peni'el

Continued from Chapter 7 (Genesis 32:25-31) Christians use the biblical story of Jacob’s wrestling with an angel as proof of their belief in a triune deity. As with Genesis 18 and 19, they claim that this narrative proves God manifested Himself in human form. And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled with