Arcana Coelestia, Vol. VI

28. And he said, "Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou contended with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
29. And Jacob asked and said, "Tell I pray thy name." And he said, "Wherefore is this that thou dost ask after my name?" And he blessed him there.
30. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for I have seen God faces to faces, and my soul is delivered.
31. And the sun arose to him as he passed over Penuel, and he halted upon his thigh.
32. Therefore the sons of Israel eat not the nerve of that which was displaced, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, even unto this day, because he touched in the hollow of Jacob’s thigh the nerve of that which was displaced.

THE CONTENTS.

4232. The subject here treated of in the internal sense is the inversion of state in the natural, in order that good may be in the first place, and truth in the second. The implantation of truth in good is treated of (verses 1 to 23); and the wrestlings of the temptations which are then to be sustained (verses 24 to 32). At the same time the Jewish nation is also treated of, because although that nation could receive nothing of the church, it nevertheless represented the things of the church.

THE INTERNAL SENSE.

4233. Verses 1, 2. And Jacob went to his way, and the angels of God ran to meet him. And Jacob said when he saw them, This is the camp of God; and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. “And Jacob went to his way,” signifies the successive advance of truth toward its conjunction with spiritual and celestial good; “and the angels of God ran to meet him,” signifies enlightenment from good; “and Jacob said when he saw them, This is the camp of God,” signifies heaven; “and he