Genesi 35:10

10 E Iddio gli disse: Il tuo nome è Giacobbe: tu non sarai più nominato Giacobbe, anzi il tuo nome sarà Israele; e gli pose nome Israele.

Genesi 35:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 35:10

And God said unto him, thy name [is] Jacob
Which his parents gave him at his birth, and by, which he had been always called: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name;
not Jacob only, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech interpret it, but Israel also, and that more commonly and frequently, and not only he himself personally, but his posterity also: and he called his name Israel;
confirmed the name he had before given him, ( Genesis 32:28 ) ; and by this confirmation of it signifying, that as he had prevailed over his brother Esau, and escaped his hands, so he should prevail over all that rose up against him, and opposed him, even as he had power with God, and prevailed: though some think this name was only promised him before, but now actually given him; but then they take the angel that appeared wrestling with him in the likeness of a man to be a created angel, and that what he promised in the name of God was now made, good by God himself; there is great reason to believe that that angel was the increased one, the Son of God, as here also.

Genesi 35:10 In-Context

8 E Debora, balia di Rebecca, morì, e fu seppellita al disotto di Betel, sotto una quercia, la quale Giacobbe nominò: Quercia di pianto.
9 E Iddio apparve ancora a Giacobbe, quando egli veniva di Paddan-aram, e lo benedisse.
10 E Iddio gli disse: Il tuo nome è Giacobbe: tu non sarai più nominato Giacobbe, anzi il tuo nome sarà Israele; e gli pose nome Israele.
11 Oltre a ciò Iddio gli disse: Io son l’Iddio Onnipotente; cresci e moltiplica; una nazione, anzi una raunanza di nazioni, verrà da te, e re usciranno da’ tuoi lombi.
12 Ed io donerò a te, ed alla tua progenie dopo te, il paese che io diedi ad Abrahamo e ad Isacco.
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