he saw In the narrative, as we have it, these words refer to the mysterious combatant with whom Jacob wrestled. But the omission of the subject both in this and the subsequent clause, in the Hebrew as well as in the English, leaves the meaning ambiguous. That it was Jacob, and not "the man," who by some trick of wrestling got the mastery, may have been the version of the story referred to in Hosea 12:4, "he had power over the angel, and prevailed."

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