THEOSISGenesis 32:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.
וַיִּשְׁאַ֣ל יַעֲקֹ֗ב וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א שְׁמֶ֔ךָ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה תִּשְׁאַ֣ל לִשְׁמִ֑י וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֹת֖וֹ שָֽׁם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 12:8For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?
- Ex 24:10And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.
- Ex 24:11Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.
- Gen 16:13And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.
- Isa 6:5And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.
- Deut 5:24Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his greatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and have proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.
- John 1:18No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
- Ex 33:19He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.