{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/gen032.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/gen032.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/gen032.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nangel\n(See Scofield) - (Heb 1:4).\nMahanaim\nThat is, two hosts, or bands -- the visible band, Jacob and his servants; the invisible band, God's angels.\nCompare (Kg2 6:13-17).\nEdom\nThat is, Esau's country. (Gen 25:30).\n(See Scofield) - (Gen 36:1).\nand there wrestled\nJacob's crisis.\nCompare (Jos 5:13-15); (Job 42:5); (Job 42:6); (Isa 6:1-8); (Jer 1:4-9); (Eze 1:28); (Eze 2:1-7); (Dan 10:1-12); (Act 9:1-6); (Rev 1:13-18).\nshall be no more called Jacob\nBoth names are applied to the nation descended from Jacob. When used characteristically \"Jacob\" is the name for the natural posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; \"Israel\" for the spiritual part of the nation. See (Isa 9:8). The \"word\" was sent to all the people, \"Jacob,\" but it \"lighted upon Israel,\" that is, was comprehended by the spiritual part of the people. See \"Israel\" (Gen 12:2); (Gen 12:3).\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 11:26).","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Genesis: Genesis Chapter 32","type":"page"}