“And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.”
The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. The two images together — the sunrise and the limp — are the image of the transformed Jacob: he enters the new day as a new person, but the transformation has cost him something permanent. The application: the transformations that come from wrestling with God are not without cost. The limp is the mark of genuine encounter — proof that something real happened.
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