Hos 12:4 | JFB | STEP | 4. the angel —the uncreated Angel of the Covenant, as God the Son appears in the Old Testament ( ). made supplication — : "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." he found him —The angel found Jacob, when he was fleeing from Esau into Syria: the Lord appearing to him "in Beth-el" ( ). What a sad contrast, that in this same Beth-el now Israel worships the golden calves! there he spake with us —"with us, " as being in the loins of our progenitor Jacob (compare , "They . . . we; " ). What God there spoke to Jacob appertains to us. God's promises to him belong to all his posterity who follow in the steps of his prayerful faith.

Hosea 12:4

4. the angel—the uncreated Angel of the Covenant, as God the Son appears in the Old Testament (Mal 3:1).

made supplication— Ge 32:26: "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."

he found him—The angel found Jacob, when he was fleeing from Esau into Syria: the Lord appearing to him "in Beth-el" (Ge 28:11-19; 35:1). What a sad contrast, that in this same Beth-el now Israel worships the golden calves!

there he spake with us—"with us," as being in the loins of our progenitor Jacob (compare Ps 66:6, "They . . . we;" Heb 7:9, 10). What God there spoke to Jacob appertains to us. God's promises to him belong to all his posterity who follow in the steps of his prayerful faith.