On Prince Edivard Island obey his voice, provoke him not, for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him." Ex. xxiii:20, 21. It thus seems clear that the angel with whom Jacob wrestled was the Son of God . Secondly. What are we to understand by the wrestling in the text? Some make it visional and in a dream; others make it entirely spiritual, con¬ sisting in earnest prayer in the exercise of faith with full trust in the promises of the God of his fathers. Hanging on the promise and command of God , Jacob believed that he would be brought back in safety to his native country. The wrestling was not visionary or merely spiritual, it was corporeal. This is evident from the effect of it; he touches the hollow of Jacob's thigh and puts it out of joint, so that after the exercise is over he cannot walk but with the greatest difficulty. But the greatest diffi¬ culty of all seems to be how Jacob could have strength to prevail over the angel; for are the angels not said to excel in strength? One of them smote with death in one night one hundred and eighty- four thousand of the Assyrian army. What then must be the power and strength of the Jehovah angel with whom Jacob wrestled, and what an un¬ equal match Jacob must have been to struggle with the mighty angel Jehovah; yet he prevailed with the Lord of angels. This is truly wonderful, but the prophet solves the mysterious way in which his strength had power with God and prevailed: that it was God 's strength freely communicated to Jacob 263