Research Jacob wrestles the angel
THE "PRESSURE OF THE APOSTOLIC COMMAND"
KATHERINE S. WHITNEY
From the January 1961 issue of The Christian Science Journal
In Genesis we read (32:25), "Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled." For a wrestler using material strength, such a handicap assured defeat. However, the day of more spiritual thinking was dawning on Jacob's thought. He was seeking spiritual blessings. He was now using divine power, and holding fast to the spiritual evangel, he had "power with God and with men" and prevailed.
“Persistency” CHARLES J. DEAN From the April 30, 1927 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
Then Jacob's heart was filled with a great fear, and the darkness of that fear, shutting in close about him, foretold a long night of struggle for spiritual freedom. For a long time he wrestled with the error, but without making any apparent headway. Then "the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint." Yet he fought bravely on, steadfast in his resistance to evil's claims. Many times during that night of struggle the suggestion probably came to him to give up, to yield to the temptation to surrender; but Jacob persisted, and fought on until the "corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, repentance, sensualism," as Mrs. Eddy in part defines "Jacob" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 589), yielded, and Jacob's consciousness became so filled with "the revelation of Science, in which the so-called material senses yield to the spiritual sense of Life and Love" (ibid.), that the testimony of material sense was silenced, and he was free.
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Section 4:
Kings of Israel and Judah
