Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 32:24

24 And Jacob was left alone : and there wrestled a man with him, untill the breaking of the day.

In some private place, it matters not on which side Iabbok, that he might more freely and ardently pour out his soul unto God.

An Angel, yea, the Angel of the Covenant, the Son of God, as it is plain from ver. 28, 30. and Hos. 12. 3, 4. who did here, as oft elsewhere, assume the shape and body of a man, that he might do this work: For this wrestling was real and corporeal in its nature, though it was also mystical and spiritual in its signification, as we shall see, and it was accompanied with an inward wrestling by ardent prayers joyned with tears, Hos. 12. 4.

Marginal references: Heb. as[illegible: 1+ letters]nding of the morning.