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He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
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Verse 28. Israel. This name was more honourable, and that by which his posterity were afterwards known; being called Israelites, and not Jacobites. God ratifies the title. Calmet. 35:10. It means a prince of God. Saint Jerome q. Hebrew ( Calmet.) or one standing upright, and contending victoriously with God, rectus Dei, yisrael. Bible.—Many have expounded it, a man seeing God; aiss-rae-al. Philo, and so forth
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