OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 32:9

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Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’

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Verse 9. God of … Isaac. It is not true, therefore, that God never has the title of God of any man, while living, as some assert. Calmet. 31:42. Jacob addresses him by those very titles which he had assumed at Bethel. Calmet. 28:13. Bible.

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