 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.  The Works of of the Late Reverend Robert Traill - Page 198by Robert Traill - 1810Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 880 pages
...further saith, " I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." And God blest him there ; " And he called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, . and my life is preserved." To seek God's help 1 only, and not to seek his face, the beauty and loveliness of his face, is to me,... | |
 | Robert Balmer - 1845 - 562 pages
...another occasion, not less memorable, you will have reason to say, " This place shall be called Pcniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved :" — with David, " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand:" — and with Peter, " It is good... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1845 - 616 pages
...see God. Thus Jacob saw the Lord, who says, 888 Moses and others saw God only by a semblance. JOB 28, For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserred. ~ — - Moses likewise saw God, of whom it is written, And the so. ' Lord spake unto Moses... | |
 | 1846 - 404 pages
...Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Ver. 28, 30.) He was the object of his confidence. When Jacob was commanded by God to leave his place... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1846 - 690 pages
...had ignorantly borne themselves. " Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I knew it not." " And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face." " Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God." It is not in this wise... | |
 | Ebenezer Vinall - 1847 - 40 pages
...with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; that is, the face of God, for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Something like Abraham, when God communed with him, and he said : " Behold now, I have taken upon me... | |
 | Richard A. F. Barrett - 1847 - 428 pages
...Ver. 30. Au. Ver. — 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [that is, the face of God] : for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Peniel.— Two MSS., Sam., Symm., Syr., Vulg., Chald. in three codices, read Penuel. Compare verse... | |
 | Robert Mimpriss - 1849 - 606 pages
...he said, Wherefore ' is it thai thou 'dost ask after my name ? And he blei him there. 31), And Jacob 849 31, And as he passed over Peuuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32. Therefore... | |
 | 1849 - 360 pages
...And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name 1 And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children... | |
 | 1849 - 518 pages
...lets us into the secret of his thoughts through that night of weeping and wrestling, when he calls ' ' the " name of the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved !" But this is not worshipping by the anointed pillar, under the opened heavens, with the bright visions... | |
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