The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( <4 ) *• The other Objection is from thefe Words, Jacob called the Name of the Place Peniel, for I havefeen God [Elohim] Face to Face, and my Life is preferv’d: And what then ? muft we invent Miracles in explaining the Sciiptuie in Tilings tnat are done by the Courfe of Nature ? Did not Jacob fee the ftrong. and the mighty Champion Face to Face, in a literal Senle, whereas feeing God Face to Face, is a figurative Expref- fion ? What the Patriarch did mean, was only to exprefs his Joy for his wonderful Efcape, and the Victory he had obtain’d unexpectedly. CHAP.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
