Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Hosea 12:4
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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 Psa 66:6, "They ... we;" He 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.
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