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my grandson wondrs as I do what was the struggle with the angel all about & what does it reffer to biblically? thanks new member
 
Hi Ted,

As a matter of fact, the adversary is not an angel but God Himself, because this story is an explanation of the name Israel (interpreted as “Strong against God”) Before entering the Promised Land, Jacob “struggles” with God to obtain His blessing on his family and their descendants. Some Fathers (St.Jerome, Origen) have interpreted this passage as teaching us the power of prayer.

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my grandson wondrs as I do what was the struggle with the angel all about & what does it reffer to biblically? thanks new member
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I think you might have the wrong chapter referenced. Check chapter and verses and get back to us…I see no struggle with an angel in Gen. 33.
 
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istand corrected it should be 32
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This is from the Haydock Commentary:

Ver. 24. A man, &c. This was an angel in human shape, as we learn from Osee xii. 4. He is called God, ver. 28 and 30, because he represented the person of the Son of God. This wrestling, in which Jacob, assisted by God, was a match for an angel, was so ordered, (Ver. 28.) that he might learn by this experiment of the divine assistance, that neither Esau, nor any other man, should have power to hurt him. It was also spiritual, as appeareth by his earnest prayer, urging, and at last obtaining the angel’s blessing. (Challoner) — The father will not refuse a good gift to those who ask him with fervour and humility. Jacob had before set us an excellent pattern how to pray, placing his confidence in God, and distrusting himself, ver. 9, &c. (Haydock) — It is not certain, whether Jacob remained alone on the northern or on the southern banks of Jaboc. (Calmet)

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