Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 32:26

26 And he said, Let me go ? for the day breaketh ▪ and he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me .

He saith this partly to shew the prevailing power of his prayer with God, and partly to quicken and encourage Iacob to persist in his conflict. Compare Exod. 32. 10. Deut. 9. 14.

And I am not willing that there should be any spectatours or witnesses of these things.

With the blessings which thou hast promised to Abraham and to me, among which one is protection in this hour of my danger. For Iacob now began to think that it was no man, nor ordinary Angel, that was with him, but God himself, as he saith ver. 30.

Marginal references: Hos. 12. 4.