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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
hint , that I have been able to discover , of any use being made of the stone at Padanaram . Jacob was favoured with a celestial vision at Mahanaim ; and at Peniel he wrestled with an angel , and obtained a blessing for himself and his posterity ; many opinions have been promulgated respecting the holy personage with whom
he had this extraordinary conflict ; some pronouncing him to be Gabriel , and others Raphael , or Michael the archangel ; but I am inclined to believe that he was a more divine spirit than either—even the Logos of God . This was the opinion of Novatianus , and of many of the Christian fathers . Thus Cyrilof Alexandriasaysin his Thesaurus .
, , , — " An angel strove with the patriarch Jacob , as we learn from the divine writings ; but the holy man detained him , saying , ' I will not let thee go unless thou bless me . ' Now this angel was the Deity himself ; as the patriarch confessed when he said , ' I have seen God face to face . '"
Arrived at Bethel , Jacob erected his altar on the ancient foundation stone , and God renewed the promise made to his fathers , Abraham and Isaac . — " Ancl God said unto him , I am God Almighty , be fruitful and multiply ; a nation , and a company of nations shall be of thee , and kings shall come out of thy loins . And the land which I gave Abraham
and Isaac , to thee will I give it , and to thy seed after thee . " * On his departure from Bethel to visit his father Isaac , Jacob took this stone with him , as he was now considered the patriarch of his race , to the city of Arbah , in Hebron , the land of Abraham , where he arrived in time to close the eyes of the aged patriarchhaving numbered 180 yearsand
, , he was buried by his two sons Esau and Jacob . Sleeping with his head upon this stone , Joseph , the beloved son of his father , was favoured with those prophetical visions or dreams which produced the unrelenting hatred of
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
hint , that I have been able to discover , of any use being made of the stone at Padanaram . Jacob was favoured with a celestial vision at Mahanaim ; and at Peniel he wrestled with an angel , and obtained a blessing for himself and his posterity ; many opinions have been promulgated respecting the holy personage with whom
he had this extraordinary conflict ; some pronouncing him to be Gabriel , and others Raphael , or Michael the archangel ; but I am inclined to believe that he was a more divine spirit than either—even the Logos of God . This was the opinion of Novatianus , and of many of the Christian fathers . Thus Cyrilof Alexandriasaysin his Thesaurus .
, , , — " An angel strove with the patriarch Jacob , as we learn from the divine writings ; but the holy man detained him , saying , ' I will not let thee go unless thou bless me . ' Now this angel was the Deity himself ; as the patriarch confessed when he said , ' I have seen God face to face . '"
Arrived at Bethel , Jacob erected his altar on the ancient foundation stone , and God renewed the promise made to his fathers , Abraham and Isaac . — " Ancl God said unto him , I am God Almighty , be fruitful and multiply ; a nation , and a company of nations shall be of thee , and kings shall come out of thy loins . And the land which I gave Abraham
and Isaac , to thee will I give it , and to thy seed after thee . " * On his departure from Bethel to visit his father Isaac , Jacob took this stone with him , as he was now considered the patriarch of his race , to the city of Arbah , in Hebron , the land of Abraham , where he arrived in time to close the eyes of the aged patriarchhaving numbered 180 yearsand
, , he was buried by his two sons Esau and Jacob . Sleeping with his head upon this stone , Joseph , the beloved son of his father , was favoured with those prophetical visions or dreams which produced the unrelenting hatred of