Hosea 12:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

The angel — Called Hosea 12:3, God; and Hosea 12:5, Jehovah, Lord of hosts. He was no created angel, but the Messiah; eternal God by nature and essence, angel by office, and voluntary undertaking. He wept — He prayed with tears from a sense of his own unworthiness, and with earnestness for the mercy he desired. He — God. Him — Jacob full of weariness, fears, and solicitude on his journey to Laban. He — God. With us — Being then in Jacob's loins.

Hosea 12:4

4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;