4 - 12:4
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the angel - the uncreated Angel of the Covenant, as God the Son appears in the Old Testament (Mal 3:1).
made supplication - Gen 32:26 : “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”
he found him - The angel found Jacob, when he was fleeing from Esau into Syria: the Lord appearing to him “in Beth-el” (Gen 28:11-19; Gen 35:1). What a sad contrast, that in this same Beth-el now Israel worships the golden calves!
there he spake with us - “with us,” as being in the loins of our progenitor Jacob (compare Psa 66:6, “They ... we;” Heb 7:9, Heb 7:10). What God there spoke to Jacob appertains to us. God’s promises to him belong to all his posterity who follow in the steps of his prayerful faith.