And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Ver. 29. And he blessed him there.] That was a better thing to Jacob than to answer his curious request of knowing the angel's name. So when the disciples asked our Saviour, Act 1:6 "Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" "It is not for you to know the times," saith he, "but ye shall receive the Holy Ghost"; that is better for you, &c. Act 1:8 God sometimes doth not only "grant a man's prayer," but "fulfil his counsel." Psa 20:4 This if he do not, because we sometimes ask we know not what, yet some better thing we shall be sure of. "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and they shall be as if I had not cast them off l and I will hear them." Zec 10:6