“And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.”
And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said: Jacob! Jacob! He answered: here I am. The double naming — Jacob! Jacob! — and the hineni answer are the pattern of the most significant divine summons in the biblical narrative (Abraham in Genesis 22:11, Moses in Exodus 3:4, Samuel in 1 Samuel 3:10). The application: the posture of full availability — here I am — is the posture that is consistent from the wrestling at Peniel to the vision at Beersheba. Jacob's spiritual character at the end of his life is the same as it was at the moments of greatest testing.
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